May 2/23
🍁 VHL NL, NB, ON 1986 Dr. Jane Green
Please note: I don't have an academic biomedical background in any medical area. Many VHLers from Newfoundland have told me that they've received help from VHL geneticist Dr. Jane Green, Memorial University. As a patient and volunteer/advocate, I also get the impression that Dr. Green was very important to the field of VHL in internationally!
Article re VHL families in NL, 1986:
"There was a large family with VHL who “originated in Newfoundland but ha[d] some members who live in New Brunswick and Ontario. A collaborative investigation was begun in 1982 to document the number of affected members and the extent of their disease and to improve management of the disease…”
Von Hippel-Lindau disease in a Newfoundland kindred. CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 134: 2, 1986/1/1, Jane S Green, MI Bowmer, GJ Johnson. Full free full article scanned at PubMed
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There are many entries related to Dr. Green and other genetic family diseases, but many are only abstracts/summaries. For example:
“Dr. Green had been compiling pedigrees on families in which there was a hereditary loss of sight since the 70’s… In 1978, together with an ophthalmologist - “set up a weekly ocular genetics clinic at Health Sciences Centre, or the General Hospital as it was called then…” - Spotlight on Retinitis Pigmentosa, 2018
N.L.-born woman raising awareness about genetic mutation that causes cancer. CBC News, Mar 22, 2023
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