Isabelle Rapin was a leading authority on autism for decades, and a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.
10 Facts About Isabelle Rapin
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Isabelle Rapin studied at the University of Lausanne Medical School in 1946, in a class of around 100 students that included about a dozen women.
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Isabelle Rapin decided to become a pediatric neurologist in 1951 after she spent twelve weeks at Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital and at the Hopital des Enfants Malades in Paris.
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Isabelle Rapin immigrated to the United States in 1953 after being offered a position in pediatrics at Bellevue to begin in July.
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Isabelle Rapin met her husband, Harold Oaklander, in August 1958, and they were married in the spring of 1959.
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Isabelle Rapin interned in pediatrics at New York City's Bellevue Hospital, and did her residency in neurology at the Neurological Institute at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, where she completed a year of fellowship.
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Isabelle Rapin joined the Albert Einstein College of Medicine faculty in 1958 and retired at the age of 84 in 2012.
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Isabelle Rapin helped found the Child Neurology Society and the International Child Neurology Association.
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Isabelle Rapin served on the boards of the Child Neurology Society, the International Child Neurology Association, the American Academy of Neurology and the International Neuropsychology Society.
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The Boston Globe said in 1992 that Isabelle Rapin was "a specialist in neurological diseases of children [who] discovered several such diseases and is a leading authority on autism".