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List of the most influential people in Medical,

#1251

April Carson

#81336

Overall Influence

April Perry Carson is an American epidemiologist. She is an associate professor of epidemiology and associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. Carson is director of the Jackson Heart Study.

#1252

Sean P. F. Hughes

Sean P. F. Hughes

#71363

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Sean Patrick Francis Hughes is emeritus professor of orthopaedic surgery at Imperial College London where he was previously professor of orthopaedic surgery and head of the department of surgery, anaesthetics and intensive care. Earlier in his career he had been professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Edinburgh.

#1253

Holger Jens Schünemann

#85018

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Holger Jens Schünemann is a physician and professor of medicine and Clinical epidemiology. From 1 February 2009 to 30 June 2019 he was the chair of the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, where he now works as full professor.

#1254

Clare Collins

#80436

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Clare Elizabeth Collins is an Australian dietician who is Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Newcastle. She serves as Director for Research in the School of Health Sciences and Deputy Director of the Priority Research Centre. She was awarded the 2017 Hunter Medical Research Institute Researcher of the Year and is a Fellow of Dietitians Australia.

#1255

Reuven Sandyk

#103797

Overall Influence

#1256

Munther A. Khamashta

#103887

Overall Influence

#1257

Jean Chen Shih

#92935

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Jean Chen Shih is a Chinese-born biochemist. Shih was born Chen Jinghong in China, the second of four children to an engineer father. Her mother came from a wealthy family. At the age of eight, she moved to Taiwan with her family. She studied biochemistry at National Taiwan University and earned her doctorate in the subject via a joint program at the University of California in Riverside and Los Angeles. Upon completing post doctoral research at UCLA, she began teaching at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Southern California in 1974, where she was eventually appointed Boyd and Elsie Welin Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology.

#1258

Paolo Brenner

#90292

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Paolo Brenner is a German physician and a professor of cardiac surgery at the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Großhadern of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich . He is known for his work in the fields of xenotransplantation, the advancement of artificial hearts, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and lung transplantation.

#1259

Martin J. Shipley

#103933

Overall Influence

#1260

Martin Jan Schalij

#103949

Overall Influence

#1261

Paolo Antonio Ascierto

#103950

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

#1262

Johanne Martel-Pelletier

#99724

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Johanne Martel-Pelletier is a Canadian pharmacologist living and working in Quebec. She studies the pathophysiology and molecular mechanisms of arthritis. She was born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. She earned a master's degree and doctorate in physiology from the University of Montreal. She continued with post-graduate studies in biophysics at the University of Montreal and in rheumatology at the University of Miami. In 1981, she was named assistant professor of medicine at the University of Montreal; in 1995, she became a full professor.

#1263

Caroline Dive

#87336

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Caroline Dive is a British cancer research scientist. Dive is Professor of Cancer Pharmacology at the University of Manchester, Deputy Director of the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, Director of the CRUK Manchester Institute Cancer Biomarker Centre and co-director of the CRUK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence. She is the current President of The European Association for Cancer Research .

#1264

Edythe D. London

#97358

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Edythe Danick London is The Thomas and Katherine Pike Professor of Addiction Studies, and Director of the UCLA Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine University of California at Los Angeles. London received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Maryland . She did a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

#1265

Antoine Hakim

#79057

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Antoine M. Hakim is a Canadian engineer and physician. He first trained as a chemical engineer and worked for Syncrude in Alberta. Wishing to change careers, Hakim taught school for a short time in Montreal. He then earned a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and went on to study medicine at Albany Medical College. He completed his residency at the Montreal Neurological Institute and later became a professor at McGill University. In 1992, he became chair of the Neurology department and director of the Neuroscience Research Institute at the University of Ottawa.

#1266

Faiza Lalam

#71793

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Faiza Lalam is a medical doctor from Algeria, who is credited as the first woman neurosurgeon in Africa, spearheading the work of women in the specialism on the continent. She was described in 2020 as the "'Dean' of women neurosurgeons in Africa and the Middle East" by the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.

#1267

Mutlu Özcan

#104102

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

#1268

Linda Bauld

#84002

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Linda Caroline Bauld is the Bruce and John Usher Chair of Public Health in The Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh and Chief Social Policy Advisor to the Scottish government. Early life and education Bauld was born in Edinburgh. Her parents emigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1979 when she was a child. She spent her teenage years on Vancouver Island and attended Glenlyon Norfolk School in Victoria. She completed high school at the top of her graduating class in 1987 and was awarded a Governor General's Medal by the Province of British Columbia. She spent a year in Grenoble, France as an exchange student between 1987 and 1988.

#1269

Hans Helmut Kornhuber

Hans Helmut Kornhuber

#32006

Overall Influence

1928 - 2009 (81 years)

Hans Helmut Kornhuber was a German neurologist and neurophysiologist. Biography Hans Helmut Kornhuber was born as the second of three children of Dr. med. Gertrud and Dr. Arnold Kornhuber. He grew up at a small place Methgen near Königsberg. Eight years old he was admitted to the Friedrich Kollegium in Königsberg. Schooltime ended with preliminary maturity in summer 1944. He was interested in chemistry and got into contact with the chemical institute of the University of Königsberg. With the capitulation of Königsberg on 9 April Kornhuber became a soviet prisoner of war for four and a half years.

#1270

Uğur Şahin

#96957

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Uğur Şahin is a German oncologist and immunologist. He is the founder and CEO of BioNTech, which developed one of the major vaccines against COVID-19. His main fields of research are cancer research and immunology.

#1271

Neil M. Bressler

#104235

Overall Influence

#1272

Alan D. D’andrea

#104260

Overall Influence

#1273

Catherine Kyobutungi

Catherine Kyobutungi

#53410

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Catherine Kyobutungi is an Ugandan epidemiologist who currently serves as the Executive Director of the African Population and Health Research Center and a Joep Lange Chair. She was elected to the African Academy of Sciences in 2018.

#1274

Igor Rudan

#98179

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Igor Rudan is a Croatian-British scientist, writer, and science communicator. He leads research projects in global health and genetics, writes books, and creates documentary series. Igor Rudan is a medical doctor with two master’s degrees and two Ph.D. degrees . He has published more than 600 research papers as of 1 October 2023, which have been cited more than 200,000 times.

#1275

Salome Maswime

#38591

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Salome Maswime is a South African clinician and global health expert. She is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and the Head of Global Surgery at the University of Cape Town. She advocates for women's health rights, equity in surgical and maternal care, and providing adequate health services to remote and underserved populations. She advises and consults for many institutions, including the World Health Organization. In 2017, she was honored with the Trailblazer and Young Achiever Award. She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.

#1276

Daniel Brat

#71875

Overall Influence

Daniel Jay Brat is an American neuropathologist and brain tumor investigator. He is the Magerstadt Professor and Chair of Pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Healthcare.

#1277

Donald Nixon Ross

#104476

Overall Influence

#1278

Rocke Robertson

#87294

Overall Influence

1912 - 1998 (86 years)

Harold Rocke Robertson , was a Canadian physician and the former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University . Biography Rocke Robertson was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1912. He studied in Switzerland before moving to Montreal in 1929 to attend McGill University, where he received his B.S. in 1932 and M.D. in 1936.

#1279

Stephanie Mitelman

Stephanie Mitelman

#40591

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Stephanie Mitelman Bercovitch is a Canadian sex education and family life education professor, public speaker, entrepreneur, sex educator, and author specializing in special education, particularly for youth with autism spectrum disorders. She is the owner and creator of Senseez Pillows, a company making vibrating pillows for people with sensory needs, and Sex Ed Mart, a sex education publishing and distribution company specializing in sex education for youth with special needs. Bercovitch also runs a private sex education practice for youth on the autism spectrum, their parents, and couples...

#1280

Ann Barrett

#91245

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Ann Barrett OBE , is Emeritus Professor of Oncology in the University of East Anglia, England, and formerly deputy dean of the School of Medicine and lead clinician for oncology at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust. She was awarded an OBE in 2010 for services to medicine. She is also a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

#1281

Fumiaki Marumo

#104542

Overall Influence

#1282

Michael John Davies

#104600

Overall Influence

#1283

Giancarlo Dr Agnelli

#104601

Overall Influence

#1284

Frank C. Garland

Frank C. Garland

#97114

Overall Influence

1950 - 2010 (60 years)

Frank Caldwell Garland was an American epidemiologist whose research led to the conclusion that vitamin D deficiency can be a factor increasing risk for breast cancer and colon cancer. Biography Garland was born on June 20, 1950, in San Diego and earned a bachelor's degree in 1972 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he majored in history.

#1285

Kenneth Nilsson

#104678

Overall Influence

#1286

Suzanne L. Topalian

#87677

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Suzanne Louise Topalian is an American surgical oncologist. She is the Bloomberg-Kimmel Professor of Cancer Immunotherapy in the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In this role, she studies human anti-tumor immunity.

#1287

Klaus Aktories

#104832

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

#1288

Fernando Simón

#65162

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Fernando Simón Soria is a Spanish epidemiologist serving as Director of the Coordination Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies of the Ministry of Health. He came to public prominence as spokesman for the special committee on Ebola virus disease in Spain in 2014, and a similar role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Simón tested positive for coronavirus on 30 March 2020.

#1289

Franklin White

#62704

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Franklin Marshall Matthews White is a Canadian public health scientist focused on capacity building for international and global education, research and development. He advocates:"Public health...must not be left to the international community to define; it is...the responsibility of the countries themselves to define their priorities. The global agenda should be viewed as complementary at best." "Health is mostly made in homes, communities and workplaces and only a minority of ill health can be repaired in clinics and hospitals." "Nations assess their public health human resource needs and...

#1290

Marian Knight

#97765

Overall Influence

Marian Knight is a British physician who is a Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health at the University of Oxford. She is an Honorary Consultant of Public Health for Public Health England. During the COVID-19 pandemic Knight studied the characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women who tested positive for COVID-19.

#1291

Charles Branas

#90103

Overall Influence

Charles C. Branas is the chair of the department of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, a position he assumed on January 1, 2017. Before joining the Mailman School, he taught and conducted extensive research at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine.

#1292

Janet Daling

#96975

Overall Influence

1934 - 2022 (88 years)

Janet R. Daling is an American epidemiologist. She is a member emeritus of the Public Health Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, as well as an emeritus professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington.

#1293

Mads Melbye

#101390

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Mads Melbye is director of the Cancer Institute in Denmark . He earned his M.D. degree from University of Aarhus, Denmark, in 1983, and a DMSc degree from the same university in 1988. His thesis work was partly done as a fellow in the epidemiology program at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, US. After clinical training he became senior investigator in 1989 at the Danish Cancer Registry in Copenhagen, and in 1991 state epidemiologist at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen. In 1992, Melbye was given a personal chair in infectious disease and cancer epidemiology by the Danish minister for research and education.

#1294

Maia Majumder

#34379

Overall Influence

Maimuna Majumder is a computational epidemiologist and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital's Computational Health Informatics Program . She is currently working on modeling the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

#1295

Joan Heller Brown

#103615

Overall Influence

Joan Heller Brown is an American pharmacologist. She is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology at UC San Diego School of Medicine. She is known for fundamental contributions to the understanding of G-protein coupled receptors — molecules that span cell membranes, where they transmit messages between cells and their environments — and how GPCRs regulate cell growth and survival, in healthy and various disease states. Many therapeutic drugs work by influencing GPCRs, thus Heller Brown's discoveries have been crucial to their development.

#1296

Jérôme Salomon

#48428

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Jérôme Salomon is a French infectious diseases physician and high-ranking civil servant. He is the French Directeur général de la Santé since 8 January 2018. He became known in France since the COVID-19 pandemic.

#1297

John Dwyer

#68703

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

John Michael Dwyer, is an Australian doctor, professor of medicine, and public health advocate. He was originally a Professor of Medicine and Paediatrics, then Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology at Yale University. Returning to Australia, he became Head of the Department of Medicine and the Clinical Dean at the University of New South Wales and Director of Medicine at Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital, the University's major teaching hospital, for over twenty years. In retirement he is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine of the University. He founded the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance, and was the founding president of the Friends of Science in Medicine until 2019.

#1298

Marjo-Riitta Järvelin

#50597

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Marjo-Riitta Järvelin is a Finnish epidemiologist. Since 2002 she has been professor of lifecourse epidemiology at Imperial College London. She is also part-time professor of public health at the University of Oulu, Finland, and visiting faculty at London's Brunel University.

#1299

P. jeffrey Conn

#105192

Overall Influence

#1300

Alex Sevanian

#85884

Overall Influence

1946 - 2005 (59 years)

Alex Sevanian was an American pharmacologist. Early life and family Sevanian was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States with his family, settling first in San Francisco and later in the San Fernando Valley . Alex Sevanian's father, Ara Sevanian , was a composer and canonist whose works have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, among others. Alex Sevanian, with his wife, Diana Lynn Sevanian, had two sons, David Alexander Sevanian and Andrew Maximillian Sevanian.

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