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In the spring of 1950, Dr. Lawson Wilkins made a presentation at the Sixth International Congress of Pediatrics in Zurich that gave birth to the new field of pediatric endocrinology. In this intimate biography, you will discover why this remarkable medical pioneer is remembered not only as a groundbreaking medical pioneer but also as a great scientist, inspiring educator, caring friend-and much more. Betsy McMaster, the doctor's daughter, remembers that momentous spring from her perspective as a young woman touring Europe with her parents, recalling a meeting in Paris with a young man who would become like family to her. She also provides biographical details about her father and reveals memories of a gregarious character who worked hard but made time to enjoy life with family and friends. In the second part of the book, Claude Jean Migeon, MD, recollects meeting with the Wilkins family in Paris as a pediatric student who had been accepted to work under Dr. Wilkins's tutelage at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He tells of the major role Dr. Wilkins played in both his career and personal life and describes his mentor's extraordinary contributions to the field of pediatric endocrinology from the perspective of a number of his colleagues.

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Claude Jean Migeon, MD, is a native of France. In 1950, he came to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore with a Fulbright Fellowship to study and work with Dr. Lawson Wilkins in the nascent field of pediatric endocrinology. He went on to train in steroid biochemistry with Leo T. Samuels at the University of Utah and then returned to Johns Hopkins as a member of the pediatric faculty, eventually succeeding Dr. Wilkins as the director of the Pediatric Endocrine Clinic. The author of more than three hundred publications about children with growth and development abnormalities, his area of expertise is the function of the testes and adrenal gland. In honor of his extraordinary mentor and close friend, he authored the book Remembering Doctor Lawson Wilkins: A Pioneer of Pediatric Endocrinology along with Wilkins's daughter, Betsy McMaster.

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