In Memory of Mary Ellen Avery

• Main Author: John Steven Torday (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; Boston Lying-In Hospital; Preterm Birth; Montreal Children's Hospital; Boston Children's Hospital; Respiratory Distress Syndrome; Harvard Medical School; Johns Hopkins Medical School; lung surfactant; Joint Program in Neonatology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Mary Ellen Avery was the driving force behind the discipline of Neonatology. She fought against convention when she published her ground-breaking paper in 1959 showing that Hyaline Membrane Disease was caused by lung surfactant deficiency. Up until then it was thought to be an due to amniotic fluid...