LaVonne Bernadene Bergstrom (October 17, 1928 – January 10, 2001) was an American surgeon, otolaryngologist, and medical school professor.
In 1975, she joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and in 1979 she achieved the rank of professor there.
Rosenberg-Bergstrom syndrome, a genetic condition which includes renal insufficiency and deafness, is named for her and for her colleague Alan L.
She was the first woman physician to become a full member of the American Otological Society, inducted in 1977.
[30] She had Pick's disease, a form of dementia, for more than a decade before she died in 2001, at the age of 72, in Los Angeles, California.