Judith Goslin Hall
American-Canadian pediatrician and geneticist
Judith Goslin Hall (born July 3, 1939) is a pediatrician, clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist who is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada.
Early life and education
The daughter of a minister, Judith Goslin Hall was born on July 3, 1939, in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Garfield 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, from which she received an MD, from which she received an MD degree in 1966. She was also awarded an MS degree in Genetics from the University of Washington. She did her Pediatric training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and did her fellowships in Medical Genetics and Pediatric Endocrinology.
Career
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 malformations by working in Seattle with the pioneer dysmorphologist, David W. Smith (1926–1981).
In 1981, Hall was named professor of medical genetics at the University of British Columbiadegree in 1966.
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