Beryl Rice Benacerraf was an American radiologist and professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology and radiology at Harvard Medical School.
14 Facts About Beryl Benacerraf
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Beryl Benacerraf was a pioneer in the use of prenatal ultrasound to diagnose fetal abnormalities, including Down syndrome.
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Beryl Benacerraf was the daughter of Baruj Benacerraf, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Beryl Benacerraf spent her early years in France and returned to New York City at age seven, attending the Brearley School and Barnard College in Manhattan.
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Beryl Benacerraf began her medical studies at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and then transferred to Harvard Medical School, where she completed her medical degree in 1976.
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Beryl Benacerraf did her residency in radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Beryl Benacerraf then accepted a fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital where she specialized in ultrasound.
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Beryl Benacerraf established a practice in 1982 specializing in prenatal ultrasound.
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Beryl Benacerraf made major contributions to prenatal hearing testing and fetal echocardiography.
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Beryl Benacerraf credited her talent in reading ultrasound as the "flip side" of her dyslexia.
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Beryl Benacerraf wrote over 300 scholarly papers, accruing over 13,000 citations.
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Beryl Benacerraf was the author of the textbooks Ultrasound of Fetal Syndromes and Gynecologic Ultrasound: A Problem-Based Approach.
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Beryl Benacerraf was married in 1975 to Peter Libby, who became chief of cardiology at Brigham and Women's and Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Beryl Benacerraf died of cancer on October 1,2022, at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.