The Passing of Lee Henry Ferguson
Lee Henry Ferguson passes away due to complications from hemophilia.
Lee Henry Ferguson passes away due to complications from hemophilia.
NHF hosts another symposium; MASAC presents its findings and publishes a paper.
Inga Marie Nilsson, a Swedish physician, begins prophylactic treatment in boys with severe hemophilia A.
Howard Coring Jr. is hired as the first official executive director of NHF.
Researchers in Sweden identify von Willebrand factor as the cause of VWD.
Dr. Martin Rosenthal is named NHF's first medical director.
NHF hosts its first symposium where MASAC presents its findings.
Hemophilia of Michigan forms.
At a board meeting in Chicago, NHF hands over business functions from volunteers to official staff, an effort lead by board secretary Margaret Hexter, who lived in Illinois and had a son with hemophilia.
On February 21, 1956, a "Certificate of Change of Name of The Hemophilia Foundation, Inc., to "The National Hemophilia Foundation" is filed in the New York Department of State.