“…Forty-four-plus years later, the DWS is still going strong, in no small part due to its ability to evolve with the field (Levenson, 2010). "Evolutionarily, it's very interesting because the meeting began at a time when we really didn't know the genetic contributors," says Ian Krantz, MD, Professor of Pediatrics (Human Genetics) and Director of the Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a co-organizer of the meeting.…”
Section: Endurance Through Evolutionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Born in Oakland, California, in 1926, Dr. Smith attended medical school at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, undertook his postdoctoral studies in the Department of Pediatrics, and subsequently launched his career as a pediatric endocrinologist. Ultimately, he determined that his patients' growth problems were related to birth defects and not conditions related to endocrinology, after which his focus changed (Levenson 2010;Wiedemann 1991).…”
“…Forty-four-plus years later, the DWS is still going strong, in no small part due to its ability to evolve with the field (Levenson, 2010). "Evolutionarily, it's very interesting because the meeting began at a time when we really didn't know the genetic contributors," says Ian Krantz, MD, Professor of Pediatrics (Human Genetics) and Director of the Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a co-organizer of the meeting.…”
Section: Endurance Through Evolutionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Born in Oakland, California, in 1926, Dr. Smith attended medical school at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, undertook his postdoctoral studies in the Department of Pediatrics, and subsequently launched his career as a pediatric endocrinologist. Ultimately, he determined that his patients' growth problems were related to birth defects and not conditions related to endocrinology, after which his focus changed (Levenson 2010;Wiedemann 1991).…”
“…The David W. Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis is held annually in honor of the legacy of David W. Smith, widely recognized as the father of dysmorphology (Levenson, 2010). The 2020 meeting was organized by Drs.…”
The 41st Annual David W. Smith Workshop on Malformation and Morphogenesis was scheduled to take place in Skamania, Washington, on September 11–16, 2020. Due to the COVID‐19 pandemic and the associated recommendations to avoid travel and congregation in large groups, this meeting took place differently from its original plan. Rather than bringing trainees, clinicians and researchers with an interest in congenital malformations and their underlying morphogenesis together for several days in a workshop with submitted presentations and research lectures, this meeting took place virtually. A 1 day online meeting was organized in order to allow trainees to present their work. This Conference Report includes the highest scoring abstracts submitted by trainees and presented at the 2020 virtual David W. Smith Workshop.
“…Together with colleague Kenneth Lyons Jones, MD, of UCSD, and other pediatricians and psychiatrists at the UW Medical School, he helped to define the morphological defects and developmental delays that can affect children born from women who were heavy users of alcohol . The first researcher to recognize trisomy 13 and the second to report on trisomy 18, Dr. Smith was also involved in the discovery of several conditions associated with birth defects, which included Aase-Smith, Smith-Lemli-Opitz, and Marshall-Smith syndromes (Levenson, 2010). Dr. Curry subsequently moved to Fresno, a city in the central valley of California, and found it to be a "daunting but amazing opportunity for program development.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Born in Oakland, California, in 1926, Dr. Smith attended medical school at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, undertook his postdoctoral studies in the Department of Pediatrics, and subsequently launched his career as a pediatric endocrinologist. Ultimately, he determined that his patients' growth problems were related to birth defects and not conditions related to endocrinology, after which his focus changed (Levenson 2010; Wiedemann 1991). …”
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