Jonas Henrik Kellgren was a British physician and the first professor of rheumatology in the United Kingdom at the University of Manchester.
23 Facts About Jonas Kellgren
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Jonas Kellgren became Vice-Chancellor of the university and dean of the institution's medical school.
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Jonas Kellgren was an expert adviser to the World Health Organization and earned a Canada Gairdner International Award for his work.
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Jonas Kellgren's mother was a Russian refugee, and his father was from a Swedish family of doctors.
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Jonas Kellgren grew up in London where his father and uncle co-ran a practice on Eaton Square, but it ended up failing and Kellgren's father died of influenza in 1919.
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Jonas Kellgren studied in Scandinavia on a scholarship and at St George's, University of London alongside his brother Ernst.
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Post graduation, Jonas Kellgren worked as a researcher for University College Hospital under Thomas Lewis.
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Just as Jonas Kellgren received the Belt fellowship, the Second World War broke out.
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Jonas Kellgren then joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a major stationed with the Allied Armies in Italy and North Africa.
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Jonas Kellgren became a physician and director at the Centre for Research in Chronic Rheumatism in Manchester the following year and joined the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council.
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Jonas Kellgren worked with John Lawrence, who had conducted research on rheumatism in the mining industry.
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Jonas Kellgren conceptualised nodal osteoarthritis, characterised by nodes on the distal joints on the fingers and other parts of the body, often genetic and found in older women.
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Jonas Kellgren discovered the benefits of exercise in cases of the latter, distinguishing it from other forms of arthritis.
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Jonas Kellgren was appointed professor of rheumatology, the first role in the United Kingdom of its kind, at the University of Manchester in 1953.
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Jonas Kellgren was president of the Heberden Society and lectured at the Royal College of Physicians.
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Jonas Kellgren established teaching programmes and postgraduate centres in the region and country.
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Jonas Kellgren was made dean of Manchester's new medical school, a position he held from 1968 to 1973.
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Jonas Kellgren served as Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1969 to 1972.
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Jonas Kellgren was given the title of emeritus professor upon his retirement in 1976 and remained a medical advisor.
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Jonas Kellgren was married to Ruth Rushton from 1934 until their divorce in 1940.
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Jonas Kellgren married his second wife, Thelma Reynolds, an American nurse from Amesbury, Massachusetts, in 1942 in St Marylebone.
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Jonas Kellgren is the grandfather of YouTuber and television personality Jessica Kellgren-Fozard.
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Jonas Kellgren was awarded a Canada Gairdner International Award in 1961.