Lotte Strauss

Lotte Strauss ( born April 15, 1913 in Nuremberg; † 4 July 1985) was a pathologist. According to it, an allergic vasculitis, Churg -Strauss syndrome is named.

Education and work

Your begun in Germany studying medicine she sat in 1937 continued in Siena, where he took her medical exam from. Already during her studies in Siena, she developed a strong interest in laboratory medicine issues and worked on the bacteriological institute in Siena.

A year later, she emigrated to the USA where she was hired in 1938 as a microbiologist at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City and remained there until 1941. In the same position she worked until 1949 at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, where she conducted research together with Jacob Churg and described with this Churg -Strauss syndrome. After three years' time as an assistant in the pathology department of Lebanon Hospital ( Bronx ), she returned in 1953 to the Mount Sinai Hospital as a pathologist with its own Department of Pediatric Pathology back and taught here by the habilitation in 1966 as Head of Chair of Pathology, until her death.

In addition, they had completed a period of study at Children's Hospital Boston at Sidney Farber to educate yourself in the field of pediatric pathology. She had moreover a teaching position at Columbia University (1958-1966) and was consulting pathologist at Elmhurst City Hospital and a member of the most important pathological societies of America.

She received an honorary doctorate from the shaft Augustine University in Peru and worked on issues of perinatal pathology for the national health authority.

Performance

Lotte Strauss can be regarded as a pioneer in the field of pediatric and perinatal pathology. She was a founding member of the American Society for Pediatric Pathology and led this scientific branch at Mount Sinai Hospital, where she advised pediatricians, gynecologists and neonatologists. She supervised more than 500 students within the pediatric pathology, 20 specialists of the subject emerged from their school.

In more than 100 scientific papers and research she has been dealing with the ultrastructure of the placenta in various diseases and intrauterine infections. The lifelong collaboration with Jacob Churg refers to her interest in exploring inflammatory vascular disease.

Works

• Allergic Granulomatosis, Allergic angiitis, and periarteritis nodosa ( with J. Churg ). In: Am J Pathol, 27 (1951) 277
• Pulmonary vasculitis ( with KV Lieberman, J. Churg ). In: Fishman AP ( ed ): Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders. 2nd ed New York, 1988, 2: 1138