Douglas Reye

Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye (/r/ "rye"; 5 April 1912 – 16 July 1977) was an Australian pathologist.[2] Reye's syndrome is named after Reye.[3]

Douglas Reye was the first to describe the childhood disease now known as Reye Syndrome, and to recognise it as a distinct illness.[1]

Life and career

Reye attended Townsville Grammar School and the University of Sydney, where he completed undergraduate studies in medicine and was awarded a MBBS in 1937. He was later to be awarded an MD from the University of Sydney in 1945.[2][3] Reye joined the staff of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children (RAHC) in 1939 as a pathologist. He remained at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for all his working life.[2] In 1965 Reye was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.[2] On 16 July 1977, Reye died at the age of 65, of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm at Royal North Shore Hospital, 24 hours after he had retired from the RAHC.[2]

Reye syndrome

In 1963 The Lancet published an article written by Reye, Graeme Morgan, and Jim Baral about an encephalopathic condition that became known as Reye syndrome.[2][3]

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