Albert Touraine

Albert Touraine (11 November 1883 – 3 May 1961)^[1] was a French dermatologist.^[2]

Albert Touraine
Born	(1883-11-11)November 11, 1883 Paris, France
Died	May 3, 1961(1961-05-03) (aged 77)
Nationality	French
Education	University of Paris
Medical career
Profession	Physician
Field	Dermatologist

He studied medicine at the University of Paris as a pupil of Eugène Apert and Émile Achard.^[2] In 1912 he received his doctorate with the thesis Les anticorps syphilitiques : essais de séro-agglutination de la syphilis.^[3] In 1932 he was named senior physician at the Hôpital Saint-Louis.^[2]

Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (or "Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome") is named for him. Touraine-Solente-Gole syndrome is also named for him.^[4][5]

For eighteen years he was editor of the journal Annales de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie.^[2] In 1945 he was elected as a member of the Académie de médecine.^[6]