Liliane Schnitzler

{{Short description|French dermatologist (born 1938)}}

Liliane Schnitzler is a French dermatologist who described the eponymous Schnitzler's syndrome in 1972.{{cite journal |author1=A. Simon |author2=B. Asli |author3=M. Braun-Falco |author4=H. De Koning |author5=J.-P. Fermand |author6=C. Grattan |author7=K. Krause |author8=H. Lachmann |author9=C. Lenormand |author10=V. Martinez-Taboada |author11=M. Maurer |author12=M. Peters |author13=R. Rizzi |author14=F. Rongioletti |author15=T. Ruzicka |author16=L. Schnitzler |author17=B. Schubert |author18=J. Sibilia |author19=D. Lipsker |editor1-last=Bieber |editor1-first=Thomas |title=Schnitzler's syndrome: diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up |journal=Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology |date=2013 |volume=68 |issue=5 |pages=562–568 |doi=10.1111/all.12129|pmid=23480774 |s2cid=12831354 |doi-access=free }}{{cite book |last1=Sanders |first1=Lisa |title=Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries |date=2019 |publisher=Crown |isbn=9780593136645 |page=16}}{{cite book |last1=Sfriso |first1=Paolo |last2=Galozzi |first2=Paola |editor1-last=Efthimiou |editor1-first=Petros |title=Auto-Inflammatory Syndromes: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management |date=2019 |publisher=Springer |page=203 |chapter=15: The Schnitzler Syndrome}}{{cite book |editor1-last=Griffiths |editor1-first=Christopher E.M. |editor2-last=Creamer |editor2-first=Daniel |editor3-last=Barker |editor3-first=Jonathan |editor4-last=Chalmers |editor4-first=Robert |editor5-last=Bleiker |editor5-first=Tanya O. |title=Rook's Textbook of Dermatology |date=February 2016 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=9781118441176 |page=45}} Schnitzler's syndrome is a rare autoinflammatory disorder. The disorder was first called Schnitzler's syndrome in 1989.{{cite web |last1=Baker |first1=Charlotte |last2=Cadogan |first2=Mike |title=Liliane Schnitzler |url=https://litfl.com/liliane-schnitzler/ |website=Life in the Fast Lane |date=November 3, 2020}}

Schnitzler was born on May 20, 1938. She worked closely with Robert Degos, another French dermatologist. Schnitzler was also a professor, teaching at the CHU Angers, a university hospital in Angers. She became the head of its dermatology department in 1970. She was the first woman to be an associate professor of dermatology at CHU Angers.{{cite thesis |last=Riaux |first=Anne |date=18 October 2006 |title=Robert Degos (1904-1987), Sa Vie, Sa Ouvre |url=https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/ressources/pdf/histmed-asclepiades-pdf-riaux.pdf |type=doctorate |page=31 |language=French |access-date=9 January 2022}} Schnitzler had retired by 2013.