Flashcards: Pediatricians

Orlando Bosch Ávila (18 August 1926 – 27 April 2011) was a Cuban exile, former Central Intelligence Agency-backed operative, and head of Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, which the FBI has described as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization".

Willem Karel Dicke (15 February 1905, Dordrecht – 1962, De Bilt) was a Dutch paediatrician who was the first to develop the gluten-free diet and to show that in coeliac disease some types of flour cause relapse.

Zilda Arns Neumann (August 25, 1934 – January 12, 2010) was a Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker.

Professor Ivan Mitev Ivanov (Bulgarian: Иван Митев Иванов) (1924 - 2007) was a Bulgarian pediatrician and cardio rheumatologist who discovered the sixth heart tone, called the tone of Mitev.

Gabriel Gómez Michel (24 March 1965 – 22 or 23 September 2014) was a Mexican paediatrician, academic, and politician affiliated with the PRI; he served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Jalisco.

Professor Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PhD is a Rwandan pediatrician who returned to Rwanda in July of 1996, two years after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.

Pastor Oropeza Riera (12 October 1901 – 9 July 1991), born in Carora, Lara State, Venezuela, was a renowned pediatrician and one of the most prominent medical personalities in Venezuela.

Ahmed Ben Jaafar Ben Brahim Ibn Al Jazzar Al-Qayrawani (c. 895 – c. 979) (Arabic: أبو جعفر أحمد بن أبي خالد بن الجزار القيرواني‎‎), was an influential 10th-century Muslim physician who became famous for his writings on Islamic medicine.

Perla Dizon Santos Ocampo, MD ONS was a Filipino pediatrician.

Ernesto Guillermo Cofiño was born in Guatemala City on June 5, 1899.

Julio César Ramón Franco Gómez (born 17 April 1951) is a Paraguayan politician of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party.

Kenneth Lyen is a Singaporean paediatrician.

Dr Yarlagadda Nayudamma is a consultant paediatric surgeon based out of Guntur.

Professor Henrik Verder (born 1942) is a pediatrician and the inventor of the INSURE (Intubation Surfactant Extubation) method combined with nasal CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure).

Ibrahim Mohamed Fayad (Arabic: إبراهيم محمد فياض‎‎ [ ˈibrahim mohamed fayad]; 8 May 1931 – 31 January 2008) was an Egyptian senior pediatrician.

Alena Dernerová (born 13 September 1958) is a Czech politician and pediatric neurologist.

Liri Berisha, née Ramaj, is an Albanian pediatrician and president of the Albanian Children Foundation, and also an UNICEF ambassador.

Ahmed Samy Khalifa (14 November 1933 – 14 August 2015) was an Egyptian pediatric hematologist/oncologist.

Fe Villanueva del Mundo, OLD ONS OGH, (born Fé Primitiva del Mundo y Villanueva; November 27, 1909 – August 6, 2011) was a Filipino pediatrician.

Margaret Atieno Ogola (12 June 1958 – 21 September 2011) was the Kenyan author of the novel The River and the Source, and its sequel, I Swear by Apollo.