Andrea Prader

Andrea Prader ( born December 23, 1919 in Samedan, Graubünden, † June 3, 2001 in Zurich ) was a Swiss pediatrician and endocrinologist.

Life

Andrea Prader attended elementary school and high school in Zurich. He then studied at the University of Medicine. After graduating in 1944, he got a job in 1947 as an assistant physician at Children's Hospital Zurich. In 1950 he obtained the Specialist title pediatrics. He continued his studies at Bellevue Hospital in New York continued. Prader habilitated in 1952 and in 1962 was appointed to the chair of pediatrics and as successor by Guido Fanconi Head of the Children's Hospital. He held until 1986 this position.

Research

Prader made ​​fundamental studies to the growth and development of healthy children. His research interests are thereby extended to endocrinological diseases, metabolic disorders, medical genetics, and the pathophysiology of steroid synthesis. His name is inseparably connected with the named along with Heinrich Willi after him Prader -Willi syndrome - connected - a congenital genetic disease with congenital muscle weakness, mental retardation and obesity. He also developed the so-called Orchidometer to measure the size of the testicles. In addition, he was involved in the discovery of the hereditary hereditary fructose intolerance and pseudo - vitamin D deficiency. 1962 and 1971 he was president of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology. From 1972 to 1974 Andrea Prader was president of the Swiss Society of Pediatrics, whose honorary member, he was later also.

Honors and Awards

Prader was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1968. The honorary doctorate was from the University of Tokushima him (1981 ), the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, the University of Lyon ( per 1987) and awarded the University of Zaragoza ( 1988). He also received the 1966 Otto Naegeli Prize, 1969, the Medal of the University of Turku, 1981, the Berthold Medal of the German Society for Endocrinology, 1985, the Aschoff - Medal of the Medical Society of Freiburg, and in 1988 the Otto - Heubner Prize of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine.

Works (selection)

• Intersexuality ... Springer -Verlag, 1957. 402 S. habilitation thesis, Zurich
• Contribution to the knowledge of the development of the notochord in humans. A. Kundig, Geneva, 1945. P. 34 Mediz dissertation. Faculty, University of Zurich