Stefania Jabłońska Explained

Stefania Jabłońska
Birth Name:Szela Ginzburg
Birth Date:7 September 1920
Birth Place:Mogilev, Soviet Union
Nationality:Polish
Fields:Medicine (Dermatology)
Awards:Robert Koch Prize

Stefania Jabłońska (born Szela Ginzburg; 7 September 1920 – 8 May 2017) was a Polish physician and professor specializing in dermatology. She worked at the Medical University of Warsaw.

In 1972, she theorized the association of human papilloma viruses with skin cancer in epidermodysplasia verruciformis.[1] [2]

In 1978, Jabłońska and Gerard Orth at the Pasteur Institute discovered HPV-5 in skin cancer.[3] Jabłońska was awarded the 1985 Robert Koch Prize.[4]

She is a recipient of the National Order of Merit and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.[5]

Biography

She was born as Szela Ginzburg in 1920 in Mogilev, present-day Belarus, and at the age of six moved to Warsaw.[6] Later known as Stefania Jabłońska, she earned her high school diploma in 1937 in Warsaw, where she began to study medicine in the same year at the Medical University of Warsaw. In 1938 she moved to the University of Lviv and a year later to Kyrgyz Technical University, where she graduated in 1942 with a medical degree. She then served two years in the military.[7]

She specialized in dermatology, worked for a year at the Soviet Science Academy in the Department of Pathology, and in 1946 in the Department of Dermatology of the Medical University of Warsaw. With a grant from the World Health Organization in 1949, she spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania.[8] [9]

Jabłońska earned a Doctor of Science in 1950. In 1951 she qualified as a professor. Jabłońska was appointed to head dermatology at the Medical University of Warsaw in 1954. She became professor emeritus in 1990. She died on 8 May 2017, age 96.[1]

Awards and honors

A partial list of Jabłońska's honors and awards.

State decorations

Ribbon barAward or decorationCountryDatePlaceNote
National Order of Merit FranceFrance's highest order of merit.
Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta PolandOne of Poland's highest orders.

Membership

Honor/awardLocationDateNotes
Membership in the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium Brussels, Belgium
Membership in the Committee on Immunology of the Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Poland
Membership in the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Halle, Germany
Membership in the committee of the International League of Dermatological Societies London, UKFirst Pole elected.

Honorary

Non-dermatological

Honor/awardLocationDateNotes
Honorary membership in the Royal Medical Society Edinburgh, Scotland
Honorary membership in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Honorary membership in the American College of Rheumatology Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Honorary membership in the Argentine Medical Association Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dermatological

Honor / awardLocationDateNotes
Honorary membership in the American Dermatological Association United States
Honorary membership in the American Society for Investigative Dermatology United States
Honorary membership in the Association des Dermatologistes et Syphilidologues de Langue Francaise France
Honorary membership in the Argentinian Dermatological Association Argentina
Honorary membership in the Austrian Dermatological Association Austria
Honorary membership in the Belgium Dermatological Association Belgium
Honorary membership in the Berlin Dermatological Association Germany
Honorary membership in the Brazilian Dermatological Association Brazil
Honorary membership in the British Dermatological Association United Kingdom
Honorary membership in the Bulgarian Dermatological Association Bulgaria
Honorary membership in the Canadian Dermatological Association Canada
Honorary membership in the Danish Dermatological Association Denmark
Honorary membership in the Finnish Dermatological Association Finland
Honorary membership in the French Dermatological Association France
Honorary membership in the German Dermatological Association Germany
Honorary membership in the Georgian Dermatological Association Georgia
Honorary membership in the Greek Dermatological Association Greece
Honorary membership in the Hungarian Dermatological Association Hungary
Honorary membership in the Indian Dermatological Association India
Honorary membership in the International Society of Tropical Dermatology
Honorary membership in the Israel Dermatological Association Israel
Honorary membership in the Italian Dermatological Association Italy
Honorary membership in the Japanese Dermatological Association Japan
Honorary membership in the Kiev Dermatological Association Ukraine
Honorary membership in the Mexican Dermatological Association Mexico
Honorary membership in the Mexican Academy of Dermatology Mexico
Honorary membership in the Munich Dermatological Association Germany
Honorary membership in the Norwegian Dermatological Association Norway
Honorary membership in the Pacific Dermatological Association
Honorary membership in the Swedish Dermatological Association Sweden
Honorary membership in the Styrian Dermatological Association Austria
Honorary membership in the Tchekoslovak Dermatological Association Czechoslovakia
Honorary membership in the Thuring Dermatological Association Austria
Honorary membership in the Yugoslavian Dermatological Association Yugoslavia
Honorary membership in the Venezuela Dermatological Association Venezuela

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Zmarła prof. Stefania Jabłońska, wybitny dermatolog i stypendystka WHO. 9 May 2017. Polsat News. pl. 13 May 2017.
  2. Book: Crissey, John Thorne. Lawrence C. Parish. Karl Holubar.. Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists. 2013. Boca Raton. CRC Press. 978-1-84184-864-8. 178.
  3. Book: Human papillomaviruses. 2007. World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer. 978-92-832-1290-4. registration.
  4. Web site: Holders of the Robert Koch Prize since 1960. Robert Koch Foundation. 28 November 2012. 25 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121125070232/http://www.robert-koch-stiftung.de/index.php?article_id=11&clang=1. dead.
  5. Web site: Prof Dr Stefania Jabłońska profile. AcademiaNet. 12 December 2014.
  6. Web site: Zmarła profesor Stefania Jabłońska, wybitny dermatolog o światowej sławie . pl . 9 May 2017 . 20 December 2021.
  7. Web site: Prof. Dr. Stefania Jablonska . pl . 20 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170717211930/http://www.academia-net.org/profil/prof-dr-stefania-jablonska/1133805 . 17 July 2017 . dead.
  8. Kucharz . Eugene Joseph . In memoriam Professor Stephanie Jablonska . Journal of Scleroderma and Related Disorders . February 2018 . 3 . 1 . 3–5 . 10.1177/2397198318755211 . 2397-1983. 8892879 .
  9. Grzybowski . Andrzej . Pawlikowska-Łagód . Katarzyna . Stefania Jabłońska (1920-2017): A giant in 20th century dermatology . Clinics in Dermatology . 1 November 2023 . 41 . 6 . 772–780 . 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2023.09.011 . 37722550 . 6 June 2024 . 0738-081X.