What is Helen B. Taussig's middle name?
B.
What is Helen B. Taussig's full name?
Helen Brooke Taussig
Helen B. Taussig nickname(s):
Mother of pediatric cardiology
Helen B. Taussig date of birth:
May 24, 1898
How old was Helen B. Taussig when died?
87
Where was Helen B. Taussig born?
Cambridge, Massachusetts
When did Helen B. Taussig die?
May 20, 1986
Where did Helen B. Taussig die?
Kennentt Square, Pennsylvania
Why did Helen B. Taussig die?
Automobile Accident
What religion is Helen B. Taussig?
Unitarian
What is Helen B. Taussig's ethnicity?
White
What is Helen B. Taussig nationality?
American
Where did Helen B. Taussig go to school?
Cambridge School for Girls, Cambridge, MA (1917)
Where did Helen B. Taussig go to university?
Radcliffe College (attended, 1917-19), BA, University of California at Berkeley (1921), Harvard University (attended), Boston University (attended), MD, Johns Hopkins University (1927)
What is Helen B. Taussig's occupation?
Doctor
Who is Helen B. Taussig's father?
Frank William Taussig (economist professor at Harvard, b. 1859, d. 1940)
Who is Helen B. Taussig's mother?
Edith Thomas Guild (botanist, m. 29-Jun-1888, d. circa 1909 tuberculosis)
Helen B. Taussig brother(s):
William Guild Taussig (b. 1889)
Helen B. Taussig sister(s):
Catherine Crombie Taussig, Mary Guild Taussig Henderson
Short Biography
Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. Notably, she is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot (the most common cause of blue baby syndrome). This concept was applied in practice as a procedure known as the Blalock-Taussig shunt. The procedure was developed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, who were Taussig's colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.