| Albert Touraine | |||||
| Nationality: | French | ||||
| Birth Date: | 11 November 1883 | ||||
| Birth Place: | Paris, France | ||||
| Education: | University of Paris | ||||
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Albert Touraine (11 November 1883 - 3 May 1961)[1] was a French dermatologist.
He studied medicine at the University of Paris as a pupil of Eugène Apert and Émile Achard. In 1912 he received his doctorate with the thesis Les anticorps syphilitiques : essais de séro-agglutination de la syphilis.[2] In 1932 he was named senior physician at the Hôpital Saint-Louis.
Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (or "Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome") is named for him.Touraine-Solente-Gole syndrome is also named for him.[3]
For eighteen years he was editor of the journal Annales de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie. In 1945 he was elected as a member of the Académie de médecine.[4]