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Grange S. Coffin
American paediatrician, born January 18, 1923, Kiston, North Carolina.
Associated eponyms:
Coffin's syndrome II
A familial syndrome of low birth weight, retarded growth and motor development, mental retardation, slender habitus, and characteristic facies.
Coffin-Lowry syndrome
A familial syndrome characterised by dwarfism and severe mental retardation, muscle weakness, unusual prominence of the breastbone, lax ligamenta, vertebral anomalies, hypotonia, and peculiar facies and digits.
Coffin-Siris syndrome
A familial syndrome of mental retardation associated with coarse features, scoliosis, pigeon breast, hypoplasia or absence of the fifth fingers and toenails and short distal phalanges.
Biography:
Grange S. Coffin qualified in medicine at Columbia University, New York, in 1947. He trained in paediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and held faculty appointments at the University of Maryland before moving to the University of California medical school, San Francisco. He was appointed assistant professor of clinical paediatrics in 1963, and later became associate professor. Coffin now (July 2004) lives in Berkeley, California.
Bibliography:
- Peter Beighton & Gretha Beighton:
G. S. Coffin. In: The Man Behind the Syndrome. Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1986. Page 207.
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