Robert I. White Jr., M.D.

Robert I. White Jr., M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology and director of the Vascular Malformation Clinical and Research Group, recently visited hospitals in Canada, Denmark, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and Australia. In 1988, White founded the nation’s first clinic for patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, a rare inherited disorder in which the blood vessels fail to form properly. The Yale center is following 600 patients with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations and an additional 1,000 with various combinations of epistaxis, gastrointestinal bleeding and vascular malformations in the liver and brain. Since its founding, the center has trained 12 specialists from around the world and helped establish similar clinics on four continents.