Polish dermatologist
Stefania Jabłońska
Stefania Jabłońska with Alfred Marchionini
Born Szela Ginzburg
(1920-09-07 ) 7 September 1920Died 8 May 2017(2017-05-08) (aged 96) Nationality Polish Alma mater Known for Awards 1985 Robert Koch Prize Scientific career Fields Medicine (Dermatology )Institutions
Stefania Jabłońska (born Szela Ginzburg ; 7 September 1920 – 8 May 2017) was a Polish physician and professor specializing in dermatology . She worked at the Medical University of Warsaw .
In 1972, she theorized the association of human papilloma viruses with skin cancer in epidermodysplasia verruciformis .[ 1] [ 2]
In 1978, Jabłońska and Gerard Orth at the Pasteur Institute discovered HPV-5 in skin cancer.[ 3] Jabłońska was awarded the 1985 Robert Koch Prize .[ 4]
She was a recipient of the National Order of Merit and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta .[ 5]
Biography
She was born as Szela Ginzburg in 1920 in Mogilev , present-day Belarus, and at the age of six moved to Warsaw .[ 6] Later known as Stefania Jabłońska, she earned her high school diploma in 1937 in Warsaw, where she began to study medicine in the same year at the Medical University of Warsaw . In 1938 she moved to the University of Lviv and a year later to Kyrgyz Technical University , where she graduated in 1942 with a medical degree . She then served two years in the military.[ 7]
She specialized in dermatology , worked for a year at the Soviet Science Academy in the Department of Pathology, and in 1946 in the Department of Dermatology of the Medical University of Warsaw. With a grant from the World Health Organization in 1949, she spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania .[ 8] [ 9]
Jabłońska earned a Doctor of Science in 1950. In 1951 she qualified as a professor . Jabłońska was appointed to head dermatology at the Medical University of Warsaw in 1954. She became professor emeritus in 1990. She died on 8 May 2017, age 96.[ 1]
Awards and honors
A partial list of Jabłońska's honors and awards.
State decorations
Orders and awards
Membership
Honorary
Non-dermatological
Dermatological
Honor / award
Location
Date
Notes
Honorary membership in the American Dermatological Association
United States
1964
Honorary membership in the American Society for Investigative Dermatology
United States
1974
Honorary membership in the Association des Dermatologistes et Syphilidologues de Langue Francaise
France
1964
Honorary membership in the Argentinian Dermatological Association
Argentina
1980
Honorary membership in the Austrian Dermatological Association
Austria
1959
Honorary membership in the Belgium Dermatological Association
Belgium
1966
Honorary membership in the Berlin Dermatological Association
Germany
1956
Honorary membership in the Brazilian Dermatological Association
Brazil
1965
Honorary membership in the British Dermatological Association
United Kingdom
1958
Honorary membership in the Bulgarian Dermatological Association
Bulgaria
1964
Honorary membership in the Canadian Dermatological Association
Canada
1984
Honorary membership in the Danish Dermatological Association
Denmark
1964
Honorary membership in the Finnish Dermatological Association
Finland
1966
Honorary membership in the French Dermatological Association
France
1964
Honorary membership in the German Dermatological Association
Germany
1962
Honorary membership in the Georgian Dermatological Association
Georgia
1974
Honorary membership in the Greek Dermatological Association
Greece
1964
Honorary membership in the Hungarian Dermatological Association
Hungary
1969
Honorary membership in the Indian Dermatological Association
India
1969
Honorary membership in the International Society of Tropical Dermatology
1982
Honorary membership in the Israel Dermatological Association
Israel
1960
Honorary membership in the Italian Dermatological Association
Italy
1972
Honorary membership in the Japanese Dermatological Association
Japan
1980
Honorary membership in the Kiev Dermatological Association
Ukraine
1974
Honorary membership in the Mexican Dermatological Association
Mexico
1978
Honorary membership in the Mexican Academy of Dermatology
Mexico
1978
Honorary membership in the Munich Dermatological Association
Germany
1959
Honorary membership in the Norwegian Dermatological Association
Norway
1974
Honorary membership in the Pacific Dermatological Association
1974
Honorary membership in the Swedish Dermatological Association
Sweden
1971
Honorary membership in the Styrian Dermatological Association
Austria
1978
Honorary membership in the Tchekoslovak Dermatological Association
Czechoslovakia
1967
Honorary membership in the Thuring Dermatological Association
Austria
1964
Honorary membership in the Yugoslavian Dermatological Association
Yugoslavia
1957
Honorary membership in the Venezuela Dermatological Association
Venezuela
1963
References
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