- William Sears
William Sears (born c. 1940) is an American pediatrician, the author or co-author of more than 30 parenting books, most notably several in the "Sears Parenting Library." He is a frequent guest on television talkshows, where he goes by the name Dr. Bill. He and his wife Martha Sears, R.N., are among the leading proponents of the attachment parenting philosophy. - Benjamin Spock
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. - T. Berry Brazelton
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. - Paul Offit
Paul A. Offit, MD, is a pediatrician specializing in infectious disease medicine, an internationally known expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology, the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. - Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben (born January 4, 1962) is an American, Jewish author of mystery novels. - Hans Asperger
Hans Asperger was the Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome is named. - Richard Ferber
Dr. Richard Ferber is the director of The Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders, at Children's Hospital Boston. He is best known for his methods - popularly called Ferberization - that purports to teach young infants learn how to fall asleep on their own, which are described in his book "Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems". - Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande (b. 1965 in Brooklyn, NY) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker magazine and the online magazine "Slate." He has also written for "New England Journal of Medicine". - Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (July 22, 1878 or 1879 - August, 1942) was a Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogist, known as "Old Doctor" ("Stary Doktor"). - Roy Meadow
Samuel Roy Meadow is a former British paediatrician best known for his 1977 academic paper on Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP), in which parents are said to fabricate their child's illness, and his dictum that "“one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder, until proved otherwise“", which became known as Meadow's Law. - Neal Halsey
Neal Halsey, MD (b. 1950), is a pediatrician, with subspecialty training in infectious diseases and epidemiology, and a professor of international health and Director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Halsey is an advocate for change in immunization programs and vaccination schedules to improve the safety of vaccines for children. - Clemens von Pirquet
Clemens Peter Freiherr von Pirquet was an Austrian scientist and pediatrician best known for his contributions to the fields of bacteriology and immunology. Born in Vienna, he studied theology at the University of Innsbruck and philosophy at the University of Leuven before he enrolled at the University of Graz where he became a doctor of medicine in 1900. He started practicing at the Children's Clinic in Vienna. - Edward Yazbak
F. Edward Yazback, M.D., F.A.A.P., is retired pediatrician who writes regularly about autism and vaccines, particularly on websites. He was a well-known pediatrician in Greater Woonsocket and school physician in Woonsocket and North Smithfield, Rhode Island,before retiring several years ago. He is now based in Falmouth, Massachusetts, where he studies the medical histories of children with autism spectrum disorders. Dr. - Leonid Roshal
Leonid Mikhailovich Roshal (b. April 27, 1933 in Livny) is a noted pediatrician from Moscow, Russia, expert for World Health Organization, chairman of International Task Force of Pediatric Disaster Medicine in World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine. Dr. Roshal has been leading the Emergency Surgery & Children's Trauma Department of Moscow's Pediatric Scientific Research Institute since 1981. - Neil Z. Miller
Neil Z. Miller is an American medical research journalist, a natural health advocate based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of numerous articles and books on vaccines, the publisher of the "New Atlantean Press", and the director of the Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute. Miller is a frequent guest on radio and TV talk shows, where he often debates doctors and government health officials, and he lectures widely throughout the US. Miller, … - Paul M. Fleiss
Paul Murray Fleiss M.D. (b. 8 September 1933) is a pediatrician at the Children's Hospital Los Angeles. He earned his B.S. in pharmacy from Wayne State University, his M.D. from the University of California, Irvine, and his M.P.H. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several articles and numerous letters published in medical journals (see below). Fleiss is a Jewish intactivist-one who promotes genital integrity of children, … - Herbert Needleman
Herbert Needleman, MD, known for research studies on the neurodevelopmental damages caused by lead poisoning, is a pediatrician, child psychiatrist, researcher and professor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, and the founder of the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning (now known as the Alliance for Healthy Homes). Dr. - Robert S. Mendelsohn
Robert S. Mendelsohn, MD, (b. 1926, d.1988) was an American pediatrician who criticized his profession, inveighing against pediatric practice, obstetric orthodoxy and the effect of the preponderance of male obstetricians, and vaccination. He also opposed water fluoridation, coronary bypass surgery, licensing of nutritionists, and the routine use of X-Rays. For 12 years, Mendelsohn was an instructor at Northwestern University Medical College, … - Gianna Beretta Molla
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla (October 4, 1922 - April 28, 1962) was an Italian pediatrician, wife and mother who is best known for refusing both an abortion and a hysterectomy when she was pregnant with her fourth child, despite warnings that continuing with the pregnancy could result in her death. She was canonized as a saint of the Catholic Church in 2004. - Mark Vonnegut
Mark Vonnegut (born ca. 1948) is an American pediatrician and writer. He is the son of the late writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr. He describes himself in the preface to his book as "a hippie, son of a counterculture hero, B.A. in religion, (with a) genetic disposition to schizophrenia." Mark Vonnegut graduated from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, in 1969 at the age of 21. - Joycelyn Elders
Minnie Joycelyn Elders, M.D., M.S., (born August 13, 1933) was the United States Surgeon General from September 8, 1993 to December 31, 1994, most famous for her outspokenness on sensitive issues of public health. - Arnold Gesell
Dr. Arnold Lucius Gesell (21 June 1880 - 29 May 1961) was a psychologist and pediatrician. He was a pioneer in the field of child development. Gesell was born in Alma, Wisconsin, whose dysgenic qualities Gesell later analysed in "The Village of a Thousand Souls". He was the eldest of five children and the son of a photographer and a teacher, individuals who were both interested in education. - Gideon Koren
Gideon Koren, MD, FACMT, FRCP(C) (born 1947) is a Canadian pediatrician, clinical pharmacologist, and toxicologist. - Theodor Escherich
Theodor Escherich (29 November 1857 - 15 February 1911) was a German-Austrian pediatrician and a professor at universities in Munich, Graz, and Vienna. He discovered the bacterium "Escherichia coli", which was named after him in 1919, and determined its properties. He was born in Ansbach, Mittelfranken, Germany and he died in Vienna, Austria. - Leila Denmark
Leila Alice (Daughtry) Denmark (born February 1, 1898) is an American pediatrician who became the oldest practicing pediatrician in the world, retiring at the age of 104 in 2002. Born in Portal, Georgia, Denmark is the oldest of 12 children. She attended Tift College in Forsyth, Georgia, where she trained to be a teacher, but decided to attend medical school when her fiance, John E. Denmark, was posted to Java, … - Beat Richner
Dr. Beat Richner (born March 13, 1947) is a Swiss pediatrician, cellist (Beatocello), and founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia. Richner worked at the Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital in Phnom Penh in 1974 and 1975. When the Khmer Rouge overran Cambodia, he was forced to return to Switzerland. In 1991, Richner returned to Cambodia and saw the devastation that had taken place during his absence. He was asked to re-open the children's hospital. - Guido Fanconi
Guido Fanconi was a Swiss pædiatrician. He was born in Poschiavo, Canton Grisons (Graubünden) in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland. Fanconi is regarded as one of the founders of modern paediatrics. He received his secondary school education in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. In 1911, he began his medical training in Lausanne (French Switzerland). In 1920, he entered the Kinderspital (Children's Hospital) of the University of Zurich, where, … - Arthur Krigsman
Arthur Krigsman , MD attended medical school at the State University of New York at Brooklyn, and completed his pediatric residency at SUNY Brooklyn - Kings County Medical Center. He holds dual board certification in General Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology. - Antoine Marfan
Antoine Bernard-Jean Marfan was a French pediatrician. He was born in Castelnaudary (département Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon) to Antoine Prosper and Adélaïde Thuries. He began his medical studies in Toulouse, where he stayed for two years before moving to Paris. He graduated in 1886, his education having been interrupted by a period of military service. In 1914 he became Professor of Infantile Hygiene in the paediatric clinic of the University of Paris In 1896, … - Eduard Verhagen
Eduard Verhagen is clinical director of pediatrics at the University of Groningen. He is mainly known for his involvement in infant euthanasia in the Netherlands. Euthanasia, while legal for adults, is illegal for children under the age of 12 in the Netherlands. Verhagen, who studied law and medicine, worked out a protocol with prosecutors and doctors in 2002 for infant euthanasia cases. - Widukind Lenz
Widukind Lenz (1919-1995) was a distinguished German pediatrician, medical geneticist and dysmorphologist who was among the first to recognize the thalidomide syndrome in 1961 and alert the world to the dangers of limb and other malformations due to the mother's exposure to this drug during pregnancy. In the ensuing years, Lenz did much important work on the thalidomide syndrome. He also did work of value in clinical genetics and cytogenetics. - Robert Debré
Robert Debré was a French physician (pediatrician) of note. He gave his name to the most important pediatric hospital in Paris (19th district). A member of the Académie de Médecine, he was a colleague and close friend of professors Jean Quenu and Albert Besson. He is the father and grandfather of government ministers; see Debré family. In 1946, he wrote with Pr. Paul Rohmer a famous manual entitled "Traité de Pathologie Infantile" (2500 pages, … - Béla Schick
Béla Schick, was a Hungarian-born American pediatrician. He is the founder of the Schick test. Was born in Balatonbolgar, Hungary, and brought up in Graz, Austria, where he attended medical school. In 1902 he joined the Medicine Faculty of the University of Vienna where he remained until 1923. Studying problems of immunity, he and a colleague first coined the term 'allergy' as a clinical entity. - Charles Scriver
Charles Robert Scriver, C.C., G.O.Q., M.D.C.M., F.R.S., F.R.S.C. (born November 7, 1930) is an eminent Canadian pediatrician and biochemical geneticist. Scriver made many important contributions to our knowledge of inborn errors of metabolism. He led in establishing a nationwide newborn metabolic screening program that is considered a landmark in applying the results of research to children's health across an entire nation. - Max Stern
Dr. Max Stern is a professional poker player, pediatrician and author. He is the coauthor of "Championship Stud" together with Tom McEvoy and Linda Johnson. Stern contributed to the sections on Seven-card stud and Seven Card Stud (8 or better) tournament and ring game play. Stern is considered to be a Texas hold 'em, Seven Card Stud, and Omaha Hi/lo specialist. He has won three World Series of Poker bracelets. His basic poker philosophy is "In order to survive, … - Rivka Carmi
Dr. Rivka Carmi (born 1948) is an Israeli pediatrician and geneticist who, since December 2005, is the president of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. She is the first woman president of an Israeli university. Before being appointed president, Carmi served (from 2000 to 2005) as the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (and she was also the first woman in Israel to serve in that capacity). - Richard Goldbloom
Richard B. Goldbloom, O.C., M.D., C.M., F.R.C.P.(C) (born 1924) is a Canadian pediatrician, university professor, and the fifth Chancellor of Dalhousie University. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was educated at Selwyn House School and Lower Canada College. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1945 and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1949 from McGill University. He did his post-graduate medical education at the Royal Victoria Hospital, … - Derrick Lonsdale
Derrick Lonsdale (born 1924) M.D., Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), Fellow of the American College for Advancement in Medicine (FACAM) is a pediatrician and researcher into the benefits of certain nutrients in preventing disease and psychotic behavior. - Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson (born in 1948) is an English writer and playwright living in Scotland, best known as author of "The Gruffalo" and other children's books, many illustrated in cartoon style by German Axel Scheffler. Of the 79 books that she has written, 67 have been published: 29 are widely available in bookshops, and the remaining 38 are for schools. Her book "The Snail and the Whale" was named by Gordon Brown as one of his favourite books. - Ola Didrik Saugstad
Ola Didrik Saugstad (born March 5, 1947) is a leading Norwegian pediatrician. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Oslo, Consultant in new-born medicine and Director of the Department of Pediatric Research at the National Hospital. He finished medical school in Oslo in 1973 and earned a doctoral research degree (dr. med.) in 1977. He became a Consultant in 1986 and a Professor in 1991.
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