- 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, …
- John La Puma
John La Puma is an Italian-American internist, professionally trained cook, and author. La Puma was born in New York, received his undergraduate degree from the College of Creative Studies in 1978, earned an MD from Baylor College of Medicine and trained in internal medicine in Los Angeles. He completed the first U.S. postgraduate fellowship in medical ethics at the University of Chicago, and became an Clinical Associate Professor.
- Franz Volhard
Franz Volhard was a German internist who was born in Munich. He studied medicine in Bonn, Strasbourg, and Halle. His instructors included Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829-1910), Bernhard Naunyn (1839-1925), Oswald Schmiedeberg (1838-1921), and Joseph von Mering (1849-1908). In 1905 he became head of the medical department at the city hospital in Dortmund, and in 1908 director of the Krankenanstalt in Mannheim.
- Wilhelm Beiglböck
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Beiglböck (born October 10, 1905, Hochneukirchen, Lower Austria, Austria - November 22 1963, Buxtehude, Lower Saxony, Germany), Internist. Consulting Physician to the German Luftwaffe during World War II. Member of the NSDAP and member of the SA (SA Obersturmbannführer). Nazi medical researcher responsible for seawater experiments in Dachau concentration camp. During Nuremberg Doctor's Trial sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, commuted to 10 years.
- 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, …
- Josef Breuer
Josef Breuer was an Austrian physician whose works lay the foundation of psychoanalysis. Born in Vienna, his father, Leopold Breuer, taught religion in Vienna's Jewish community. Breuer's mother died when he was quite young, and he was raised by his maternal grandmother and educated by his father until the age of eight. He graduated from the Akademisches Gymnasium of Vienna in 1858 and then studied at the university for one year, …
- Erwin Bälz
Erwin Bälz was a German internist, anthropologist, personal physician to the Japanese Imperial Family and cofounder of modern (western) medicine in Japan.
- 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, …
- Theodor Brugsch
Theodor Brugsch was a German internist who was born in Graz. He attained "professor extraordinary" in 1910, and practiced medicine at the Charité Hospital in Berlin prior to, and after World War I. From 1927-1935 he was a professor at the University of Halle. In 1935 Brugsch resigned from the university due to the political climate in 1930s Germany, and opened a private practice in Berlin. After World War II, he returned to the Charité, …
- Friedrich Kraus
Friedrich Kraus was an Austrian internist. In 1894 he became a professor at the University of Graz, and was a director at the Charité Hospital in Berlin from 1902 until 1927. Kraus is remembered for introducing electrocardiography and functional diagnostics into German medicine. With his assistant, Georg Friedrich Nicolai (1874-1955), he made several contributions in the field of electrocardiology, and in 1910 published the monograph, …
- Armand Trousseau
Armand Trousseau was a notable French internist who first described the Trousseau sign. The Trousseau sign is an indicator of hypocalcaemia. To induce the sign, a patient's arm is compressed with a blood pressure cuff at 300 mmHg for three minutes. During that time, if the patient's hand undergoes painful carpal spasm then hypocalcaemia should be suspected. Trousseau also described Trousseau's Syndrome.
- Erik Adolf von Willebrand
Erik Adolf von Willebrand (born February 1st, 1870 in Vaasa - died September 12th, 1949 in Pernaja) was an internist from Finland. The son of a district engineer in Vaasa, von Willebrand got his medical degree in the university of Helsinki. He graduated in 1896, and did his doctoral thesis on the changes that occurred in blood following significant blood loss.
- Hermann Schulz
Hermann Schulz (born December 14 1961 in Dresden, Saxony) is a former German figure skater. Hermann Schulz learned his first triple jumps at the club Dresdner DEC. Coached by Ingrid Lehmann he became a world class figure skater. Already with the age of 13 he participated at the European Championships in Copenhagen and ended up on place 8th. He also represented East Germany at the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid.
- Heinrich Curschmann
Heinrich Curschmann (June 28, 1846 - May 6, 1910) was a German internist who was a native of Giessen. Prior to 1888 he worked in hospitals in Berlin and Hamburg. Afterwards he was a professor and lecturer at the University of Leipzig. Curschmann is remembered for the 1894 production of "Klinische Abbildungen" (Clinical Illustrations), which is considered a major pioneer work in medical photography.
- 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.
- Ernst Viktor von Leyden
Ernst Viktor von Leyden was a German internist and educator. Leyden studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Institut in Berlin, and was a pupil of Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793-1864) and Ludwig Traube (1818-1876). He practiced medicine in several locations including Königsberg, Strassburg and Berlin. In the 1890s, he was a physician to Czar Alexander III of Russia.
- 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.
- 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.
- Heinrich von Bamberger
Heinrich von Bamberger was an Austrian pathologist from Prague. In 1847 he earned his doctorate from the University of Prague, and from 1851 to 1854 he was a clinical assistant to Johann von Oppolzer (1808-1871) in Vienna. In 1854 he became professor of therapeutic pathology at the University of Würzburg. He was father to internist Eugen von Bamberger (1858-1921). Bamberger was a specialist regarding respiratory and circulatory pathology, …
- 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.
- Georg Kelling
Georg Kelling (July 7 1866 - 1945) was a German internist and surgeon who was born in Dresden. He studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin. He earned his medical doctorate in 1890, and later worked as a physician at the city hospital in Dresden. Kelling was a specialist concerning gastrointestinal physiology and anatomy. He is credited with performing the first laparoscopic examination, which he called "celioscopy".
- 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.
- C. Thomas Caskey
C. Thomas Caskey is an American internist who has been a prominent medical geneticist and biomedical entrepreneur. He is editor of the "Annual Review of Medicine." Dr. Caskey attended the University of South Carolina (1956-58) and the medical school at Duke University (1958-63). As a medical student, he was a student biochemical fellow (1961-62) with James B. Wyngarden, a pioneer in the study of the biochemical basis of metabolic disease.
- Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt
Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt ; (May 5, 1833 - July 22, 1902) was a German internist who was a native of Speyer. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, earning his doctorate in 1856. Subsequently he was an assistant to Heinrich von Bamberger (1822-1888) and Franz von Rinecker (1811-1883) in Würzburg, and worked under Wilhelm Griesinger (1817-1868) in Tübingen. In 1885 he was successor to pathologist Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819-1885) in Berlin, …
- Henry Stanley Plummer
Henry Stanley Plummer (born March 3, 1874 in Hamilton, Minnesota, died 1937 in Rochester, Minnesota) was a prominent internist and endocrinologist who was instrumental in the founding and flourishing of the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Plummer is also immortalized as the designer of the Plummer Building, which stands to this day in Rochester as a part of the Clinic he helped establish. Plummer-Vinson syndrome is named after him and Porter Paisley Vinson.
- Hans Christian Jacobaeus
Hans Christian Jacobaeus (1879-1937) was a Swedish internist who was born in Skarhult. In 1916 he became a professor at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. From 1925 until his death in 1937, he was a member of the Nobel Prize Committee. Jacobaeus was an important figure concerning modern laparoscopy and thoracoscopy In 1910 he is credited with performing the first thoracoscopic diagnosis with a cystoscope.
- Jacques Forestier
Jacques Forestier (July 27, 1890 - March 15, 1978) was a French internist who was a pioneer in the field of rheumatology. He studied and practiced medicine in Paris, and was founder of the National French Society of Rheumatology. His father, Henri Forestier was a director at the therapeutic spas in Aix-les-Bains. Jacques Forestier is remembered for his introduction of gold salts as a remedy for rheumatoid arthritis.
- Emile Achard
Emile Achard, full name Emile Charles Achard was a French internist. For much of his career he was a professor at the University of Paris. He also was also a physician at Hôpital Cochin in Paris. Achard's name is associated with several facets in medicine. In 1896 with Dr. Raoul Bensaude (1866-1938) he identified a disease he called paratyphoid fever, and was able to isolate the cause to a microbe named "salmonella paratyphi".
- Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser
Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser was a German physician who discovered the causative agent (pathogen) of gonorrhea, a strain of bacteria that was named in his honour. Neisser was born in the Silesian town of Schweidnitz (now Świdnica, in Poland), the son of a well-known Jewish physician, Dr. Moritz Neisser. After he completed the elementary school in Münsterberg, Neisser enrolled in the St. Maria Magdalena School in Breslau (now Wroclaw, in Poland).
- Michael Anton Biermer
Michael Anton Biermer was a German internist who was a native of Bamberg. In 1851 he earned his doctorate from the University of Würzburg, where he was a student of Rudolf Virchow. Later he was a professor at Bern (1861), Zurich (1867) and Breslau (1874-91). Two of his better known students were surgeon Theodor Kocher (1841-1917) in Zurich, and dermatologist Albert Neisser (1855-1916) in Breslau.
- Carl Nothnagel
Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel (September 28, 1841 - July 7, 1905) was a German internist who in 1876 described the irregular pulse associated with atrial fibrillation. At the time he referred to this discovery as "delirium cordis". From 1858 until 1863 Nothnagel studied under Ludwig Traube (1818-1876) and Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) at the "Friedrich Wilhelms-Institut" in Berlin.
- Felix von Niemeyer
Felix von Niemeyer was a German internist born in Magdeburg. He studied medicine at the University of Halle and in 1844 became a physician in Magdeburg. Later, he was a professor of internal medicine at the University of Griefswald, (1855and at the University of Tübingen (1860). During the Franco-Prussian War he was a medical consultant.
- Georg Friedrich Nicolai
Georg Friedrich Nicolai (1874-1964) was a German physiologist who studied at the University of Berlin, and later practiced medicine in Berlin. He admired the works of physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, and with internist Friedrich Kraus published a book on electrocardiography titled "Das Elektrokardiogramm des gesunden und kranken Menschen". In 1914, at the onset of World War I, Nicolai composed an anti-war treatise called "Manifesto to the Europeans".
- Hermann Eichhorst
Hermann Ludwig Eichhorst was a German-Swiss internist who was a native of Königsberg. He studied medicine in Königsberg and Berlin, and was an assistant to Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1832-1910), Bernhard Naunyn (1839-1935), and Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819-1885). In 1884 became director of the medical clinic in Zurich, where he remained for the rest of his career. Eichhorst made contributions in several fields of medicine.
- Leopold von Schrötter
Leopold Schrötter Ritter von Kristelli (February 5, 1837 - April 22, 1908) was an Austrian internist and laryngologist who was born in Graz. He received his medical doctorate in 1861 from the University of Vienna, and afterwards became an assistant to Josef Škoda (1805-1881) in Vienna. Later he was appointed to the chair at the newly created clinic for laryngology.
- William Bennett Bean
William Bennett Bean (November 8, 1909, the Philippines-March 1, 1989) was a well-known internist, medical historian and teacher.
- Karl Theodor Fahr
Karl Theodor Fahr (October 3, 1877 - 1945) was a German pathologist who was born in in Pirmasens of the Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1903 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Giessen, and continued his studies with Eugen Bostroem (1850-1926) in Giessen, Morris Simmonds (1855-1925) in Hamburg and with Ilya Ilyich Metchnikoff (1845-1916) in Paris. In 1924 he became director of the pathological institute at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf.
- Anatole Chauffard
Anatole Marie Émile Chauffard was a French internist who was born in Avignon. He was a member of Médecin des hôpitaux, and in 1907 became a professor of internal medicine of the Paris faculty. Chauffard is remembered for his pathological work with hereditary spherocytosis and liver disease. His name is associated with the following disorders: * "Minkowski-Chauffard disease": Congenital hemolytic anemia with spherocytosis, splenomegaly and jaundice.
- Artur Pappenheim
Artur Pappenheim (December 13, 1870 - December 31, 1916was a German physician primarily known for his work in hematology. After earning his degree from the University of Berlin in 1895, he worked in several medical fields. He worked under neurologist Ludwig Lichtheim in Königsberg, and was later an assistant to dermatologist Paul Gerson Unna and internist Ernst Viktor von Leyden.
- Léon Bouveret
Léon Bouveret was a French internist who was a native of Saint-Julien on Reyssouze in the department of Ain. After receiving his doctorate in Paris in 1878, he became director of a private clinic in Lyon that was run by professor Raphaël Lépine (1840-1919). Soon afterwards Bouveret becomes a member of les Hôpitaux de Lyon. As a young physician, Bouveret played an important role in the fight against cholera.