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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Eugène Apert
- Eugène Charles Apert (27 July 1868 – 2 February 1940) was a French pediatrician born in Paris. He received his doctorate in 1897 and afterwards was associated with the Hôtel-Dieu and Hôpital Saint-Louis.
- From 1919 until 1934, he worked at the Hôpital des Enfants-Malades in Paris.
- Pediatrician Jacques-Joseph Grancher (1843–1907) and surgeon Paul Georges Dieulafoy (1839–1911) were important influences on his career.
- He was also a student of pediatrician Antoine Bernard-Jean Marfan (1858–1942) and collaborated with dermatologist François Henri Hallopeau (1842–1919).
- Apert's medical research primarily dealt with genetic diseases and congenital abnormalities.
- In 1906 he published the case report "De l'acrocéphalosyndactylie" (Acrocephalosyndactyly), documenting several individuals who had congenital malformations of the skull in conjunction with joined fingers.
- The condition came to be known as Apert syndrome, a syndrome consisting of a triad of disorders; namely, craniosynostosis, syndactyly, and maxillary underdevelopment. Apert authored many works in pediatrics, including an influential manual on child rearing.
- He was a founding member of the French Society of Eugenics.
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