LaVonne Bergstrom explained

LaVonne Bergstrom
Birth Name:LaVonne Bernadene Bergstrom
Birth Date:October 17, 1928
Birth Place:Erskine, Minnesota
Death Date:January 10, 2001 (age 72)
Death Place:Los Angeles, California
Occupation:Surgeon, otolaryngologist, professor
Known For:President, American Auditory Society (1987)

LaVonne Bernadene Bergstrom (October 17, 1928 – January 10, 2001) was an American surgeon, otolaryngologist, and medical school professor. She was president of the American Auditory Society in 1987.

Early life and education

Bergstrom was born in Erskine, Minnesota and raised in Wadena, Minnesota, the daughter of Harry Bergstrom and Clara Bjornson Bergstrom. Her father was a store manager, born in Sweden. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from University of Minnesota in 1950, and a medical degree from Minnesota's School of Medicine in 1957.[1]

Career

After medical school, Bergstrom was commissioned as a Presbyterian medical missionary,[2] and spent three years as a physician in Embudo, New Mexico.[3] From 1961 to 1965, she was medical director of the Sangre de Cristo Medical Unit in San Luis, Colorado.[4] [5] Both the Embudo and Sangre de Cristo sites were mission programs operated by the Presbyterian Board of National Missions.[6]

Bergstrom completed a residency in otolaryngology at the University of Colorado in the mid-1960s. In 1975, she joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and in 1979 she achieved the rank of professor there. She specialized in pediatric otolaryngology and congenital syndromes affecting hearing. Rosenberg-Bergstrom syndrome, a genetic condition which includes renal insufficiency and deafness, is named for her and for her colleague Alan L. Rosenberg. She was associate director of the Hope for Hearing Medical Foundation.[7] She retired from UCLA in 1989.

Bergstrom was on the board of the Colorado Medical Audiology Workshop when it was established in 1974. She was the first woman physician to become a full member of the American Otological Society, inducted in 1977.[8] Also in 1977, she was elected to membership in the Triological Society, and won the society's Fowler Award for her thesis on osteogenesis imperfecta. She served as president of the American Auditory Society in 1987.

Publications

Bergstrom's research was published in academic journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Laryngoscope,[9] Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology,[10] The Journal of Pediatrics,[11] Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology,[12] and Clinics in Dermatology.

Personal life

Bergstrom lived in Manhattan Beach, California, in her later years.[30] She had Pick's disease, a form of dementia, for more than a decade before she died in 2001, at the age of 72, in Los Angeles, California.

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Notes and References

  1. Koempel . Jeffrey A . Don . Debra M. . Scholes . Melissa A. . Chan . Kenny H. . 2023-06-21 . Women Surgeons Who Contributed to the Development of Pediatric Otolaryngology in the United States . The Laryngoscope . 134 . 1 . 40–46 . en . 10.1002/lary.30838 . 0023-852X. free . 37341501 .
  2. News: 1958-09-06 . Medical Missionary . 9 . The Minneapolis Star . 2023-11-29 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: 1961-07-05 . Pastor, Wife to Entertain Circle . 42 . The Minneapolis Star . 2023-11-29 . Newspapers.com.
  4. News: 1964-09-27 . Movie on Leprosy Will be Shown at Church . 14 . The Santa Fe New Mexican . 2023-11-29 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: Young . Gayle . 1988-01-24 . Tonsillectomies are less common . 32 . Scrantonian Tribune . 2023-11-30 . Newspapers.com.
  6. News: 1961-10-05 . Eavesdropping . 5 . Rio Grande Sun . 2023-11-29 . Newspapers.com.
  7. News: 1977-01-13 . Guild of Hope to Seat Chief . 315 . The Los Angeles Times . 2023-11-29 . Newspapers.com.
  8. Alyono . Jennifer C. . Jackler . Robert K. . Chandrasekhar . Sujana S. . April 2018 . Women of the American Otological Society . Otology & Neurotology . en . 39 . 4S . S69–S80 . 10.1097/MAO.0000000000001707 . 29533377 . 1531-7129.
  9. Bergstrom . Lavonne . October 1982 . Laryngeal papillomatosis: Recurrence after 33-year remission . The Laryngoscope . en . 92 . 10 . 1160–1163 . 10.1288/00005537-198910000-00011 . 24850375 . 0023-852X.
  10. Bergstrom . LaVonne . March 1980 . Pendred's Syndrome with Atypical Features . Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology . en . 89 . 2 . 135–139 . 10.1177/000348948008900209 . 7369648 . 36051364 . 0003-4894.
  11. Stewart . Janet M. . Bergstrom . LaVonne . 1971-01-01 . Familial hand abnormality and sensori-neural deafness: A new syndrome . The Journal of Pediatrics . 78 . 1 . 102–110 . 10.1016/S0022-3476(71)80270-6 . 5539065 . 0022-3476.
  12. Bergstrom . LaVonne . Tessier . Annette . 1983-01-01 . Early childhood education: a means to earlier diagnosis of hearing impairment in the multihandicapped . International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology . 5 . 2 . 167–172 . 10.1016/S0165-5876(83)80021-4 . 6192106 . 0165-5876.
  13. Rosenberg . Alan L. . Bergstrom . LaVonne . Troost . B. Todd . Bartholomew . Bruce A. . 1970-04-30 . Hyperuricemia and Neurologic Deficits: A Family Study . New England Journal of Medicine . en . 282 . 18 . 992–997 . 10.1056/NEJM197004302821802 . 5436556 . 0028-4793.
  14. Sando . I. . Bergstrom . L. . Wood . R. P. . Hemenway . W. G. . 1970-06-01 . Temporal Bone Findings in Trisomy 18 Syndrome . Archives of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery . en . 91 . 6 . 552–559 . 10.1001/archotol.1970.00770040782012 . 0886-4470.
  15. Bergstrom . LaVonne . Hemenway . William G. . Barnhart . Roger A. . February 1970 . VII Rhinocerebral and Otologic Mucormycosis . Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology . en . 79 . 1 . 70–81 . 10.1177/000348947007900107 . 75711147 . 0003-4894.
  16. Bergstrom . L. . Neblett . L. M. . Hemenway . W. G. . 1972-08-01 . Otologic Manifestations of Acrocephalosyndactyly . Archives of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery . en . 96 . 2 . 117–123 . 10.1001/archotol.1972.00770090191005 . 0886-4470.
  17. Bergstrom . LaVonne . Jenkins . Pat . Sando . Isamu . English . Gerald M.. July 1973 . Hearing Loss in Renal Disease: Clinical and Pathological Studies . Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology . en . 82 . 4 . 555–576 . 10.1177/000348947308200413 . 4578644 . 5179194 . 0003-4894.
  18. Bergstrom . LaVonne . Neblett . Lewis M. . Sando . Isamu . Hemenway . William G. . Harrison . Gerald D. . 1974-08-01 . The Lightning-Damaged Ear . Archives of Otolaryngology . 100 . 2 . 117–121 . 10.1001/archotol.1974.00780040123008 . 4843111 . 0003-9977.
  19. Bergstrom . Lavonne . Stewart . Janet M. . Kenyon . Barbara . November 1974 . External auditory atresia and the deleted chromosome . The Laryngoscope . en . 84 . 11 . 1905–1917 . 10.1002/lary.5540841108 . 4437241 . 33963811 . 0023-852X.
  20. Sando . Isamu . Leiberman . Alberto . Bergstrom . LaVonne . Izumi . Soji . Wood . Raymond P. . July 1975 . Temporal Bone Histopathological Findings in Trisomy 13 Syndrome . Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology . en . 84 . 4_suppl . 2–20 . 10.1177/00034894750840S401 . 8710521 . 0003-4894.
  21. Bergstrom . Lavonne . Baker . Bruce B. . Sando . Isamu . September 1977 . Sudden deafness and facial palsy from metastatic bronchogenic carcinoma . The Journal of Laryngology & Otology . en . 91 . 9 . 787–793 . 10.1017/S002221510008436X . 915378 . 37224620 . 1748-5460.
  22. Bergstrom . LaVonne . September 1980 . Pathology of Congenital Deafness: Present Status and Future Priorities . Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology . en . 89 . 5_suppl . 31–42 . 10.1177/00034894800890S511 . 6786187 . 25729957 . 0003-4894.
  23. Bergstrom . Lavonne . 1980-04-01 . Continuing management of conductive hearing loss during language development . International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology . 2 . 1 . 3–9 . 10.1016/0165-5876(80)90023-3 . 6765127 . 0165-5876.
  24. Bergstrom . L. . Thompson . P. . Sando . I. . Wood . R. P. . 1980-09-01 . Renal Disease: Its Pathology, Treatment, and Effects on the Ear . Archives of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery . en . 106 . 9 . 567–572 . 10.1001/archotol.1980.00790330047014 . 6996658 . 0886-4470.
  25. Bergstrom . Lavonne . September 1981. Fragile Bones and Fragile Ears. . Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (1976-2007) . en-US . 159 . 58.
  26. Bergstrom . Lavonne . Baker . Bruce B. . March 1981 . Syndromes Associated with Congenital Facial Paralysis . Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery . en . 89 . 2 . 336–342 . 10.1177/019459988108900238 . 6787538 . 45780425 . 0194-5998.
  27. Bergstrom . LaVonne . Thompson . Patricia . 1983-01-01 . Hearing loss in pediatric renal patients . International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology . 5 . 3 . 227–234 . 10.1016/S0165-5876(83)80034-2 . 6354954 . 0165-5876.
  28. Bergstrom . Lavonne . Owens . Othella . October 1984 . Posterior choanal atresia: A syndromal disorder . The Laryngoscope . en . 94 . 10 . 1273–1276 . 10.1288/00005537-198410000-00002 . 0023-852X. free . 6482622 .
  29. Bergstrom . LaVonne . 1987-01-01 . Cicatricial pemphigoid of upper digestive and respiratory tracts . Clinics in Dermatology . 5 . 1 . 36–42 . 10.1016/0738-081X(87)90047-2 . 3552189 . 0738-081X.
  30. News: 2001-06-17 . Bergstrom (obituary) . 30 . Star Tribune . 2023-11-29 . Newspapers.com.

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