Harry klinefelter biography
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Harry Klinefelter
American rheumatologist and endocrinologist (1912–1990)
Harry Fitch Klinefelter Jr. (; March 20, 1912 – February 20, 1990) was an American rheumatologist and endocrinologist. Klinefelter syndrome is named after him.
Biography
[edit]Born March 20, 1912, in Baltimore, Klinefelter studied first at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and then attained his medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.[1] After his graduation in 1937 he continued his training in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Klinefelter worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from 1941 to 1942; under the supervision of Fuller Albright he described a group of nine men with "gynecomastia, aspermatogenesis without aleydigism, and increased excretion of follicle-stimulating hormone", the first description of what would be called the Klinefelter syndrome.[2] Initially he suspected this to be endocrine disorder and postulated the
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HARRY F. KLINEFELTER III, PH.D.
Harry F. ("Hap") Klinefelter III graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970 and earned his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Florida in 1982.
Hap is a former staff psychologist and adjunct assistant professor at Texas Christian University. He was also Clinical Director of Addiction Treatment at Harris Methodist (Springwood) before entering full-time private practice in 1991.
Dr. Klinefelter is a licensed psychologist and health service provider in psychology. He is also certified as an advanced clinician in Imago relationship therapy. He served as president of the Fort Worth Area Psychological Association in 2002.
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Harry Fitch Klinefelter, Jun.
Harry Fitch Klinefelter, Jun. studied at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville before entering Johns Hopkins Medical School, where he graduated in 1937. He trained in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and spent a the year 1941-1942 working as a graduate assistant with Fuller Albright at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard. Klinefelter then returned in 1943 to Johns Hopkins Medical School.
Klinefelter served in the armed forces from 1943 to 1946 and thereafter returned to Baltimore, becoming associate professor of medicine in 1966. He had a life-long interest in rheumatology and he has occupied senior positions on committees concerned with that speciality. His two other major fields of interest were endocrinology and the medical management of alcoholism.
Klinefelter considered the syndrome named after him another of Albright’s discoveries and describes the way it came about as follows - whilst a travelling fellow at Harva