- Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 - December 24, 1873) was a wealthy entrepreneur and philanthropist of nineteenth century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, such as the Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins, whose nickname was "Johnsie", was the second of eleven children in his Quaker family, … - C. Everett Koop
Vice Admiral Cornelius Everett Koop, M.D. (born October 14 1916 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American physician. He served as the Surgeon General of the United States from 1982 to 1989, under Ronald Reagan's presidency. He was in a sense the first "celebrity Surgeon General" and is probably still the best-known holder of the office. Koop obtained his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College in 1937, where he was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, … - Aram Chobanian
Dr. Chobanian founded the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute in 1973 and oversaw its rapid growth for over 20 years. He is a scientist who has worked on the basic and clinical aspects of cardiovascular disease with particular emphasis on high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis, and he was involved in the introduction of new treatments for hypertension. - Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (1997). He also received the National Medal of Science in 1999 - P. Roy Vagelos
Dr. Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from July 1985 to June 1994. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from April 1986 to November 1994. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975. - 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), … - Thomas Starzl
Thomas Starzl (born March 11, 1926) is an American physician, researcher, and is an expert on organ transplants. He performed the first human liver transplants, and has often been referred to as "the father of modern transplantation." - Edward M. Hundert
Edward M. Hundert, M.D. is a nationally known scholar, educator, psychiatrist, and medical ethicist who was president of Case Western Reserve University, a renowned research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Hundert announced on the evening of March 15, 2006, that he would resign as president of the University effective June 1st, 2006, when he was replaced by Gregory Eastwood. - Margaret Singer
Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. was a clinical psychologist and adjunct professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Dr. Singer's main areas of research included schizophrenia, family therapy, brainwashing and coercive persuasion. Singer performed research at the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center Institute of Research, the National Institute of Mental Health, … - Lubert Stryer
Lubert Stryer is the Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, Emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was a Helen Hay Whitney Research Fellow from 1961 to 1964 before initiating his own research program at Stanford. Following a move to Yale in 1969, he returned to Stanford in September 1976 as the Winzer Professor and is a Professor of Neurobiology (at Stanford) since September 1993. Dr. - Anirvan Ghosh
Anirvan Ghosh is a neuroscientist and Stephen Kuffler professor at the University of California, San Diego. His research has contributed to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate development of the mammalian brain. A major focus of his research has been to identify genes that mediate the effects of sensory experience on brain development. Anirvan Ghosh was born in Bloomington, Indiana but grew up in Kanpur, India. - Philippe Bourgois
Philippe Bourgois (b. 1956) is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He has recently accepted a position at the University of Pennsylvania which he will take up in the 2007-2008 academic year. He has conducted fieldwork in Central America on ethnicity and social unrest and is the author of "Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation" (1989). - Hans Neurath
Hans Neurath (1909-2002) was a biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry and the founding chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle. - Alfred Newton Richards
Alfred Newton Richards (born March 22, 1876 in Stamford, New York; died March 24, 1966) was an American pharmacologist, Richards served as chairman of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology from 1910 to 1946; thereafter he became Professor Emeritus. He also served as Vice-President in charge of Medical Affairs for the University from 1939 to 1948. In 1941 he was appointed as Chairman of the Committee on Medical Research, … - John William Sterling
John William Sterling (May 12, 1844 - July 5, 1918) was a philanthropist, corporate attorney, and major benefactor to Yale University. John William Sterling was born in Stratford, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1864 and was admitted to the bar three years later. He obtained an M.A. degree in 1874 and an LL.D. from Columbia Law School in 1893. He became a corporate lawyer in New York, … - David B. Weishampel
Professor David B. Weishampel (born November 16, 1952) is an American palaeontologist in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Weishampel received his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. His research focuses include dinosaur systematics, European dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous, jaw mechanics and herbivory, cladistics and heterochrony and the history of evolutionary biology. - Cecil O. Samuelson
Cecil Osborn Samuelson, Jr. (b. August 1, 1941) has been the 12th president of Brigham Young University since May 1, 2003. Prior to this appointment he had been a professor of medicine at the University of Utah, dean of the school of medicine there, and vice president of health services. Samuelson's full-time service to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began in 1994 when he was made a General Authority and appointed to the First Quorum of the Seventy. - H. Keith H. Brodie
H. Keith H. Brodie (b. August 24, 1939, New Canaan, Connecticut) is an American psychiatrist, educator, and president emeritus of Duke University. Brodie studied chemistry at Princeton University and medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed an internship in internal medicine at the Ochner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans and a residency in psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. - Patricia Bath
Patricia Era Bath (born November 4, 1942, Harlem, New York) is an ophthalmologist credited as the first African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention. Bath received the patent in 1988 for an "Apparatus for ablating and removing cataract lenses", a version of a device designed to help remove cataracts with a fiberoptic laser. Bath graduated with a baccalaureate degree from Hunter College in 1964, … - Tamara Millay
Tamara Millay is a St. Louis County, Missouri Libertarian Party member and Chairwoman of the St. Louis County Libertarian Central Committee. In past years she has been the party nominee for the U.S. Senate and for the U.S. Congress for the 1st and 9th Congressional Districts and was the elected City Marshal of Greendale, Missouri; she also was the 2006 party nominee for Congress from the 2nd Congressional District, … - Ward Darley
Ward Darley, Jr., M.D. (1903-1979) was an American educator and physician who served as president of the University of Colorado and dean of its medical school. He received his A.B. degree in 1926 and his M.D. in 1929, both from the University of Colorado. As an undergraduate, he was a charter member of Psi Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity. Upon completion of his medical degree, he worked for thirteen years in private practice in Denver. - Stephen Fleck
Stephen Fleck (September 18, 1912-December 19, 2002) was a professor in the Psychiatry and Epidemiology and Public Health Departments at the Yale University School of Medicine from 1953 to 1983 and professor emeritus from 1983 until his death. He had an early effect on the direction that American psychiatry took during the mid- to late-twentieth century. - Victor A. Marcial-Vega
Victor A. Marcial-Vega is a radiation oncologist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is best known for his work in the field of alternative medicine. He graduated with an M.D. from the University of Puerto Rico Medical School in 1984, and completed his internship and residency in radiation oncology in 1988 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He has taught at Washington University and at the University of Miami. - Harry Botterell
Edmund Harry Botterell, O.C., O.B.E., M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.S.(C), (28 February 1906 - 23 June 1997) was a Canadian neurosurgeon and academic administrator. From 1936 to 1939, he taught neurophysiology at the University of Toronto, and was an attending surgeon of Neurosurgery at the Toronto General Hospital, becoming Head from 1953 to 1962. From 1962 to 1970, he was the Dean of School of Medicine at Queen's University. - 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, … - George Britton Halford
George Britton Halford was an English-born anatomist and physiologist, founder of the first medical school in Australia, University of Melbourne School of Medicine. - Modesto Maidique
Dr. Modesto A. Maidique (pronounced may-DEEK, born in Havana, Cuba March 20, 1940) has been the President of Florida International University since 1986, making him by far the longest serving University President in the State of Florida. During this time, Dr. Maidique has led FIU as the University's student enrollment doubled to over 39,000 students, and as the University acquired a School of Architecture, a College of Law, a College of Medicine and a football team. - Frankie Trull
Frankie Trull is an American science advocate, lobbyist and educator. Trull attended Boston University in the 1970s then worked at Tufts University while studying for a Master's Degree in sociology. At Tufts she was among the founding members of the Research Animal Alliance, which later became the National Association for Biomedical Research, … - Edmund D. Pellegrino
Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., was the 11th president of The Catholic University of America and the last layman to hold the position. He is now the Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics. The Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University has come to be closely identified with its founder, Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., M.A.C.P. Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics. - Dean Edell
Dr. Dean Edell is a pioneer in syndicated radio, launching in 1986 one of the first successful nation-wide programs ever. As the first physician whose radio and television programs were syndicated cross country, Dr. Dean Edell finds on-air counseling to millions of listeners extremely satisfying - far more than practicing eye surgery, his chosen field. - Frederick Redlich
Frederick Carl Redlich ("Fritz") (1910 - January 1, 2004) was a psychiatrist and academic administrator. He was dean of the Yale School of Medicine from 1967 to 1972. Redlich was born in Vienna, the son of Ludwig and Emma Redlich, and received his M.D. in 1935 from the University of Vienna. He moved to the United States in 1938 with his wife Elsa (they divorced in 1953) and became a U.S. citizen in 1943. He joined the faculty of Yale in 1942. - Robert Hecht-Nielsen
Robert Hecht-Nielsen is an adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He co-founded HNC Software, and became a vice president of R&D at Fair Isaac Corporation when it acquired the company. In March, 2005, he held an event to announce "the fundamental mechanism of cognition", which he believes is a process of confabulation. He posits that all actions and thoughts begin as the "winners" of competitions, … - Julius Richmond
Dr. Julius B. Richmond was the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus at Harvard University. From 1983 to 1988 he was Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education at Harvard University. He served as Professor of Child Psychiatry and Human Development at the Harvard Medical School as well as Chairman of Psychiatry at Children's Hospital and Director of the Judge Baker Children's Center from 1971-77. - George Demiris
George Demiris, Ph.D. , is Assistant Professor, Department of Health Management and Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia. His focus is on telemedicine and telehome care research and application. Dr. Demiris holds a B.S. and M.S. in medical informatics from Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, and Ph.D. from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St.Paul. - Dr Clark Alan Rosen MD
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Darcy V. Spicer , M.D. Consulting Medical Director Dr. Spicer is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in Medical Oncology at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles. He received his M.D. from the University of Calgary, and completed internship at the University of Western Ontario, and residency at McGill University, Montreal. He was Medical Director of the Clinical Investigation Support Office at the USC Kenneth Norris Jr. - Ruth Ballweg
Ruth Ballweg Ballweg is a physician assistant, associate professor, and director of the MEDEX Northwest Physician Assistant Program in the University of Washington's School of Medicine. She holds a master's degree in public administration from the University of Washington. - David L. Steed
David L. Steed , M.D. Dr. David Steed first arrived at the University of Pittsburgh to pursue his M.D. at the School of Medicine after receiving his B.S. in Chemistry from Geneva College in 1969. Following a one year internship in surgery in 1974, he continued with his first residency in surgery from 1974-1976. - Dr John Alston Kellum Jr MD
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