- Eugene A. Stead
Dr. Eugene Anson Stead Jr. (b. October 6, 1908, Atlanta, Georgia - d. June 12, 2005) is best known as a medical educator, researcher, and the founder of the Physician Assistant or P.A. profession. He served on the faculty at Harvard, Emory (where he received a Bachelor of Science and MD degree), and Duke universities. His research in the 1940's paved the way for cardiac catheterization in medicine today. National PA day is celebrated in many places on October 6th, …
- Mehmet Oz
Dr. Mehmet Oz (born June 11, 1960) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and author. Oz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Turkish parents, and was educated at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware, received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1982 and obtained a joint MD and MBA degree in 1986 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and The Wharton School. Oz is Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University.
- Willem Einthoven
Willem Einthoven (Semarang, May 21, 1860 - Leiden, September 29, 1927) was a Dutch Lutheran doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it. Einthoven was born in Semarang on Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). His father, a medical doctor, died when Einthoven was a child. His mother returned to the Netherlands with her children in 1870 and settled in Utrecht.
- Arthur Li
Prof. Arthur Kwok Cheung Li <small> GBS JP</small>; (born 1945 in Hong Kong with family roots in Heshan, Guangdong) was a member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Secretary for Education and Manpower from August 2002 to June 2007, when he was not re-appointed following allegations of interference into academic freedom at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
- Joel Brind
Dr. Joel Brind is a pro-life born again Christian and a leading scientific advocate of the abortion-breast cancer hypothesis. He is a professor of biology and endocrinology at Baruch College and critiques ABC studies. Brind was an invitee to the National Cancer Institute's conference on the ABC issue where he filed the minority dissenting comment. Brind has been mischaracterized by some pro-choice advocates and publications.
- Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein is Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at University of California, San Diego and Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He receives grant funding from the NIH, the Johns Hopkins ALS Center, the HighQ Foundation, and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Goldstein received his B.A. degree in biology and genetics from UCSD in 1976 and his Ph.D. degree in genetics from the University of Washington, …
- Daniel G. Davis
Daniel G. Davis, DO is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY and the Surgical Director of the Center for Obesity Surgery at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ. Dr. Davis is a leading researcher of laparoscopic bariatric surgery and minimally invasive treatment of gastrointestinal disease (CS JJSS 2004). Currently, Dr.
- Michael Welner
Michael Welner, M.D. (born September 24 1964 in Pittsburgh, PA) is one of America’s most highly regarded forensic psychiatrists. He has pioneered several important advances in forensic science, consulted as lead examiner on some of the most critical and complex cases in America in recent years, has written groundbreaking pieces on cutting edge areas of forensic psychiatry and public policy, and has been recognized by various government, law, mental health, …
- J. Dean Cole
J. Dean Cole is the Medical Director at Florida Hospital Orthopaedic Institute Fracture Care Center. Dr. Cole has pioneered the minimally invasive approach to treating orthopaedic trauma as well as invented new types of implants and devices to aid in successful surgery outcomes. His skill and commitment to improve patient care is clearly seen in his chosen specialties and device development. Raised in Titusville, Florida, Dr. Cole attended Rollins College in Winter Park, …
- Tom Hornbein
Thomas "Tom" Hornbein is a well known American mountaineer. Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1930, Hornbein developed an interest in geology as a teenager. His study of geology led to a fascination with mountains. Eventually he also became interested in medicine; he studied and worked as an anesthesiologist. He studied human physiological limits and performance at high altitude.
- Caspar Bartholin The Elder
Caspar Bartholin "the Elder" was for many years a standard textbook on the subject of anatomy. He was the first to describe the workings of the olfactory nerve. Of his sons, two, Thomas and Erasmus, were also noted scholars.
- Gunning S. Bedford
Gunning S. Bedford (1806 - 5 September 1870) was a Medical writer, teacher and founder of the United States' first obstetrical clinic for those too poor to pay a doctor's fee. Dr. Bedford graduated in 1825 at Mount Saint Mary's University (then Mount Saint Mary's College), Emmitsburg, Maryland, and took his medical degree from Rutgers College. He spent two years studying abroad and in 1833 became professor of obstetrics in Charleston Medical College.
- Joseph Pancoast
Joseph Pancoast (November 23, 1805- March 6, 1882) was a renowned American surgeon. His name is eponymic to the practice of surgery, in general, and plastic surgery, in particular. Pancoast was responsible for many seminal advancements in surgery which he described, and were depicted graphically, in numerous scholarly articles and books. His greatest work, "Treatise on Operative Surgery", was published in 1844.
- Leopold Saverio Vaccaro
Leopold Saverio Vaccaro was a noted surgeon and scientist who was decorated for assisting with the reconstruction of Italy in the aftermath of World War I. Vaccaro immigrated to the United States from his native Italy as a child. He took his medical training at the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, graduating in 1916. In the first years of his career, he worked as a staff surgeon at munitions plants run by E.I. DuPont de Numours Co., …
- Kathie-Ann Joseph
Kathie-Ann P. Joseph, MD is the Director of Research in General Surgery and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. She is the first African-American woman appointed a faculty member in the Department of Surgery at Columbia (Fox 2005). Dr. Joseph received her AB degree from Harvard University, and while there won the prestigious Hoopes Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for her senior thesis in 1991 (Fox 2005).
- Rasmus Bartholin
Rasmus Bartholin (Latinized "Erasmus Bartholinus"; August 13, 1625 - November 4, 1698) was a Danish scientist and physician. As part of his studies, he travelled in Europe for ten years. Professor at Copenhagen University, first in Geometry, later in Medicine. He was a younger brother of Thomas Bartholin. Rasmus Bartholin is remembered especially for his discovery (1669) of the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar (calcite).
- Bernard Lown
Bernard Lown, M.D. was the original developer of the defibrillator and is an internationally known peace activist. Born in Lithuania, he emigrated at age 13 with his parents to the US, initially to Maine shortly before the outbreak of World War II, and subsequently studied to become a specialist in cardiology.
- Marc Bessler
Marc Bessler, MD is a bariatric surgeon in New York City. He is currently the Director of the New York Presbyterian Center for Obesity Surgery, the Director of Laparoscopic Surgery, and the Director of Network Relationships Division of General Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Bessler specializes in surgical management of morbid obesity, gastroesophageal reflux disease, laparoscopic surgery of the stomach, …
- Rakesh Jain
Dr. Rakesh K. Jain is the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jain primarily researches tumor pathophysiology. His work on cancer therapies led to discovery of an alternate use of Herceptin, an anti-tumor cell pharmaceutical compound produced by Genentech, as an inhibitor for blood vessel growth necessary for tumor growth.
- Realdo Colombo
Matteo Realdo Colombo or Renaldus Columbus (c. 1516 - 1559) was an Italian professor of anatomy and a surgeon at the University of Padua between 1544 and 1559.
- Maurizio Miglietta
Maurizio A. Miglietta, DO is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Columbia Universtiy College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Chief of the Division of Acute Care Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Miglietta plans to establish the first ever adult trauma section at NewYork-Presbyterian which will contain three sections: trauma surgery, surgical critical care, and emergency surgery.
- Gasparo Tagliacozzi
Gasparo Tagliacozzi (1546 - November 7, 1599) was an Italian surgeon. Tagliacozzi was born in Bologna. He studied at the University of Bologna under Jerome Cardan, taking his degree in philosophy and medicine at the age of twenty-four. He was appointed professor of surgery and afterwards of anatomy, and achieved notoriety at least, and the fame of a wonder-worker. He died at Bologna in 1599.
- Stefano Zerafa
Stefano Zerafa was born at Gharghur on 9 October, 1791. While pursuing his higher education, he lived at Bishop Street, Valletta, and later resided at Zurrieq with his sister. When he married, he settled in Valletta. From 1815 lo 1856 he was Professor of Medicine, Physiology, Pathology and Natural History at the University of Malta. During these years he was also in charge of the Argotti Botanic Gardens at Floriana. Professor Zerafa was an avid collector of Maltese plants, …
- Graeme Catto
Graeme Catto MD DSc FRCP FMedSci FRSE is a Scottish doctor who is currently President of the General Medical Council. He is also currently Professor in Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Aberdeen and an honorary Consultant nephrologist at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
- Yoshifumi Naka
Yoshifumi Naka, MD, PhD is the Director of the Cardiac Transplantation Program and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY. Dr. Naka specializes in general adult cardiac surgery, adult cardiac surgery for coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, heart/lung transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support device implantation.
- Sundaram Ramakrishnan
Sundaram Ramakrishnan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is involved in the human ovarian cancer research.
- Henry Spotnitz
Henry M. Spotnitz, M.D, "George H. Humphrey II Professor of Surgery", is chairman of the Columbia University Medical Center Conflict of Interest Committee, co-chair of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Information Systems Clinical Advisory Committee, chair of the Information Technology Committee of the Faculty Practice Organization, and Vice-Chair for Research and Information Systems in the Department of Surgery. Supported by NIH funding, Dr.
- Niels Kaj Jerne
Niels Kaj Jerne FRS was a Danish (English-born) immunologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1984. The citation read "For theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies". He shared the prize with Georges J. F. Köhler and César Milstein.
- Jean Emond
Jean C. Emond, MD is the current "Thomas S. Zimmer Professor of Surgery" and Vice Chair for Operations and Quality Management at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. Emond was a key member of the team that performed the first living donor liver transplantation in children in North America (CUMC LiverMD 2007).
- Craig Heller
Craig Heller is a physiologist and biologist, currently a professor at Stanford University. He has worked primarily on circadian rhythms and homeostasis. He is also credited with inventing a vacuum cooling device used to cool core body temperature and increase muscle performance, which has been used for athletes at Stanford, for the University of Miami Hurricanes, and for boxer Sugar Shane Mosley.
- Henry Alan Skinner
Henry Alan Skinner was a Canadian who authored "The Origin of Medical Terms", published by The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore in 1949. At the time, he was a professor of anatomy at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
- Jeffrey Ascherman
Jeffrey A. Ascherman, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery and the Site Chief for the Division of Plastic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, where he has been an active member of the full time-faculty since 1995. Dr. Ascherman graduated from Harvard University in 1984 with a B.A. degree in Engineering Sciences, …
- Dominique Jan
Dominique M. Jan, MD is a current Professor of Clinical Surgery and Attending Surgeon at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY. He specializes in small bowel transplantation and liver transplantation. In 2004, Dr. Jan established a new rehabilitation and transplant service for children with liver and small bowel diseases. Its team approach is unique in the U.S., combining the efforts of a pediatric surgeon, …
- Spencer Amory
Spencer E. Amory, MD, FACS, is the Chief of the Division of General Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. He is best known for his techniques in laparoscopic cholecystectomy that have enabled his group to have the lowest open cholecystectomy rates in the state. In addition, Dr. Amory has earned a reputation for his diagnostic insight in complex surgical problems and for highly individualized and personalized care.
- Harold Saxton Burr
Harold Saxton Burr (April 18, 1889, Lowell, Massachusetts-February 17, 1973) was E. K. Hunt Professor of Anatomy at Yale University School of Medicine. Burr was a member of the faculty of medicine for over forty-three years. From 1916 to the late 1950s, he published, either alone or with others, more than ninety-three scientific papers. Burr is most well known for his claim, that all living things are molded and controlled by electro-dynamic fields, …
- Albert L. Lehninger
Albert Lester Lehninger was an American biochemist, and is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of bioenergetics. He made fundamental contributions to the current understanding of metabolism at a molecular level. In 1950 he discovered with Eugene Kennedy that mitochondria are the site of oxidative phosphorylation in eukaryotes, which ushered in the modern study of energy transduction. He is the author of a number of classic texts, including: "Biochemistry, …
- Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz
Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz (April 14, 1834 - 1894) - Russian anatomist and histologist, professor of the Kiev University, famous for the discovery of giant pyramidal neurons of primary motor cortex. Vladimir Betz began his education in the Nezhin Gymnasium. Later he transferred to the 2nd Kiev Gymnasium and graduated from it in 1853.
- John W. Semple
John W. Semple is a Scientist at St. Michael's Hospital and a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Toronto. He was born in Windsor, Ontario and received his PhD in Immunology at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario. In 1991, Semple discovered a T helper cell defect (Semple JW et al. Blood.
- John G. Taylor
John G. Taylor is Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for Neural Networks at King's College, University of London, and Guest Scientist of the Research Centre at the Institute of Medicine in Jülich, Germany. He is author of "The Race for Consciousness".
- Leonard Shlain
Leonard Shlain is a surgeon and author of three books. He is the Chairman of Laparoscopic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and is an Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF. He lives in Mill Valley, California, is married to Ina Gyemant and has three children: Kimberly Brooks, Jordan L. Shlain MD and Tiffany Shlain.