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Frieda S. Robscheit-Robbins (8 June 1893 – 18 December 1973) [1] [2] was a German-born American pathologist who worked closely with George Hoyt Whipple, conducting research into the use of diet in the treatment of long-term anemia, co-authoring 21 papers between 1925 and 1930.
William was born in Portsoy, Scotland, the sixth child of Dugald Cameron Boyd (a Presbyterian clergyman) and Eliza Marion (née Butcher) Boyd. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he graduated M.B. Ch.B. in 1908, M.D. in 1911, [1] and went on to become trained and accredited as a neurologist, psychiatrist, and pathologist.
Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) is a syndrome of the kidney that is characterized by a rapid loss of kidney function, [4] [5] (usually a 50% decline in the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) within 3 months) [5] with glomerular crescent formation seen in at least 50% [5] or 75% [4] of glomeruli seen on kidney biopsies.
Robbins serves on the board of the American Heart Association’s Stroke Council. [12] She is a past president of the Dysphagia Research Society, and has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Dysphagia Journal and the Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology. [citation needed]
Clinical pathology is a medical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the laboratory analysis of bodily fluids, such as blood, urine, and tissue homogenates or extracts using the tools of chemistry, microbiology, hematology, molecular pathology, and Immunohaematology.
The medical school's Frederick C. Robbins Society is named in his honor. His wife, Alice N. Robbins, died in 2016. She was the daughter of Nobel laureate John Howard Northrop. Robbins received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society in 1999. [7]
It serves patients, pathologists, and the public [1] by fostering and advocating best practices in pathology and laboratory medicine. [2] It is the world's largest association composed exclusively of pathologists certified by the American Board of Pathology, [3] and is widely considered
The Robbins theorem, in graph theory, is also named after him, as is the Whitney–Robbins synthesis, a tool he introduced to prove this theorem. The well-known unsolved problem of minimizing in sequential selection the expected rank of the selected item under full information, sometimes referred to as the fourth secretary problem , also bears ...