- Jerome Groopman
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", …
- Mark McClellan
Mark Barr McClellan (born June 26, 1963) was sworn in as Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the United States Department of Health and Human Services on March 25, 2004. In this position, he was responsible for administering the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Following the resignation of Health & Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson in 2004, McClellan was mentioned as a possible replacement, …
- Marcia Angell
Marcia Angell , M. D., is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine on June 30, 2000. A graduate of Boston University School of Medicine, she trained in both internal medicine and anatomic pathology and is a board-certified pathologist.
- David Ho
David Da-i Ho (born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients with his team.
- Gerald Reaven
Gerald M. "Jerry" Reaven is an American endocrinologist and professor emeritus in medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California. A long-term researcher into diabetes, he achieved significant notability with his 1988 Banting Lecture (organised annually by the American Diabetes Association in memory of Frederick Banting). In his lecture, he propounded the theory that central obesity (male-type or apple-shaped obesity), …
- Peter A. Singer
Peter A. Singer, MD, MPH, FRCPC, is Senior Scientist and Co-Director of the Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network; Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto; and a Distinguished Investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
- Arnold S. Relman
Dr. Arnold S. Relman, M.D. is a professor emeritus of medicine and of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. He is a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine (1977-91) and writes extensively on medical publishing and reform of the U.S. health care system.
- James S. Tan
Dr. James S. Tan (died May 25, 2006) was an American medical doctor who specialized in infectious diseases, immunology, and internal medicine. He was the author of several medical books and many medical articles. He was affiliated with Summa Health System. His books include "Microbiology and Immunology" (Mosby 2002), and the "Rapid Response" medical-student review for it (Mosby 2006, …
- Kevin Campbell
Kevin P. Campbell, Ph.D. is an Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UI Foundation Distinguished Professor, the Roy J. Carver Chair of Physiology and Biophysics, and head of the department; and professor of neurology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa.
- William Winkenwerder Jr.
William Winkenwerder, Jr. served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs beginning in October 2001, following nomination by President George W. Bush and confirmation by the U.S. Senate, In this position, Dr. Winkenwerder is responsible for overall supervision of the health and medical affairs of the Department of Defense (DoD). He serves as the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for all DoD health policies, programs, and activities, …
- Tinsley Randolph Harrison
Tinsley Randolph Harrison (March 18, 1900 - August 4, 1978) was a US physician and editor of the first five editions of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. Harrison was born in Talladega, Alabama on March 18, 1900. He was the son of Groce Harrison, himself a sixth-generation physician. Having graduated from high school at the age of 15, Harrison attended the University of Michigan, …
- Antonia Novello
Vice Admiral Antonia Coello Novello M.D. (born Antonia Coello, August 23, 1944 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico), served as the United States Surgeon General from 1990 to 1993. Novello received her B.S. degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras in 1965 and her M.D. degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine at San Juan in 1970.
- Melvyn Rubenfire
Melvyn Rubenfire is a renowned cardiologist in the University of Michigan Health System, as well as a professor in the department of internal medicine. He is also director of the Preventive Cardiology department.
- Peter G. Traber
Peter G. Traber , M.D. President & CEO Baylor College of Medicine Peter G. Traber , M.D. is President and Chief Executive Officer of Baylor College of Medicine and Professor of Medicine, positions he has held since March 2003. Dr. Traber has had a long career in academic medicine involved in patient care, education, and research as well as leadership positions in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Gary I. Wadler
Gary I. Wadler is an internist with special expertise in the field of drug use in sports. The lead author of the book Drugs and the Athlete, Gary Wadler currently serves on the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Prohibited List and Methods Committee and has served on its Health, Medicine, and Research Committee. Additionally, he has served as: Medical Advisor to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, …
- Solomon Berson
Solomon Aaron Berson (22 April 1918 - 11 April 1972) was an American physician and scientist whose discoveries, mostly together with Rosalyn Yalow, caused major advances in clinical biochemistry. Born in New York City, Berson was a keen musician and chess player.
- Catherine Otto
Prof. Catherine M. Otto is an internationally recognized echocardiography specialist, Director of Training Programs in Cardiovascular Disease at Cardiology Division, University of Washington Medical Center, author of famous echocardiography textbooks. The major fields she's working in are valvular heart disease, adult congenital heart disease and echocardiography. She took her education at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1975 (B.A.), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, …
- Reza Malekzadeh
Reza Malekzadeh (born 1952, Fars province, Iran) is an Iranian (Persian) medical scientist and gastroentrologist. Malekzadeh studied medicine at Shiraz University. He continued his studies to become specialized in Internal Medicine in Shiraz University where he did as well his fellowship in gastroentrology. In 1985, he joined the department of gastroenterology at Free Royal Hospital in London.
- Robin Armstrong
Robin Armstrong (born 1969) is a Dickinson, Texas, physician who is the vice chairman of the Republican Party of Texas. Armstrong was elected at the state convention held in San Antonio on June 3, 2006, to succeed the term-limited David Barton of Aledo in Parker County. He defeated Internet grassroots organzer, Bobby Eberle of Pearland. He will serve a two-year term with current chairman Tina Benkiser, an attorney from Houston.
- Thomas Addis
Thomas Addis (July 27, 1881 - June 4, 1949) was a physician-scientist who made important advances in the understanding of how blood clots. He was a pioneer in the field of nephrology, the branch of internal medicine that deals with diseases of the kidney. Addis was the first to demonstrate that normal plasma could correct the defect in haemophilia. Thomas Chalmers Addis Jr. was the son of the Rev.
- Peter Beighton
Peter Beighton, a medical geneticist, was born in England in 1934 and qualified in medicine in 1957 at the University of London's St Mary's Hospital. After several internships, Beighton served as a Medical Officer in the Parachute Regiment and with the United Nations forces during the Congo crisis. In 1962 Beighton began training in internal medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in London. Beighton had a research fellowship in clinical genetics in 1968-69 with Dr.
- Geoffrey Keynes
Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (March 25, 1887 in Cambridge - July 5, 1982, in Cambridge) was an English surgeon, physician, scholar and bibliophile. He was the younger brother of the economist John Maynard Keynes.
- Gerhard Buchwald
Gerhard Buchwald, born 15 February 1920, is a German medical doctor specialized in internal medicine and pulmonology. Buchwald studied medicine in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), Danzig (now Gdansk) und Jena und obtained his doctorate at Hamburg university. From 1970 to 1982 he was senior physician at the "Klinik Franken" of the "Bundesversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte" in Bad Steben, Germany, …
- Ethan Canin
Ethan Andrew Canin (born July 19, 1960 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American author. The title story of his collection of short stories "The Palace Thief" was made into a movie called "The Emperor's Club". In addition to his writing, Canin is also a physician and a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
- Gil Omenn
Gilbert Omenn, M.D., Ph.D is Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health at the University of Michigan. He is the director of the UM Center for Computational Medicine & Biology and the Proteomics Alliance for Cancer Research. He served as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs and as Chief Executive Officer of the University of Michigan Health System from 1997 to 2002. He was formerly Dean of the School of Public Health, …
- Albert Fraenkel
Albert Fraenkel was a German physician who helped establish "Streptococcus pneumoniae" as a cause of bacterial pneumonia and championed intravenous ouabain for use in heart failure. The "Albert-Fraenkel-Plakette" (Albert Fraenkel award) is given to German-speaking cardiologists who have excelled in the field. Born in 1864 in Mußbach an der Weinstraße, Albert was the son of a Jewish merchant.
- Heinrich Quincke
Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (26 August 1842 - 19 May 1922) was a German internist and surgeon. His main contribution to internal medicine was the introduction of the lumbar puncture for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. After 1874, his main area of research was pulmonary medicine. Born at Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, Heinrich was the son of prominent physician Hermann Quincke and the younger brother of physicist Georg Hermann Quincke.
- Otfrid Foerster
Otfrid Foerster was a German neurologist and neurosurgeon, who made innovative contributions to neurology and neurosurgery, such as rhizotomy for the treatment of spasticity, anterolateral cordotomy for pain, the hyperventilation test for epilepsy, Foerster's syndrome, the first electrocorticogram of a brain tumor, and the first surgeries for epilepsy.
- Elizabeth H. Field
Elizabeth Hirak Field, M.D., is an academic scholar and professor in the University of Iowa’s Department of Internal Medicine. She received her BS in Physics (Magna Cum Laude) from Millersville University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Field received her MD degree from Penn State's Hershey Medical Center where she also performed her residency in Internal Medicine.
- Max Nonne
Max Nonne (born January 13 1861, Hamburg - died 1959) was a German neurologist. Max Nonne studied in Heidelberg, Freiburg, and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at Hamburg University in 1884. He was assistant physician in the medical clinic in Heidelberg under Wilhelm Heinrich Erb, in the surgical clinic in Kiel under Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch and in 1889 settled in Hamburg as a neurologist.
- Zbylut Twardowski
Zbylut Twardowski is a Polish physician, known for his pioneering work on Dialysis. He is associated with the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
- Gretta Duisenberg
Gretta Duisenberg (born 1942) is a Dutch activist, known chiefly for her marriage to ECB-banker Wim Duisenberg and pro-Palestinian activities. From 1987 until his death on July 31, 2005, she was married to the Dutch economist Wim Duisenberg, the first president (1999-2003) of the European Central Bank. Duisenberg was born Gretta Nieuwenhuizen into a strict Protestant family in Amsterdam. She later studied nursing. Her first marriage was to the internist Bedier de Prairie, …
- Paul Morawitz
Paul Oskar Morawitz was a German internist and physiologist whose most important work was in studying the coagulation of blood. He was born to August Morawitz (1837-1897) and Charlotte Morawitz "née" Bergholz (1858-1939). He married Erna Arnold (1890-1979). After completing his medical studies at Leipzig (in 1901) he completed his army service, then joined Dr Ludolf von Krehl in Tübingen as an assistant physician.
- Ava Shamban
Ava Shamban M.D. is one of Los Angeles' better known physicians. She graduated from Harvard University and Case Western Reserve Medical School. She has been a Clinical Assistant Professor at U.C.L.A. since 1990. She is board-certified in Dermatology, is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Dermatological Society and the American Society for Laser Surgery.
- Dan Doornink
Dan Doornink (born February 1, 1956 in Yakima, Washington) is a former professional American football player who played running back for eight seasons for the New York Giants and Seattle Seahawks. He ran for 123 yards in a playoff win over the Los Angeles Raiders in 1984. He is now a M.D. and practices Internal Medicine in Yakima, WA.
- Gilbert R. Lavoie
Gilbert R. Lavoie is a medical doctor and non-fiction writer. Lavoie studied medicine at the Medical College of Virginia and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He is board certified in internal medicine and occupational medicine. Lavoie has studied the Shroud of Turin, the reputed burial cloth of Jesus Christ, for more than twenty years and has written two books on his findings as well as other original studies.
- Lars E. Hanssen
Lars E. Hanssen (born 26.Mai 1949 Norwegian) Professor of Medicine Lars E. Hanssen Ph.D. has been Director General of Health, Norwegian Board of Health Supervision since 2001. From 1994 to 2001 he was deputy Director General. He came from Rikshospitalet University Hospital, where he held positions as Medical Director and Professor. He holds medical specialities in Internal Medicine (1986), Gastroenterology (1986) and Endocrinology (1989).
- Cecil A. Alport
Dr. Cecil A. Alport (1880-1959) was an English physician who first identified the Alport syndrome in a British family in 1927.
- Jan G. Waldenström
Jan Gösta Waldenström was a Swedish doctor of internal medicine, who first described the disease which bears his name, Waldenström macroglobulinemia. He was born in Stockholm, and arose from a medical family: his father, Johann Henning Waldenström (1877-1972) was a professor of orthopedic surgery in Stockholm, and his grandfather, Johan Anton Waldenström (1839-1879) was professor of internal medicine in Uppsala.
- Luis Manuel Cornejo
Luis Manuel Cornejo is a physician with specialty on Geriatrics and Internal Medicine; professor at Columbus State University, now he has got a clinic, the Hospital Paitilla localized in the capital of Panama, Panama City.