David Weyhe Smith

David W. Smith (David Smith Weyhe; born 24 September 1926 in Oakland, † September 1981 in Seattle ) was an American pediatrician and morphologist. According to him and his colleagues Syndrome Aase -Smith, Marshall Smith, Ruvalcaba - Myhre -Smith, Smith - Lemli -Opitz I and II, Smith - Theiler - Schachenmann and Weaver -Smith are named.

Biography

Smith began his career as a pediatrician. In 1958 he became a professor of pediatrics at the Medical Faculty of the University of Wisconsin and left this institution in 1966, to occupy the chair at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he remained for the rest of his career. Smith received worldwide fame and recognition for his work in the field of dysmorphology. He was a good friend of his Norwegian colleagues Dagfinn Aarskog.

He published some 200 works and six monographs, including his classical detection schemes for human malformations, which are considered key document in this area.