Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 - March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book "Baby and Child Care", published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than you think you do." Spock was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis to try to understand children's needs and family dynamics.

Harold Elliot Varmus (b. December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel prize winning scientist. He was a co-recipient (along with J. Michael Bishop) of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. Varmus was born to Jewish parents of Eastern European descent in Freeport, New York. In 1957, he enrolled at Amherst College, intending to follow in his father's footsteps as a medical doctor, …

Robin Cook (born May 4 1940 in New York) is an American doctor/novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health. He is noted for several works, including "Toxin", "Outbreak", "The Year of The Intern", and "Fatal Cure". Several of his books have been published by Reader's Digest. A number of Cook's novels, including "Coma" and "Sphinx", have been made into movies. He graduated from Columbia University.

Walker Percy (May 28, 1916 - May 10, 1990) was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known for his philosophical novels, the first of which, "The Moviegoer", won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1962. He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age," and his work exhibited a unique combination of existentialism, Southern sensibility, and deeply-felt Catholicism.

Thomas Berry Brazelton (born May 10, 1918) is a noted pediatrician and author in the United States. Major hospitals throughout the world use the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS). Many parents know him as the host of a cable television program "What Every Baby Knows", and as author of a syndicated newspaper column. Dr. Brazelton has written more than two hundred scholarly papers and twenty four books.

Robert Abbe (1851 - 1928), was an American surgeon and pioneer radiologist in New York City. He was born April 13, 1851, at New York City and educated at the College of the City of New York (S.B., 1871) and Columbia University (M.D., 1874). Abbe was most known as a plastic surgeon, and between 1877 and 1884 he served as a surgeon and professor of surgery at the New York Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital, and the New York Babies Hospital.

Dr. Charles Richard Drew was an American physician and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge in developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. He protested against the practice of racial segregation in the donation of blood from donors of different races since it lacked scientific foundation.

Judith Palfrey (b. 1945) is the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the author of "Community Child Health: An Action Plan for Today" (1995) and "Child Health In America: Making A Difference Through Advocacy" (2006), and co-author of the "Disney Encyclopedia of Baby and Childcare" (1999). She is also the Master of Adams House along with her husband Sean Palfrey at Harvard University. Dr.

Theodric Romeyn Beck M.D. LL.D (April 11, 1791 - November 19, 1855) (alternatively Theodoric Romeyn Beck or T. Romeyn Beck) was an American physician in Albany, New York specializing in medical jurisprudence who authored the first significant American book on forensic medicine, "Elements of Medical Jurisprudence" in 1823. Beck was born in Schnenectady, New York to a family of English descent.

Cornelius Rea Agnew (August 8, 1830-April 18, 1888) was an American physician. Agnew was born in New York City, the son of William Agnew and Elizabeth Thompson Agnew. He graduated from Columbia College in 1849, and from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1852. That same year, he was appointed surgeon-general of New York State.

Truman Abbe (November 1, 1873-May 2, 1955) was an American surgeon, son of Cleveland Abbe and brother of Cleveland Abbe, Jr. He was born in Washington, D. C. and graduated from Harvard in 1895. He received his degree in medicine at Columbia University in 1899, then pursued post-graduate studies at the University of Berlin. The well-educated young man began work in 1902 at Georgetown University. Afterwards, he was appointed instructor at George Washington University (1905).

J. Nozipo Maraire (born in 1966) is a Zimbabwean writer. She is the author of "Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter". She is a practicing Neurosurgeon in Klamath Falls, Oregon. She got her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and then attended The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Soon after she entered a Neurosurgery internship at Yale. She currently lives in New Haven, Connecticu

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.

Dr. John Kingsley Lattimer (October 14, 1914, in Mount Clemens, Michigan - May 10, 2007 in Teaneck, New Jersey) was a urologist who did extensive research on the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations, becoming the first medical specialist not affiliated with the United States government to examine the medical evidence related to the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Jerome Groopman has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for "The New Yorker" since 1998. He is also the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of four books. He has published approximately 150 scientific articles and has written several Op-Ed pieces on medicine for the "New York Times", the "Washington Post", …

Dr. Robert Glick is the Director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where he a Supervising and Training Psychoanalyst. He is also a professor of psychiatry at Columbia. Dr. Glick is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale. He received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Glick did his internship at the University of Virginia Hospital, Mixed Medical, …

Dr. John Markowitz is a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he is a leading psychotherapy researcher. He is most widely published in the area of interpersonal therapy or IPT, a manualized form of treatment. Dr. Markowitz is a graduate of Columbia University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.