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List of the most influential people in Medical,

#1001

Edmund Klein

#78050

Overall Influence

1922 - 1999 (77 years)

Edmund Klein was an Austrian-born American dermatologist. He was born in Vienna, Austria, to David Klein, a cantor, and Helen Bibelman Klein. Jewish, he escaped from Austria in 1938, during the Anschluss.

#1002

Frank Hölzle

#86948

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Frank Hölzle is a German surgeon. He is a professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the RWTH Aachen University. He is chairman and head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Hölzle is known for his work in the fields of plastic facial reconstruction with a focus on micro surgery. He is also specialised for the treatment of tumor diseases in the head and neck region, and of malformations like cleft lip and palate.

#1003

Yog Raj Sharma

#71586

Overall Influence

Yog Raj Sharma is an Indian ophthalmologist and ex-chief of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences , New Delhi, the apex body of the National Programme for the Control of Blindness, a Government of India initiative to reduce the prevalence of blindness in India. He is the Chairman of the Task Force on Prevention and Control of Diabetic Retinopathy Group and the Co-Chairman of the National Task Force on Prevention of Blindness from Retinopathy of Prematurity under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India. An advisor to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India.

#1004

Thomas M. Graber

#93559

Overall Influence

#1005

Michael Von Korff

#83235

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Michael Rehn Von Korff is an American epidemiologist and medical researcher who studies the treatment of chronic pain and major depressive disorder. He works as a senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente's Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, Washington. He is the co-founder of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, as well as a fellow of both AcademyHealth and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He was named an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2002.

#1006

Thomas R. Dr Demeester

#93783

Overall Influence

#1007

Adetokunbo Lucas

#71052

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Adetokunbo Oluwole Lucas was a Nigerian doctor who was considered a global leader in tropical diseases. Born in Lagos, he was educated in the United Kingdom and commenced his professional career in Nigeria. Lucas received the Prince Mahidol Award in 1999 for his support of strategic research on the tropical diseases. He served for ten years as the Director of Special Programmes for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases based at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He was Adjunct Professor of International Health Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard School of Public Health.

#1008

Dr. D. J. Hearse

#93937

Overall Influence

#1009

Theodore M. Brown

#80867

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Theodore M. Brown is a professor of public health and policy, medical humanities and history at the University of Rochester. His area of research is the history of health policy in America and he specializes in the intellectual, institutional, and political histories of medicine.

#1010

Robert Truog

#68069

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Robert D. Truog is an American bioethicist and pediatrician. He is the Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesiology & Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, where he is also the Director of the Center for Bioethics. He also practices in the pediatric intensive care unit at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he previously served as chair of the Division of Critical Care Medicine.

#1011

Maciej Banach

#94046

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

#1012

Joshua Sonett

#71814

Overall Influence

Joshua R. Sonett is the Chief of General Thoracic Surgery, Surgical Director of Price Family Center for Comprehensive Chest Care, and an Attending Surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. He is also a Professor of Clinical Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

#1013

John P. Cooke

#94086

Overall Influence

#1014

Philip Alexander Poole‐wilson

#94114

Overall Influence

#1015

Kevin Chi Chung

#94130

Overall Influence

#1016

Moussa B. H. Youdim

#94222

Overall Influence

#1017

Lisa Littman

#70946

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

#1018

David Skegg

#64135

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Sir David Christopher Graham Skegg is a New Zealand epidemiologist and university administrator. He is an emeritus professor in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago. He was the vice-chancellor of the university from 2004 to 2011 and president of the Royal Society of New Zealand from 2012 to 2015. His primary research interest is cancer epidemiology.

#1019

Till Winfried Bärnighausen

#87580

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Till Winfried Bärnighausen is an Alexander von Humboldt University Professor and Director of the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is also Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a Faculty Member at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and a Senior Faculty at the Wellcome Trust's Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa.

#1020

Annette Dolphin

Annette Dolphin

#43150

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Annette Catherine Dolphin is a Professor of Pharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College London . Education Dolphin was educated at the University of Oxford where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry in 1973, and the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London where she was awarded a PhD in 1977 for research on noradrenaline receptors.

#1021

Denis J. Gospodarowicz

#94674

Overall Influence

#1022

Elizabeth R. McAnarney

#81017

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Elizabeth R. McAnarney is a pediatrician who is recognized for her leadership in the fields of adolescent medicine and pediatrics. Career Elizabeth McAnarney was born in New York, New York and grew up in Watkins Glen, New York. She graduated from Vassar College in 1962, received the M.D. cum laude from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in 1966, and completed her pediatric residency there. In 1968, she pursued post-residency fellowship training at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

#1023

Vijay P. Parashar

#68430

Overall Influence

Vijay P. Parashar, BDS, MDS, DDS, is an oral and maxillofacial radiologist working as faculty at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona. Prior to joining Midwestern University as Associate Professor, Parashar was the Assistant Professor of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences at University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, Michigan. Parashar won the 2006 Howard R. Raper and 2012 William H Rollins Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Awards given by American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology. Parashar received Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry...

#1024

Aneez Esmail

#53875

Overall Influence

Aneez Esmail is a general practitioner and academic at the University of Manchester. He is a professor of general practice and a GP for three sessions a week. Between 2012 and 2017 he served as the director of the National Institute for Health Research's research centre on patient safety in primary care. He is well known for his work over many years on racism in the British National Health Service. He has chaired a wide-ranging review of all postgraduate medical exams. He was medical adviser to the Shipman Inquiry. He was offered an OBE for his contribution to primary care and race relations...

#1025

Edward Calabrese

#72328

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Edward J. Calabrese is an American toxicologist and professor in the department of environmental health sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the editor emeritus of the scientific journal Dose-Response.

#1026

Kathleen I. Pritchard

#54209

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Kathleen I. Pritchard, is the head of oncology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, specializing in breast cancer therapies, and leading the clinical trials division of the centre. She has authored numerous studies on women's health, breast cancer, hormone replacement therapy, public health, and research methodology. According to Thomson Reuters, Pritchard was one of the most cited researchers in the world in 2014 and 2015.

#1027

William Proffit

#91044

Overall Influence

1936 - 2018 (82 years)

William Robert Proffit was an American orthodontist. He was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1966. Proffit led the department of orthodontics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1975 to 2001, and became a W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor in 1992. The American Association of Orthodontists presented Proffit with its inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award in Orthodontic Research in 2017. He taught at UNC until his death in 2018.

#1028

Patrizio Lancellotti

#95203

Overall Influence

#1029

Werner Kalow

#95215

Overall Influence

#1030

Richard F. Spaide

#95252

Overall Influence

#1031

David Baskin

#60798

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

David S. Baskin is a neurosurgeon who currently works at Houston Methodist Hospital as the Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, the Director of the Residency Training program, and the Director of the Kenneth R. Peak Brain & Pituitary Tumor Center, and is also a professor of neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Medical College.

#1032

Joe Hall Morris

#71169

Overall Influence

1922 - 2003 (81 years)

Joe Hall Morris was an American oral surgeon and educator at the University of Tennessee who developed a Bi-Phase External Fixation Splint. Further key contributions to the field of modern dentistry include the Orthognathic Surgery Simulating Instrument, or OSSI. His work in the biomechanical aspects of oral and maxillofacial surgery have had an impact on the fields of maxillofacial trauma and Orthognathic surgery.

#1033

Nasrin Husseini

#23816

Overall Influence

Nasrin Husseini is an Afghan-born Canadian advocate of refugees, veterinary researcher, and a food activist, working to remake the food system. Her research focuses on advancing animal health through breeding and improving the productivity of the food derived from farm animals. In 2021, she was part of the 100 Women BBC list, which includes the most inspiring and influential women in the world.

#1034

Giuseppe Giaccone

#95412

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

#1035

Johan Giesecke

#92268

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Johan Giesecke is a Swedish physician and Professor Emeritus at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Giesecke was born in Stockholm. He defended his thesis, On The Molecular Structure Of Dopaminergic Substances, at the Karolinska Institute. He trained as an infectious disease clinician and worked with AIDS patients during the 1980s. Giesecke received an MSc in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1992, after which he worked as a Senior Lecturer at the school.

#1036

Heinz Wiendl

#87146

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Heinz Wiendl is a German neurologist and professor at the University Hospital Muenster. He is known for his works in the field of nervous system inflammation and multiple sclerosis. Biography Wiendl studied psychology and medicine from 1989 to 1996 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, Duke University, North Carolina, and Bale University, Switzerland. He obtained his MD in 1996. In the following years, he was a scholar of the German Research Council at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology , worked as a clinical and research fellow at the Department of Neurology Tuebingen, received board certification and completed his habilitation .

#1037

Henry W. Blackburn

#95535

Overall Influence

#1038

Kristie Ebi

#88861

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Kristie L. Ebi is an American epidemiologist whose primary focus is the impact of global warming on human health. She is a professor of Global Health and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.

#1039

Christopher A. Walsh

#51501

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Christopher A. Walsh is the Bullard Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Genetics at Children's Hospital Boston, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the former Director of the Harvard–MIT MD–PhD Program. His research focuses on genetics of human cortical development and somatic mutations contributions to human brain diseases.

#1040

Sathanur R. Srinivasan

#95596

Overall Influence

#1041

Janardan K. Reddy

#95626

Overall Influence

#1042

Bimal Kumar Bachhawat

#54247

Overall Influence

1925 - 1996 (71 years)

Bimal Kumar Bachhawat was an Indian neurochemist and glycobiologist, known for his discovery of HMG-CoA lyase, an intermediate in the mevalonate and ketogenesis pathway, and for the elucidation of the molecular cause of metachromatic leukodystrophy, a hereditary disease of the brain His studies on sugar-bearing liposomes led to its use as a carrier for in situ delivery of drugs and hormones to diseased organs and he pioneered the therapy of systemic fungal infections using liposomal formulations. He was a recipient of several awards including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, the highest Indian honor in science and technology and an elected fellow of three major Indian science academies.

#1043

Robert N. Hoover

#95681

Overall Influence

#1044

Aaron Antonovsky

#95727

Overall Influence

#1045

Heine R. Boeing

#95757

Overall Influence

#1046

S. Lawrence Zipursky

#42162

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

S. Lawrence Zipursky is an American neuroscientist, currently Distinguished Professor of Biological Chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Zipursky studies brain development. His research focuses on how neural circuits are formed during development. His laboratory has provided insights into various aspects of circuit assembly, including the molecular basis of neuronal identity through their work on the Dscam1 locus in Drosophila. Zipursky was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2009.

#1047

Georgina Long

#94619

Overall Influence

Georgina Venetia Long is Co-Medical Director of Melanoma Institute Australia , and Chair of Melanoma Medical Oncology and Translational Research at MIA and Royal North Shore Hospital, The University of Sydney.

#1048

Aristides M. Tsatsakis

#90230

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Aristidis Tsatsakis is a Greek toxicologist. He directs the Laboratory of Forensic Science & Toxicology at the University of Crete. From 2014 to 2016, he served as President of the Federation of European Toxicologists. He also founded a commercial spinoff company, ToxPlus SA.

#1049

Melvin M. Scheinman

#95832

Overall Influence

#1050

David M. Mannino

#95901

Overall Influence

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