Judith Goslin Hall
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Dr. '''Judith Goslin Hall''', [[Order of Canada|CM]] ([[1939]]- ) is a [[pediatrician]], [[clinical geneticist]] and [[dysmorphology|dysmorphologist]] who is a dual citizen of the [[United States]] and [[Canada]]. She goes formally as Judith G. Hall and informally as Judy Hall.
The daughter of a minister, she was born in [[Boston, Mass.]] and spent her childhood in [[New England]], the midwestern U.S. and [[Seattle]]. She graduated from high school in Seattle and then attended [[Wellesley College]] in Wellesley, Mass. from which she earned her [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1961.
She went to medical school in Seattle at the [[University of Washington]] (UW) from which she received an [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] degree in 1966. The same year she was also awarded an [[Master of Science|MS]] degree in Genetics from [[University of Washington|UW]] for coursework and research done with Dr. [[Arno Motulsky]] in [[medical genetics]].
Dr. Hall then went to [[Johns Hopkins University]] in [[Baltimore]] where she did postdoctoral [[Fellowship (medicine)|fellowship]]s in Medical Genetics with Dr. [[Victor McKusick]] and in Pediatric [[Endocrinology]] with Dr. [[Robert Blizzard]]. She then trained in [[pediatrics]] at [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]] from 1969 to 1971.
In 1972 she returned to the University of Washington School of Medicine and was given a joint appointment in the Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine as, successively, Assistant, Associate and Full Professor. She also gained additional depth of knowledge concerning [[congenital malformation]]s by working in Seattle with the pioneer [[dysmorphology|dysmorphologist]], Dr. [[David W. Smith]] (1926-1981).
In 1981, Hall was named Professor of Medical Genetics at the [[University of British Columbia]] and the Director of the Genetics Services for [[British Columbia]]. From 1990-2000, she was also Professor and Head of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia and [[BC Children's Hospital]].
In 1988 she received a Killam Senior Fellowship for a sabbatical year at [[Oxford University]], UK. During 2001, she was a Distinguished Fellow at [[Christ College]], [[Cambridge University]], UK.
Dr. Hall's research has been far-ranging in the areas of congenital malformations including [[neural tube defect]]s, the genetics of [[short stature]], the mechanisms of disease such as [[mosaicism]] and [[imprinting]], the natural history of genetic disorders, the genetics of [[connective tissue disorder]]s such as [[arthrogryposis]], and monozygotic (identical) [[twin]]s.[http://www.ecmaj.com/pdfs/hall.pdf]
She has contributed to the knowledge of a number of syndromes. Her name [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/533.html] is associated with the Hall type of pseudoachondroplasia (a severe form of dwarfism with short limbs) and the Hall-Pallister syndrome ([[hamartoma]] in the [[hypothalamus]] tract, [[hypopituitarism]], imperforate anus and [[polydactyly]]).
Dr. Hall has received a number of honors and in 1998 was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] as "a leader and world authority in both genetics and pediatrics" and having "contributed to the development of resources and services essential to coping with genetic illnesses" (see [http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=3979]).
==Quote==
"To me, high achievement is not the number of publications but being a successful female in a world of professional men. And by that I mean caring more about peacemaking and nurturing the individual and the environment than success, winning, owning or directing."[http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=368]
==External links==
*[http://www.ecmaj.com/pdfs/hall.pdf Biography]
*[http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=368 Scientist Profile]
*[http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/533.html Biography] on [http://www.whonamedit.com/ Who Named It] site
* {{cite web|url=http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=haan&t=96823&d=1482|title=Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry|accessdate=March 20|accessyear=2006}}
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