Refugee Doctors at Tufts

Heinrich Brugsch. Headed the arthritis clinic and the rehabilitation department of the New England Medical Center.

Alice Ettinger. Became a pioneer in tomography, a gold medalist of two U.S. radiological societies, and the first chair of the Department of Radiology at Tufts School of Medicine (see “The Great Professors,” Winter 2013).

Joseph Fischmann. Became professor of urology at Tufts and chief of urology at Mount Auburn Hospital and Boston State Hospital.

Alfred Hauptmann. In Germany introduced phenobarbital for treating epilepsy; in Boston collaborated with Siegfried Thannhauser to describe a form of muscular dystrophy.

Joseph Igersheimer. In Germany pioneered surgery for retinal detachment; in Boston became full professor and interim head of ophthalmology at the New England Medical Center and Tufts.

Heinz Magendantz. Became director of the Boston Dispensary’s cardiac clinic.

Martin Nothmann. In Germany co-discovered Synthalin, the first oral antidiabetic agent; in Boston served on the Tufts faculty for thirty-nine years and published numerous papers with Pratt and Proger on metabolic diseases.

Berta Ottenstein. In Germany headed a dermatology clinic at the University of Freiburg; in Boston published papers with Gerhard Schmidt on cell membrane components.

Anna Reinauer. Served on the clinical staff of the Boston Dispensary and later established a practice in Brookline.

Jacob Schloss. Studied new methods of diagnosing diseases of the stomach.

Gerhard Schmidt. In Germany developed powerful new analytical research techniques using enzymes; in Boston became director of the Dispensary’s biochemistry laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Siegfried Thannhauser. In Germany was head of medicine at the University of Freiburg; in Boston established a laboratory at the Dispensary and became a professor at Tufts.

Richard Wagner. In Germany was one of the first to describe a glycogen storage disease; in Boston assisted the physician-in-chief of Tufts’ Floating Hospital for Children.