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David Weyhe Smith
American paediatrician and dysmorphologist, born September 24, 1926, Oakland, California; died September 1981, Seattle.
Associated eponyms:
Aase-Smith syndrome
A familial deformity syndrome.
Bannayan's syndrome
A very rare familial disease with a predilection in males. It manifests with symmetrical macrocephaly without ventricular enlargement, mild neurological dysfunction, and postnatal growth retardation.
Gardner-Silengo-Wachtel syndrome
Distinct dysmorphy syndrome with male pseudohermaphroditismus, multiple malformations and poor prospects of survival.
Genee-Wiedemann syndrome or disease
An extremely rare genetic multiple congenital anomalies syndrome.
Greig's syndrome I
A syndrome affecting the development of the skull, face, and limbs
Marshall-Smith syndrome
A syndrome of motor and mental retardation, accelerated skeletal maturation, failure to thrive, and abnormal facies.
Opitz' trigonocephaly syndrome
A dysmorphy syndrome with trigonocephaly as the most
conspiccuous feature.
Ruvalcaba's syndrome
A Distinct syndrome in the group of congenital skeletal disturbances.
Ruvalcaba-Myhre-Smith syndrome
A syndrome combining the principal elements of the Sotos syndrome (cerebral gigantism) with intestinal polyposis and pigmented lesions (café-au-lait spots) on the penis.
Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome I (David W. Smith)
A syndrome of multiple abnormalities, comprising mental retardation, microcephaly, growth retardation, hypoplastic external genitalia and a characteristic facies with micrognathia and anteverted nostrils.
Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome II (David W. Smith)
A syndrome similar to the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome I which, in addition, is characterised by pseudohermaphroditism and frequent early death.
Smith-Theiler-Schachenmann syndrome (David W. Smith)
A developmental disorder affecting both sexes, characterized by severe costovertebral malformations, mental deficiency; and orofacial defects, short hand palate with a central hole, absent soft palate, absent uvula, and glossoptosis.
Weaver-Smith syndrome
A syndrome of large birth size, accelerated growth and skeletal maturation, associated with limb, craniofacial, neurological, and other abnormalities.
Biography:
David Weyhe Smith had a distinguished career in paediatrics. He became professor of paediatrics at the Univesity of Wisconsin Medical School, which he had jlined in 1958, and in 1966 he moved to the chair of the University of Washington, Seattle, where he spent the remainder of his career. Smith achieved world-wide recognition and esteem for his work in dysmorphology. He was a friende of the Norwegian physician Dagfinn Aarskog (born 1928).
He published nearly 200 papers and six monographs, including his classic Recognisable Patterns of Human Malformation which is regarded as the key work in this field. Smith had a great influence as a teacher and several of his postgraduate students have achieved positions of eminence.
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