Victor Dubowitz (born 6 August 1931) is an English neurologist, professor emeritus at the Imperial College, London, author of several research papers and books on neurological disorders in children.
His wife, Lilly Dubowitz (1930-2016) was a paediatrician, and together, they came up with the Dubowitz Score to estimate gestational age.
Career history:
1958 – 1960 — clinical assistant at Queen Mary's Hospital
1960 – 1961 — lecturer in clinical pathology at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases
1961 – 1965 — lecturer (1965 – 1967 senior lecturer) in child health, University of Sheffield
1967 – 1972 — reader in child health and developmental neurology, University of Sheffield
1972 – 1996 — professor (since 1996 professor emeritus) of paediatrics, University of London
Other functions:
1972 – present — honorary consultant paediatrician at the Hammersmith Hospital
1972 – 1996 — Director of Muscle Research Centre
1999 – 2003 — Director of Therapeutic Studies, European Neuromuscular Centre (ENMC), The Netherlands
President of:
1992 – 1994 — British Paediatric Neurology Association
1993 – 1997 — European Paediatric Neurology Society
1995 – present — World Muscle Society
1997 – 2000 — Medical Art Society
Awards:
1987 — Jean Hunter Prize of the Royal College of Physicians
1972 — Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
2000 — Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
1980 — Commander of the Order of Constantine the Great
1982 — Arvo Ylppö Gold Medal, Finland
1991 — Gaetano Conte Gold Medal, Italy
1997 — Cornelia de Lange Medal, The Netherlands
2007 — James Spence Gold Medal, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
2009 — Inaugural Gold Medal, Jennifer Trust for Spinal Muscular Atrophy
2011 — Peter Emil Becker Prize, German Speaking Paediatric Neurology Society
Two medical conditions are named after him:
Dubowitz syndrome — a rare genetic disorder characterized by microcephaly, growth retardation and a characteristic facial appearance of unknown genetic cause.
Dubowitz disease — a particular phenotype of spinal muscular atrophy, a hereditary motor neuron disease affecting mainly infants and children.
Also, a medical and research institution at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, UK, bears his name (the Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre).
