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List of the most influential people in Medical,

#601

Lawrence Stark

#56790

Overall Influence

1926 - 2004 (78 years)

Lawrence W. Stark was an American neurologist and a recognized authority in the use of engineering analysis to characterize neurological systems. He was a longtime professor of physiological optics and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Stark was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. His father Edward Stark was a chemical engineer trained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lawrence credited his early interest in engineering to him.

#602

Peng Tee Khaw

#72897

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Sir Peng Tee Khaw is a Chinese-Malaysian British consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, specialising in adult and paediatric glaucoma. Career Khaw was born on 8 October 1957 in Singapore. His father, Tan Sri Khaw Kai Boh, was a cabinet member of Tunku Abdul Rahman. His family moved back to Malaysia soon after, and he studied at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur before leaving for the UK.

#603

Wafaa El-Sadr

#21418

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Wafaa El-Sadr is a Columbia University Professor and the director of ICAP at Columbia University, Columbia World Projects and the Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiologic Research at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.

#604

Raymond F. Schinazi

#39908

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Raymond F. Schinazi is an American organic medicinal chemist at Emory University with expertise in antiviral agents, pharmacology, and biotechnology. His research focuses on developing treatments for infections caused by human immunodeficiency virus , hepatitis B , hepatitis C , herpes, dengue fever, zika, chikungunya, and other emerging viruses. These treatment options include antiviral agents as well as synthetic, biochemical, pharmacological and molecular genetic approaches, including molecular modeling and gene therapy.

#605

Mohammad-Reza Zarrindast

#42993

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Mohammad Reza Zarrindast is a notable Iranian pharmacologist and biomedical researcher. Zarrindast is known as an Iranian neuropsychopharmacologist around the world and he published more than 200 original research papers in peer reviewed international journals. He is currently full professor of pharmacology at Tehran Medical School.

#606

Jean-Michel Macron

#21909

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French doctor and professor of neurology at the University of Picardy. He is the father of French president Emmanuel Macron. Early life Jean-Michel Macron was born in 1950. His father was André Macron , a railway executive, and his mother was Jacqueline Macron , née Robertson, of half English origin. He wrote a thesis on feline neurology in 1981.

#607

Miodrag Radulovacki

Miodrag Radulovacki

#30687

Overall Influence

1933 - 2014 (81 years)

Miodrag Radulovacki , was a Serbian American scientist and inventor. He was Professor of Pharmacology in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago , Radulovacki's research accomplishments include: the Adenosine Sleep Theory, and pioneering pharmacological studies for the treatment of sleep apnea, together with research collaborator, David W. Carley, . Radulovacki and Carley invented several drug therapies for the treatment of sleep apnea which have been patented by the UIC. The UIC recognized them as the 2010 "Inventors of the Year." Radulovacki published more than 170 scientific papers.

#608

Roger I. Glass

#64974

Overall Influence

Roger I. Glass is an American physician-scientist who served as the Director of the John E. Fogarty International Center. Education and early career Glass graduated from Harvard College in 1967, received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the University of Buenos Aires in 1967, and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1972. He interned from 1972 to 1973 at Cambridge Hospital. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital from 1974 to 1976. At Sinai, Glass was also an instructor in the department of medicine and an epidemiology fellow with Thomas C.

#609

Malcolm Perry

#44951

Overall Influence

1929 - 2009 (80 years)

Malcolm Oliver Perry II was an American physician and surgeon. Perry was one of the doctors who attended to President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963 after Kennedy was shot. Two days later, he attended to Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald after he was shot.

#610

Clifford B. Saper

#74321

Overall Influence

#611

Vesanto Melina

#30294

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Vesanto Melina is a Canadian Registered Dietitian and co-author of books that have become classics in the field of vegetarian, vegan, and raw foods nutrition, have sold almost a million copies in English and are in nine additional languages . She has presented talks and workshops on various aspects of vegetarian, vegan and raw foods and nutrition for dietitians, health professionals, and vegetarian associations in 17 American states and 9 Canadian provinces, and in 10 countries .

#612

Fushih Pan

#55673

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Fushih Pan is a Taiwanese plastic surgeon certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Fushih Pan is also certified by the National Board of General Surgery of Taiwan and the Board of Plastic Surgery Specialist of the U.A.E.

#613

Camara Phyllis Jones

Camara Phyllis Jones

#44562

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Camara Phyllis Jones is an American physician, epidemiologist, and anti-racism activist who specializes in the effects of racism and social inequalities on health. She is known for her work in defining institutional racism, personally mediated racism, and internalized racism in the context of modern U.S. race relations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jones drew attention to why racism and not race is a risk factor and called for actions to address structural racism.

#614

Ali H. Mokdad

#74633

Overall Influence

#615

Alberto Zanchetti

#74670

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (99 years)

#616

Li Lanjuan

#58432

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Li Lanjuan , also romanized as Lan-Juan Li, is a Chinese epidemiologist and hepatologist. She is a professor at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and serves as the director of the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases. She developed Li-NBAL, an artificial liver support system that is used to sustain the lives of people suffering from acute liver failure, and won multiple national awards for her roles in combatting the SARS, H1N1, and H7N9 epidemics.

#617

Sherman James

#40392

Overall Influence

Sherman A. James is an American epidemiologist. He is currently the Susan B. King Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, and previously taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from 1973 to 1989 and at the University of Michigan as the John P. Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health from 1989 to 2003. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2000.

#618

Dominique Costagliola

#58771

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Dominique Costagliola is a French epidemiologist and biostatistician, deputy director of the Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health and is considered a “leading AIDS specialist.”,

#619

Douglas Easton

#70052

Overall Influence

Douglas F. Easton FMedSci is a British epidemiologist who conducts research on the genetics of human cancers. He is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge. He founded Cambridge's Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit in 1995, and was a Principal Research Fellow there from 2001 to 2011. He is a Professorial Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge.

#620

Michel Ferrari

#48921

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Michel D. Ferrari is a Swiss neurologist and professor of neurology at Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center. He was a winner of the 2009 Spinoza Prize. He is considered to be the foremost migraine expert of the Netherlands, as well as one of the six top scientist in the field worldwide.

#621

Toni Choueiri

#47383

Overall Influence

Toni K. Choueiri is a Lebanese American medical oncologist and researcher. He is the Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. His work has led to the establishment of several novel drugs and prognostic factors in advanced renal cell carcinoma . Choueiri also co-established the International metastatic database Consortium with Daniel Heng. His biomarker work has shed light on complex immunogenomics mechanisms contributing to response and resistance to targeted therap...

#622

Simon I. Hay

#72291

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Simon Iain Hay, is a British epidemiologist. He is Professor for Global Health at the University of Washington and Director of Geospatial Science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation . From 2013-2015 he served as the 52nd President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

#623

Amit Patel

#20061

Overall Influence

Amit Nilkanth Patel MD, BS, MS is an Indian-American cardiac surgeon and former director of clinical regenerative medicine and tissue engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He was a tenured professor of surgery-cardiothoracic at the University of Utah until December 2016.

#624

Neil R. Miller

#75064

Overall Influence

Neil R. Miller is an American neuro-ophthalmologist. He is the Frank B. Walsh Professor of Neuro-Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, part of Johns Hopkins Hospital. In addition to being a Professor of Ophthalmology, he has cross appointments in Neurosurgery and Neurology.

#625

Chen Wei-jao

#22690

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Chen Wei-jao is a Taiwanese surgeon and academic administrator. Early life and career Chen was born in Taichū Prefecture on 15 November 1939. He studied medicine at National Taiwan University and completed his residency at National Taiwan University Hospital. He became a lecturer at NTU and continued postgraduate study. Chen earned a DMS in 1973 at Tohoku University in Japan before completing a master's in public health at Johns Hopkins University in 1989. Chen was the lead surgeon in a groundbreaking September 1979 operation to separate conjoined twins. The twins were born with three legs between them and joined at the hip.

#626

Victor Montori

#61643

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Victor Montori is a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He was born and raised in Lima, Peru. He completed medical school at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Peru, before joining the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the Mayo Clinic. He was named Chief Resident of the Department of Internal Medicine from 1999 to 2000.

#627

John Henry

#34078

Overall Influence

1939 - 2007 (68 years)

John Anthony Henry was a professor specialising in toxicology in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington. He conducted research on the health effects of cannabis, cocaine and other recreational drugs.

#628

Alice Weaver Flaherty

#37704

Overall Influence

Alice Weaver Flaherty is an American neurologist. She is a researcher, physician, educator, and author of the 2004 book The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain, about the neural basis of creativity.

#629

Jules Hardy

#57911

Overall Influence

1932 - 2022 (90 years)

Jules Hardy was a Canadian neurosurgeon. Early life and education Born in Sorel, Quebec on July 16, 1932, Hardy graduated as a doctor of medicine from the Université de Montréal in 1956, followed then by postgraduate work at the Université de Montréal as well as at McGill University. In 1962, he received a specialist certification in neurosurgery from the Quebec College of Physicians.

#630

Harold S. Koplewicz

#49006

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Harold Samuel Koplewicz is a nationally known child and adolescent psychiatrist. He is the founder and president of the nonprofit Child Mind Institute and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.

#631

Robert Bartlett

#47488

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Robert Bartlett is an American physician and medical researcher who is credited with developing a lifesaving heart-lung technology known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation . He is an emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School.

#632

John H. Sampson

#43894

Overall Influence

John Howard Sampson is an American neurosurgeon who was formerly chief of the department of neurosurgery at Duke University where he serves as a professor of surgery, biomedical engineering, immunology, and pathology.

#633

Abram Salmon Benenson

#58070

Overall Influence

1914 - 2003 (89 years)

Abram Salmon Benenson was an authority in public health, preventive medicine, military medicine, and "shoe-leather" epidemiology. He was best known as the editor-in-chief for the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual of the American Public Health Association. His tenure as editor was so lengthy that the manual was often known as the "Benenson Book".

#634

James A. Shannon

#56017

Overall Influence

1904 - 1994 (90 years)

James Augustine Shannon was an American nephrologist who served as director of National Institutes of Health from August 1, 1955 to August 31, 1968. In 1962 he was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was a member. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965 and the American Philosophical Society in 1967. A collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.

#635

Edward Stinson

#65231

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Edward B. Stinson is an American retired cardiothoracic surgeon living in Los Altos, United States, who assisted Norman Shumway in America's first adult human-to-human heart transplantation on 6 January 1968 at Stanford University.

#636

S. Allen Counter

#33844

Overall Influence

1944 - 2017 (73 years)

Samuel Allen Counter Jr. was a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and inaugural director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. Early life Samuel Allen Counter Jr. was born in Americus, Georgia. His mother, Anne , was a nurse and his father managed businesses, but died prematurely of a heart attack. Counter grew up in south Florida in the segregated town of Boynton Beach and attended his first civil rights protest as the youngest participant at a "swim-in" at a white-only beach.

#637

Philip A. Wolf

#76053

Overall Influence

#638

Asker Jeukendrup

#68510

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Asker Jeukendrup is a sports nutrition scientist and an Ironman triathlete. Academic career Following an MSc in Human Movement Sciences at Maastricht University in the Netherlands he completed his PhD in 1997 at the same university studying aspects of carbohydrate and fat metabolism during exercise. After postdoctoral research at the University of Texas in Austin, Jeukendrup became the youngest professor at the University of Birmingham at the age of 35. He was a Professor of Exercise Metabolism at the University of Birmingham for over 12 years. He also served as a Director of the Human Performance Lab at the same university.

#639

Anthony Henry Vernon Schapira

#76068

Overall Influence

#640

Michael Fehlings

#66699

Overall Influence

Michael Fehlings is a Canadian neurosurgeon based at Toronto Western Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Fehlings specializes in complex spine surgery with a special interest in traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injury and spine oncology. He mainly focuses on preclinical and clinical translational research related to enhancing repair and regeneration of the injured central nervous system. He holds many positions, including Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto, Vice Chair Research at the University of Toronto, Robert Campeau Foundation/Dr. C.H. Tator Chair in Bra...

#641

Jay Gordon

#37181

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Jay N. Gordon is an American pediatrician, lecturer, and author. He is well-known within the anti-vaccine movement for his promotion of vaccine hesitancy. He does encourage vaccinating but at the discretion of the parent. He is also a long-time advocate of breastfeeding; he became a member of the International Health Advisory Council of the La Leche League in 2005.

#642

Robert A. Hahn

#59864

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Robert A. Hahn is an American medical anthropologist and epidemiologist. he was a coordinating scientist of systematic reviews for the Guide to Community Preventive Services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .

#643

Harvey Douglas White

#76373

Overall Influence

#644

Hein J. J. Wellens

#76503

Overall Influence

#645

Hitoshi Oshitani

#39357

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Hitoshi Oshitani is a Japanese university professor, virologist, medical doctor, public health expert and scientist who currently serves as the professor of virology, Department of Microbiology at Tohoku University. He is acclaimed and accredited with the crafting of the successful pandemic strategy of Japan called the "Three C's": Avoiding closed spaces, crowds and contact situations. He has been dubbed as the global ambassador of the "Japanese Model". He is also an integral member of the expert panel advising the Government of Japan in handling the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. Despite being ...

#646

R. Sanders Williams

#62580

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Robert Sanders "Sandy" Williams is the former President of the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, as well as Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, with which Gladstone is affiliated. Prior to joining Gladstone, he was the Dean of the Duke University School of Medicine from 2001 to 2007.

#647

Vincent T. Jr. Devita

#76623

Overall Influence

#648

Graham R. .v. Hughes

#76652

Overall Influence

#649

A. Ranganadha Rao

#63390

Overall Influence

1930 - 2014 (84 years)

Professor A. Ranganadha Rao M.B.B.S., M.S., M.Ch., D.Sc. was an Indian urologist. He is the first Urologist from Andhra Pradesh and the first person to perform a kidney transplantation in Andhra Pradesh.

#650

Malcolm Potts

#51728

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

David Malcolm Potts, FRCOG, FREng is an American human reproductive scientist and emeritus Professor of Public Health at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first holder of the Fred H. Bixby-endowed chair in Population and Family Planning and founding director of the Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability at the School of Public Health.

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