Dorothy Hansine Andersen, MD — diagnostic and therapeutic services (pathology), pediatric medicine
Courtesy Archives & Special Collections, Columbia University Health Sciences Division
Dr. Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901–1963) was the first physician to identify cystic fibrosis and, together with her research team, created the first tests to diagnose it. She also spent nearly a decade examining glycogen storage disease and studied cardiac malformations in great detail. She collected many specimens for her pathological research and left a valuable catalog of disease used to pioneer new surgical treatments.
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