By Marcello Cherchi, MD PhD
Charles Skinner Hallpike (Muree, India [now Pakistan], 1900 – Southampton, 1979) trained at the Ferens Institute of Otology at the Middlesex Hospital in London in the 1930s (Baloh 2000). His work included numerous lasting contributions to the field of neuro-otology ([No authors] 1979; Angell-James 1980; Baloh 2000; Whitteridge and Merton 1984).
Some of his work was with Margaret Ruth Dix, and their description of the positional test for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (Dix and Hallpike 1952a, b) became known as the Dix-Hallpike maneuver.
References
[No authors] (1979) Charles Skinner Hallpike. Lancet 2: 805.
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Baloh RW (2000) Charles Skinner Hallpike and the beginnings of neurotology. Neurology 54: 2138-46. doi: 10.1212/wnl.54.11.2138
Dix MR, Hallpike CS (1952a) The pathology symptomatology and diagnosis of certain common disorders of the vestibular system. Proc R Soc Med 45: 341-54.
Dix MR, Hallpike CS (1952b) The pathology, symptomatology and diagnosis of certain common disorders of the vestibular system. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 61: 987-1016. doi: 10.1177/000348945206100403
Whitteridge D, Merton PA (1984) Charles Skinner Hallpike: 19 July 1900-26 September 1979. Biogr Mem Fellows R Soc 30: 283-95.
