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Gunnar B. Stickler
German-American paediatrician, born June 13, 1925, Peterskirchen, Bavaria..
Associated eponyms:
Stickler's syndrome
A fairly common progressive disease of connective tissue with onset at birth affecting ears, eyes, and joints.
Biography:
Gunnar B. Stickler attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich and studied medicine at the universities of Vienna, Erlangen and Munich. He graduated at Munich in 1949 and two years later emigrated to the USA. Working in the Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota, he specialised in paediatrics, becoming professor at the Graduate School. In 1973 he was appointed professor and chairman of pediatrics at the Mayo Medical School.
In 1960, a twelve year old boy was examined at the Mayo Foundation. The boy had bony enlargements of several joints and was extremely short sighted. His mother was totally blind. Dr Stickler discovered that there were other members of the family with similar symptoms; the first family member having been seen by Charles Mayo (1865-1939) in 1887. This prompted Dr Sticker to study the family. With colleagues he worked to define the condition, the results being published in June 1965. Dr Stickler tentatively named the condition hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy. Since the 1980's, this condition has been known world wide as Stickler's syndrome.
Bibliography:
- Elias Cohen and Gunnar B. Stickler:
Stickler. Absence of albuminlike serum proteins in turtles.
Science, Washington, 1958. 127: 1392.
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