Background
The daughter of a minister, she was born in Boston, Massachusetts and spent her childhood in New England, the midwestern United States. and Seattle.
The daughter of a minister, she was born in Boston, Massachusetts and spent her childhood in New England, the midwestern United States. and Seattle.
She graduated from high school in Seattle and then attended Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts from which she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961.
She went to medical school in Seattle at the University of Washington (UW) from which she received an Doctor of Medicine degree in 1966. The same year she was also awarded an Mississippi degree in Genetics from UW for coursework and research done with Arno Motulsky in medical genetics. Hall then went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore where she did postdoctoral fellowships in Medical Genetics with Victor McKusick and in Pediatric Endocrinology with Robert Blizzard.
She then trained in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1969 to 1971.
She also gained additional depth of knowledge concerning congenital malformations by working in Seattle with the pioneer dysmorphologist, David West. Smith (1926-1981). In 1981, Hall was named Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia and the Director of the Genetics Services for British Columbia.
In 1988 she received a Killam Senior Fellowship for a sabbatical year at Oxford University, United Kingdom. During 2001, she was a Distinguished Fellow at Christ"s College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. And by that I mean caring more about peacemaking and nurturing the individual and the environment than success, winning, owning or directing.
Quotations: To me, high achievement is not the number of publications but being a successful female in a world of professional mentor And by that I mean caring more about peacemaking and nurturing the individual and the environment than success, winning, owning or directing.