James Frederick Brailsford (8 July 1888 – 28 January 1961) was a British radiologist, known as the founder and first president of the British Association of Radiologists and as the co-discoverer of the Morquio (or Morquio-Brailsford) syndrome.
He studied with Sir John Robertson, the Medical Officer of Health of Birmingham. In 1923 Brailsford qualified MB, ChB (Birmingham) and was appointed assistant radiologist to Queen's Hospital, Birmingham. In 1928 he received the higher qualification MD (Birmingham). As a radiologist and a demonstrator in living anatomy, he published 1934 his famous textbook The Radiology of Joints and Bones and thereby was acknowledged as one of the world's authorities on skeletal diseases. He received Ph.D. Birmingham (1936) and became MRCS, LRCP (1923), MRCP (1935), and FRCP (1941).
Awards and honours 1927 — Robert Jones gold medal of the British Orthopaedic Association 1931 — Roentgen Prize of the British Institute of Radiology 1934–1935 — Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 1944 — Mackenzie Davidson Lecturer 1943–1945 — Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
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