Jan Gösta Waldenström and His World: The Life and Work of a Giant in Science, Medicine and Humanity

Frank Wollheim attended medical school in Lund and was an undergraduate medical student in Malmö, where Jan Waldenström was a charismatic teacher. He accepted an invitation to start work in Waldenström's department in 1959, selecting gammopathies as his field of research, soon presenting evidence for a heredity factoring what is now named common variegated hypogammaglobulinemia. From 1963, he worked as an instructor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota on polyclonal and monoclonal gammopathies, in particular IgAand IgM. Back in Malmö, from 1966 he spent two years at the Department of Clinical Chemistry and defended his Ph.D. thesis there in 1968. Once more in the department of Dr. Waldenström, he became a specialist in internal medicine in 1968 and, in 1969, in rheumatology. From 1972 to 1882, he was the Director of the Division of Rheumatology in the department. In 1982, he was an appointed professor and a chairman of the independent Department of Rheumatology in Lund, where he continues to work as the emeritus professor.

Frank Wollheim 在隆德醫學院就讀，並在馬爾默擔任本科醫學生，當時 Jan Waldenström 是一位富有魅力的教師。他於 1959 年接受邀請，開始在 Waldenström 的部門工作，選擇了伽瑪病作為他的研究領域，並很快提出了遺傳因素的證據，這一因素現在被稱為常見的變異性低伽瑪球蛋白血症。從 1963 年起，他在明尼蘇達大學醫學系擔任講師，專注於多克隆和單克隆伽瑪病，特別是 IgA 和 IgM。回到馬爾默後，從 1966 年起，他在臨床化學系工作了兩年，並於 1968 年在那裡完成了博士論文。再次回到 Waldenström 醫生的部門，他於 1968 年成為內科專家，並於 1969 年成為風濕病學專家。從 1972 年到 1982 年，他擔任該部門風濕病學部門的主任。1982 年，他被任命為教授並成為隆德獨立風濕病學系的主任，至今仍以名譽教授的身份繼續工作。