- Skip Spence
Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence was a musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Spence was a guitarist in an early line-up of Quicksilver Messenger Service before Marty Balin got him to be the drummer for Jefferson Airplane. After one album with Jefferson Airplane, their debut "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off", he left to co-found Moby Grape, once again as a guitarist. Spence suffered from schizophrenia. - Austin Flint
Austin Flint (1812-86) was an American physician, born at Petersham, Mass. He was educated at Amherst and Harvard and graduated at the latter in 1833. After practicing at Boston and Northampton, he moved to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1836. He was appointed professor of the institutes and practices of medicine in Rush Medical College, Chicago; resigned after one year, in 1846, and established the "Buffalo Medical Journal". - Albert Sabin
<b>Albert Bruce Sabin</b> (August 26, 1906 - March 3, 1993) was a renowned American medical researcher of Jewish and Polish ancestry who is best-known for having developed the hugely successful oral vaccine for polio. Born in 1906 in Białystok, Russia (now Poland), to Jewish parents, he emigrated in 1921 to America with his family. In 1930, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Sabin received a medical degree from New York University in 1931. - John Moore
Brigadier General, John Moore, MD (August 18, 1826 - March 18, 1907) was a leading United States Army physician during the American Civil War who rose to become Surgeon General of the Army in the late 1880s. John Moore was born in Bloomington, Indiana. He attended Indiana State University and graduated in 1845. He had graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati in 1844. - Billy Goldberg
Billy Goldberg (b. 1966) is a New York City emergency medicine physician at the NYU School of Medicine (Bellevue Hospital and New York University (NYU) Medical Center), where he is also an Assistant Professor and an Assistant Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1992. He has collaborated with writer Mark Leyner on two books of answers to commonly pondered, though discomforting, medical questions. - James Carroll
James Carroll (b. Woolwich, England, June 5, 1854; d. Washington, D.C., September 16, 1907), Major, United States Army, was an American physician and a member of the Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba, along with Walter Reed, Jesse William Lazear, and Aristides Agramonte. He was a graduate of the University of Maryland. He, along with Lazear, subjected himself to the bite of infectious mosquitoes in the course of his work. - Louisa Lee Schuyler
Louisa Lee Schuyler (1837-1926) was an American leader in charitable work, the great-granddaughter of Gen. Philip Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton. During the Civil War she joined the United States Sanitary Commission as one of its volunteer workers in New York City. - Elise Cowen
Elise Nada Cowen (1933 - February 1 1962, Washington Heights, Manhattan) was an American poet, part of the Beat generation. Born to a wealthy Jewish family in Long Island, New York, Cowen wrote poetry from a young age, enjoying the works of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Dylan Thomas. While attending Barnard College in the early 1950s she became friends with Joyce Johnson (at that time Joyce Glassman). - Henry Draper
Henry Draper (March 7, 1837 - November 20 1882) was an American doctor and astronomer. Henry Draper's father, John William Draper, was an accomplished doctor, chemist, botanist, and professor at New York University; he was also the first to photograph the moon through a telescope in the winter of 1839-1840. Draper's mother was Antonia Coetana de Paiva Pereira Gardner, daughter of the personal physician to the Emperor of Brazil. - Francis Delafield
Francis Delafield (1841-1915) was an American physician, born in New York City. He graduated at Yale (1860) and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University (1863), and after further study abroad practiced medicine in New York. He was appointed to the staff of Bellevue Hospital (1874), and to the chair of pathology and practice of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1875-82). - Isabel Hampton Robb
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb was one of the founders of modern American nursing theory and one of the most important leaders in the history of nursing. She graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1883. After gaining experience working as a nurse in Rome she traveled back to the United States to take a position as superintendent of nursing at the Cook County Hospital nursing school in Chicago. - Warren Sturgis McCulloch
Warren Sturgis McCulloch was an American neurophysiologist and cybernetician. Warren Sturgis McCulloch was born in Orange, New Jersey and studied at Yale (philosophy and psychology, A.B. degree in 1921) and Columbia (psychology, M.A. degree in 1923). Receiving his MD in 1927 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York he undertook an internship at Bellevue Hospital, New York before returning to academia in 1934. - William A. Nolen
William A. Nolen, M.D. (March 20, 1928 - December 20, 1986), was a retired surgeon and author who resided in Litchfield, Minnesota. He wrote a syndicated medical advice column that appeared in McCall's magazine for many years, and was the author of several books. He died on December 20, 1986, at the University of Minnesota Medical Center from heart disease. His best known book is "The Making of a Surgeon", … - Daniel Webster Hering
Daniel Webster Hering, Ph.D. (1850-) was an American physicist and university dean. He was born in Washington County, Maryland, and graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School (Yale). He occupied positions at Johns Hopkins, Western Maryland College, Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh), and NYU, where he was dean after 1902. He was the author of "Essentials of Physics for College Students" (1912). - William Worrall Mayo
William Worrall Mayo (May 31, 1819 - March 6, 1911) was an English medical doctor and chemist, best known for founding the Mayo Clinic in the late 19th century with his sons William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo in Rochester, Minnesota in the United States. He was born in Eccles, near Salford, Lancashire, England and studied medicine in Manchester, Glasgow, and London before leaving for the U.S. in 1845. - Meredith Sue Willis
Meredith Sue Willis (born 1946 in Clarksburg, West Virginia), is a writer and teacher probably best known as a member of the literary renaissance in Appalachia during the second half of the 20th century. She is also one of the seminal group of artists and writers who went into the public schools beginning in the late 1960's who have had an effect on the teaching of creative writing and the other arts. A well-known speaker and writer about the teaching of writing, … - Montague Ullman
Montague Ullman, MD, (born 1916) is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded the Dream Laboratory at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and for over three decades has been actively promoting public interest in dreams and dream sharing groups. Ullman received his B.S. degree from the College of the City of New York in 1935, and graduated from the New York University School of Medicine in 1938. Ullman completed training in neurology and psychiatry and, … - Elizabeth Wright Hubbard
Elizabeth Wright Hubbard (1896-1967) was an American physician and homeopath best known for leadership and editorial work in the field of homeopathy. Hubbard began her medical studies in New York City, receiving an MD from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1921 and completed her internship at Bellevue Hospital. She then spent two years in Europe studying homoeopathy in Stuttgart, Vienna under Dr. Adolf Stiegele, in Geneva under Dr. - Alfred Lebbeus Loomis
Alfred Lebbeus Loomis (1831-95) was an American physician who served as president of the Association of American Physicians. He was born at Bennington, Vt. He graduated from Union College in 1851, studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and graduated in 1852. At this time the science of auscultation and percussion was developing very rapidly; and this circumstance led him to adopt diseases of the lungs and heart as his specialty. - Henry Gassett Davis
Henry Gassett Davis (b. November 4 1807, Trenton, Maine - d. November 18 1896, Everett, Massachusetts) was an orthopedic surgeon. He founded the traction school of orthopedic surgery and created the first splint for traction and protection of the hip joint. Henry was a later descendent of Dolor Davis of early Cape Cod, Massachusetts. As a boy he intended to be a mechanic and a manufacturer of cotton bagging, similar to his father. - Murray Bowen
Murray Bowen, M.D., (1913-1990) was a key figure in family therapy. Beginning in the 1950s, he developed a systems theory of the family. Bowen felt that problems within the family unit stem from a multigenerational transmission process whereby levels of differentiation among family members become progressively lower from one generation to the next. The goal of "Extended Family Systems Therapy" is to increase individual family members level of differentiation. - John B. Rice
John Birchard Rice (June 23 1832 - January 14 1893) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Fremont, Ohio, Rice attended the common schools of Lower Sandusky (now Fremont) and Oberlin College, Ohio. He was graduated from the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1857. He took a post-graduate course at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at Bellevue Hospital, New York City in 1859. - Robert E. Gould
Robert Emery Gould was a clinical professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College, and the chief of adolescent services at Bellevue Hospital. Gould was known as outspoken advocate on social issues, including psychiatric treatment of homeless people, violence on television (he was the president of lobbying group National Coalition on Television Violence), homosexuality and AIDS. - William Randolph Lovelace II
William Randolph "Randy" Lovelace II (December 30, 1907-December 12, 1965) was an American physician who made contributions to aerospace medicine. He studied medicine at the Harvard Medical School and graduated in 1934. His residences were served at New York's Bellevue Hospital and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He then went to Europe for further study. - David Rall
David Platt Rall (August 3, 1926 - September 28, 1999) was a cancer specialist and a leader in environmental health studies, whose work in environmental health helped turn it into a scientific discipline. Rall also advanced public health and prevention. He directed the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences from 1971 - 1990. - Frederic Dorr Steele
Frederic Dorr Steele is an American illustrator best known for his work on the Sherlock Holmes stories. Steele, a descendant of William Bradford (1590-1657), was born on 6 August 1873 at Eagle Mills, Marquette, Michigan and studied at the National Academy of Design and elsewhere in New York City. He worked for "The Illustrated American" 1896-7 then moved into freelance illustration. - Nathan Edwin Brill
Nathan Edwin Brill was an American physician who discovered Brill-Zinsser disease, a type of recurrent typhus. Born in New York City, Brill earned his medical degree at New York University College in 1880. He was an intern at the Bellevue Hospital from 1879 to 1881. In 1882 he was appointed physician at the Mount Sinai Hospital, becoming professor at the College of Physicians and surgeons. Brill translated "Clinical Diagnosis" by Georg Klemperer in 1898. - Olive Tell
Olive Tell (September 27, 1894 "-" June 6, 1951) was a stage and screen actress from New York City. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1915. Tell's sister, Alma, was also a stage actress. The sisters began appearing in the Broadway (Manhattan) theaters at about the same time, around 1918. Olive made her New York debut in the drama "Husband and Wife". At first she preferred acting in theater and detested her work on screen. - Georgina Pope
Georgina Fane Pope . Born Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island 1862. Died June 6, 1938. She graduated from the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing, in New York. and served in various administrative positions at hospitals in the US. With the Canadian involvement in the South African War , she volunteered for nursing services with the British forces in October 1899. In fact she headed the first group of four Canadian nurses. - Oscar G. Mason
Oscar G. Mason (1830 - March 16, 1921), better known as O. G. Mason, was an American photographer and radiographer. For most of his professional life, O. G. Mason directed the photographic department of Bellevue Hospital in New York City. He retired from this position in 1906. - Oliver Layne
Oliver Hoffran Layne (born 3 July 1876 in Brittons Hill, St Michael, Barbados, died 16 August 1932 at Bellevue Hospital, New York City) was a coloured West Indian cricketer who toured England in 1906. He was a right handed batsman and right arm medium pace bowler. Being a Professional he had limited opportunities to play in important matches, the Inter-Colonial Tournament being restricted to Amateurs only. - Albiny Paquette
Joseph-Henri-Albiny Paquette was a Quebec politician and radiologist. He was a Cabinet Minister under Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationale government for 17 years. Born in Marieville, Quebec, Paquette studied in medical sciences at Université Laval. After additionnal studies and training at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, Paquette worked first for the Canadian Red Cross in the Middle East, then in the Canadian Armed Forces as medical officier. - Henry Koplik
Henry Koplik (New York October 28, 1858 - 1927) was an American physician. He was educated at the College of the City of New York and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (M.D. 1881). He took a postgraduate course at the universities of Leipzig, Prague, and Vienna, and on his return to America established himself as a physician in his native city (1883). There he became connected with Bellevue Hospital, the Good Samaritan Dispensary, and other medical institutions. - H.J. O'Brien
H.J. O'Brien (d. March 5, 1863) was a US Army colonel who participated in the New York Draft Riots in 1863. Assigned to the 11th New York Volunteers, he rallied around 150 militiamen against approching rioters in front of "Oliver's Livery Stable" near the East River. As police under an Inspector Carpenter began withdrawing after fighting with rioters on Second Avenue, O'Brien arrived with two companies at 34th Street and Second Avenue. - Gary Winkel
Gary Winkel is a Professor of Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York He received his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Washington with a minor in quantitative methods. - Hugh Cameron
Hugh Cameron was a Canadian politician and a member of the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Iverness in Nova Scotia. He was born on March 18, 1836 in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. Cameron studied at Saint Francis Xavier College and, in 1861, graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania and also from the School of Practical Obstetrics in Philadelphia. He practiced medicine at Mabou in Cape Breton. - Martha Brookes Hutcheson
Martha Brookes Hutcheson was an American landscape architect, lecturer, and author, active in New England, New York, and New Jersey. Hutcheson was born in New York City as Martha Brookes Brown, and as a child spent her summers on a family farm near Burlington, Vermont. From 1893-1895 she studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women, and in the late 1890s toured Europe where she studied gardens in England, France, and Italy. - Philip Kantoff
Philip Kantoff, MD Chief Clinical Research Officer Philip Kantoff, MD, graduated from Brown University Medical School in 1979. After completing his internship, residency and chief residency in internal medicine at New York University Hospital and Bellevue Hospital, he spent four years at the National Institutes of Health conducting research in gene therapy. He joined Dana-Farber in 1987 and became director of what is now the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology in 1988. - Dr Dee A Glaser MD
Dr. Dee Anna Glaser is an active dermatologist and has practiced for more than thirteen years. She is a founding board member of the International Hyperhidrosis Society (IHHS) and currently a professor of Dermatology and Vice Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. She is also the Director of Cosmetic and Laser Surgery in the Department of Dermatology and the Director of Dermatology Research Services at Saint Louis University. - Dr Gregory Lewis Fricchione MD
Gregory L. Fricchione , MD Dr. Fricchione has been at Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 1993 when he was appointed an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and director of the Medical Psychiatry Service at Brigham and Women�s Hospital. Fricchione received his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine. He completed his internship at New York University-Bellevue and Manhattan Veterans Administration Hospitals.
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