John Fielding Crigler

John Fielding Crigler was an American pediatrician, born on 11 September 1919 and died on 13 May 2018. He is remembered through the eponym of Crigler-Najjar syndrome, a name he shares with Victor Assad Najjar, with whom he is credited. He studied medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine and graduated in 1943, and he went on to train in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital. The sources read for this entry say little else about his career, so this description records only what they state: his nationality and specialty, the dates of his life, his training, and the syndrome that carries his name alongside that of his collaborator.