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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Silva-Hutner was born in [[Río Piedras, Puerto Rico|Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico]]<ref name=":0" />. She graduated with a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico in 1936<ref name=":0" />. She then worked at the [[Columbia University]] School of Tropical Medicine in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]] under Arturo L. Carrión, MD for 13 years<ref name=":1" />. Silva-Hunter’s work with Carrión focused on fungal infections, especially chromoblastomycosis<ref name=":1" />.
Silva-Hutner was born in [[Río Piedras, Puerto Rico|Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico]]<ref name=":0" />. She graduated with a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico in 1936.<ref name=":0" /> She then worked at the [[Columbia University]] School of Tropical Medicine in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]] under Arturo L. Carrión for 13 years.<ref name=":1" /> Silva-Hunter’s work with Carrión focused on fungal infections, especially chromoblastomycosis.<ref name=":1" />


Silva-Hutner began attending Harvard on scholarship in 1950 and joined the Mycology Laboratory at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center later that year<ref name=":1" />. She received her doctorate in 1952<ref name=":0" />. In 1956, Silva-Hutner became Director of the Mycology Laboratory and an Assistant Professor in the College of Physicians & Surgeons<ref name=":0" />. That same year she married Seymour H. Hutner<ref name=":0" />. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1963<ref name=":0" /> and remained on the faculty at Columbia University for over fifty years<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Margarita Hutner - Obituary|url=https://www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/nytimes/243388|access-date=2020-10-24|website=www.legacy.com|language=en}}</ref>. She retired from her position as Director in 1981 but continued to teach as a Special Lecturer<ref name=":0" />. Silva-Hutner died in 2002 after a lengthy illness<ref name=":0" />.
Silva-Hutner began attending Harvard University on a scholarship in 1950 and joined the Mycology Laboratory at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center later that year.<ref name=":1" /> She received her doctorate in 1952.<ref name=":0" />
In 1956, Silva-Hutner became director of the Mycology Laboratory and an assistant professor in the College of Physicians & Surgeons<ref name=":0" />. That same year she married Seymour H. Hutner<ref name=":0" />. She was promoted to associate professor in 1963<ref name=":0" /> and remained on the faculty at Columbia University for over fifty years<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Margarita Hutner - Obituary|url=https://www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/nytimes/243388|access-date=2020-10-24|website=www.legacy.com|language=en}}</ref>. She retired from her position as director in 1981 but continued to teach.<ref name=":0" /> Silva-Hutner died in 2002 after a lengthy illness.<ref name=":0" />


== Legacy ==
== Legacy ==
Silva-Hutner was a founding member of the Medical Mycological Society of New York<ref name=":2" />. Her research contributed to the development of Nystatin, the first antifungal medicine approved for human use<ref name=":2" />. She served as Chair of the Nomination Committee for the Medical Mycological Society of the Americas at the time of its founding and was active within the organization<ref>{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://www.mycologicalsociety.org/history|access-date=2020-10-24|website=Medical Mycological Society of the Americas}}</ref>
Silva-Hutner was a founding member of the Medical Mycological Society of New York.<ref name=":2" /> Her research contributed to the development of Nystatin, the first antifungal medicine approved for human use.<ref name=":2" /> She served as Chair of the Nomination Committee for the Medical Mycological Society of the Americas at the time of its founding and was active within the organization.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://www.mycologicalsociety.org/history|access-date=2020-10-24|website=Medical Mycological Society of the Americas}}</ref>


Silva-Hutner’s work on chromoblastomycosis laid the groundwork for further research on this pathogen, which remains among the most difficult fungal infections to manage<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Krzyściak|first=Paweł M.|last2=Pindycka-Piaszczyńska|first2=Małgorzata|last3=Piaszczyński|first3=Michał|date=October 2014|title=Chromoblastomycosis|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221348/|journal=Advances in Dermatology and Allergology/Postȩpy Dermatologii i Alergologii|volume=31|issue=5|pages=310–321|doi=10.5114/pdia.2014.40949|issn=1642-395X|pmc=4221348|pmid=25395928}}</ref>. She published more than fifty articles on the biology and taxonomy of pathogenic fungi over the course of her career<ref name=":1" />.
Silva-Hutner’s work on chromoblastomycosis laid the groundwork for further research on this pathogen, which remains among the most difficult fungal infections to manage.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Krzyściak|first=Paweł M.|last2=Pindycka-Piaszczyńska|first2=Małgorzata|last3=Piaszczyński|first3=Michał|date=October 2014|title=Chromoblastomycosis|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221348/|journal=Advances in Dermatology and Allergology/Postȩpy Dermatologii i Alergologii|volume=31|issue=5|pages=310–321|doi=10.5114/pdia.2014.40949|issn=1642-395X|pmc=4221348|pmid=25395928}}</ref> She published more than fifty articles on the biology and taxonomy of pathogenic fungi over the course of her career.<ref name=":1" />


== Honors and Awards ==
== Honors and Awards ==
In 1986 she was the recipient of the Medical Mycological Society of the America’s Rhonda Benham Award.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rhoda Benham Awardees|url=https://www.mycologicalsociety.org/rhoda_benham_awardees|access-date=2020-10-24|website=Medical Mycological Society of the Americas}}</ref> In 1996, she was given an award for “Excellence in Medical Mycology” at a symposium called “A Diagnostic Medley of Medical Mycology.”<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Espinel-Ingroff|first=A.|last2=Weitzman|first2=I.|date=2004|title=Obituary: Margarita Silva-Hutner|url=https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Obituary:-Margarita-Silva-Hutner-Espinel-Ingroff-Weitzman/9c65f405fad0dc97f9f32ecb1505cf5bd41c76e8|journal=Mycopathologia|doi=10.1023/A:1016002215210}}</ref> Silva-Hutner was also a Fellow and Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology<ref name=":3" />.
In 1986 she was the recipient of the Medical Mycological Society of the America’s Rhonda Benham Award.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rhoda Benham Awardees|url=https://www.mycologicalsociety.org/rhoda_benham_awardees|access-date=2020-10-24|website=Medical Mycological Society of the Americas}}</ref> In 1996, she was given an award for “Excellence in Medical Mycology” at a symposium called “A Diagnostic Medley of Medical Mycology.”<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Espinel-Ingroff|first=A.|last2=Weitzman|first2=I.|date=2004|title=Obituary: Margarita Silva-Hutner|url=https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Obituary:-Margarita-Silva-Hutner-Espinel-Ingroff-Weitzman/9c65f405fad0dc97f9f32ecb1505cf5bd41c76e8|journal=Mycopathologia|doi=10.1023/A:1016002215210}}</ref> Silva-Hutner was also a Fellow and Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology.<ref name=":3" />


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 09:01, 26 October 2020

Margarita Silva-Hutner (28 November 1915 - 6 February 2002).[1] was a mycologist, and known as the “Matriarch of Medical Mycology”.[2]

Biography

Silva-Hutner was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico[1]. She graduated with a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico in 1936.[1] She then worked at the Columbia University School of Tropical Medicine in San Juan under Arturo L. Carrión for 13 years.[2] Silva-Hunter’s work with Carrión focused on fungal infections, especially chromoblastomycosis.[2]

Silva-Hutner began attending Harvard University on a scholarship in 1950 and joined the Mycology Laboratory at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center later that year.[2] She received her doctorate in 1952.[1]

In 1956, Silva-Hutner became director of the Mycology Laboratory and an assistant professor in the College of Physicians & Surgeons[1]. That same year she married Seymour H. Hutner[1]. She was promoted to associate professor in 1963[1] and remained on the faculty at Columbia University for over fifty years[3]. She retired from her position as director in 1981 but continued to teach.[1] Silva-Hutner died in 2002 after a lengthy illness.[1]

Legacy

Silva-Hutner was a founding member of the Medical Mycological Society of New York.[3] Her research contributed to the development of Nystatin, the first antifungal medicine approved for human use.[3] She served as Chair of the Nomination Committee for the Medical Mycological Society of the Americas at the time of its founding and was active within the organization.[4]

Silva-Hutner’s work on chromoblastomycosis laid the groundwork for further research on this pathogen, which remains among the most difficult fungal infections to manage.[5] She published more than fifty articles on the biology and taxonomy of pathogenic fungi over the course of her career.[2]

Honors and Awards

In 1986 she was the recipient of the Medical Mycological Society of the America’s Rhonda Benham Award.[6] In 1996, she was given an award for “Excellence in Medical Mycology” at a symposium called “A Diagnostic Medley of Medical Mycology.”[7] Silva-Hutner was also a Fellow and Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Margarita Silva-Hutner Medical Mycology Laboratory collection | Archives and Special Collections". www.library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  2. ^ a b c d e cmm_admin (2016-05-29). "Women—Long Denied a Role at P&S—Helped Shape Medicine in the 20th Century". Columbia Medicine Magazine. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  3. ^ a b c "Margarita Hutner - Obituary". www.legacy.com. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  4. ^ "History". Medical Mycological Society of the Americas. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  5. ^ Krzyściak, Paweł M.; Pindycka-Piaszczyńska, Małgorzata; Piaszczyński, Michał (October 2014). "Chromoblastomycosis". Advances in Dermatology and Allergology/Postȩpy Dermatologii i Alergologii. 31 (5): 310–321. doi:10.5114/pdia.2014.40949. ISSN 1642-395X. PMC 4221348. PMID 25395928.
  6. ^ "Rhoda Benham Awardees". Medical Mycological Society of the Americas. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  7. ^ a b Espinel-Ingroff, A.; Weitzman, I. (2004). "Obituary: Margarita Silva-Hutner". Mycopathologia. doi:10.1023/A:1016002215210.