Yusuf Ibrahim (doctor)

A portrait of Dr. Ibrahim, taken in Leipzig, Germany, in 1953 shortly before his death.

Yusuf Ibrahim (May 27, 1877 in Cairo, Egypt – February 3, 1953 in Jena, Germany), also known as Yusuf Bey Murad Ibrahim, was a physician and pediatrician. He was responsible for the description of congenital cutaneous candidiasis, sometimes also called Beck-Ibrahim disease. The discovery of his association with the Nazi euthanasia program during the Second World War has resulted in an effort to rename this disease.^[1] The clinic for child and adolescent medicine at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena also chose to change its name from Kinderklinik Jussuf Ibrahim after his Nazi past was uncovered.

See also

• List of medical eponyms with Nazi associations

References