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David Rimoin was one of the first researchers to recognize the genetic components of diabetes, helped establish screening programs for Tay-Sachs disease, and studied the genetics of dwarfism and other skeletal abnormalities. He died last Sunday (May 27) of pancreatic cancer, of which he was diagnosed just days earlier.
“We have lost a giant in the field of medicine,” Thomas Priselac, president and chief executive of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where Rimoin worked for much of his career, told the Los Angeles Times. “Children, adults, and families from across the country and the world who turned to him for his medical expertise have lost a uniquely skilled and caring physician who was singularly devoted to their health and well-being.”
In many years of studying dwarfism, Rimoin ...
