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List of the most influential people in Medical,

#1401

Robert S. Reneman

#108394

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#1402

David Juurlink

#106934

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

David Juurlink is a Canadian pharmacologist and internist. He is head of the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology division at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, as well as a medical toxicologist at the Ontario Poison Centre and a scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. He is known for researching adverse effects caused by drug interactions, with some of this research funded by a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. He has been very critical of his fellow physicians' regular prescribing of dangerous opioids like Tramadol and fentanyl.

#1403

Richard L. Wahl

#89995

Overall Influence

Richard L. Wahl, a nuclear medicine physician, is the Elizabeth Mallinckrodt Professor and Chairman of Radiology, and Director of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine. He is known for his work in PET/CT imaging.

#1404

Joseph A. Beavo

#108434

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#1405

Harold J. C. Swan

#108455

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#1406

Eric Feigl-Ding

#97729

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (42 years)

Eric Liang Feigl-Ding is an American public health scientist who is currently an epidemiologist and Chief of COVID Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He was formerly a faculty member and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also the Chief Health Economist for Microclinic International, and co-founder of the World Health Network. His research and advocacy have primarily focused on obesity, nutrition, cancer prevention, and biosecurity.

#1407

Margaret Becklake

#47668

Overall Influence

1922 - 2018 (96 years)

Margaret Rigsby Becklake, was a Canadian academic and epidemiologist. Margaret focused her career on the study of environmental and occupational determinants of childhood and adult airway disease, specifically the lung health of asbestos miners and millers.

#1408

Prabhat Jha

#97815

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Prabhat Jha is an Indian-Canadian epidemiologist currently working in the field of global health. Jha is the founding director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. His research focuses primarily on premature mortality resulting from HIV/AIDS, tobacco, alcohol, malaria, maternal, and child health, infectious and non-communicable diseases.

#1409

David J. Triggle

#108531

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#1410

Josef Martin Pfeilschifter

#108537

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#1411

Maria Grazia Roncarolo

#78654

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Maria Grazia Roncarolo is an Italian pediatrician who is currently George D. Smith Professor in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. She is also the Director of the Stanford Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine along with Irving Weissman and Michael Longaker and the Director for Center for Definitive and Curative Medicine at Stanford.

#1412

Gilaad G. Kaplan

#108546

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#1413

Giuseppe L. Viale

#108607

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#1414

Sheldon Pinnell

#85967

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Sheldon R. Pinnell was an American dermatologist and physician-scientist who served as the J. Lamar Callaway Professor of Dermatology at Duke University. His research involves sun protection, photoaging, collagen chemistry, and topical percutaneous absorption of antioxidants. In 2013, he was made an honorary member of the Society of Investigative Dermatology.

#1415

Lucien Campeau

#87993

Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

Lucien Campeau was a Canadian cardiologist. He was a full professor at the Université de Montréal. He is best known for performing the world's first transradial coronary angiogram. Campeau was one of the founding staff of the Montreal Heart Institute, joining in 1957. He is also well known for developing the Canadian Cardiovascular Society grading of angina pectoris.

#1416

Armando E. Giuliano

#108690

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#1417

Kay Dickersin

#99087

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Kay Dickersin is an academic who trained first in cell biology and subsequently epidemiology. She went on to a career studying factors that influence research integrity, in particular publication bias and outcome reporting bias. She is retired Professor Emerita in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she was Director of the Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence Synthesis there. She was also Director of the US Cochrane Center and the US Satellite of the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group within the Cochrane Collaboration. Dickersin received mul...

#1418

James Rippe

#96242

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

James M. Rippe is an American cardiologist. He is the founder and director of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute, located in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Education Rippe received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1969 and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1979.

#1419

Herman Friedman

#108756

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#1420

Marilyn Huestis

Marilyn Huestis

#107118

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Marilyn Ann Huestis is an American toxicologist researching the effects of illicit drugs on the body, brain, and in utero. She was chief of the chemistry and drug metabolism section at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

#1421

Sahar Saleem

#78593

Overall Influence

Sahar Saleem is a professor of radiology at Cairo University where she specialises in paleoradiology, the use of radiology to study mummies. She discovered the knife wound in the throat of Ramesses III, which was most likely the cause of his death.

#1422

Anthony B. Miller

#108836

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#1423

Gary S. Francis

#108874

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#1424

Nasser Simforoosh

#101659

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Nasser Simforoosh is an Iranian scientist, physician, university lecturer and urologist. He is the author of more than 200 articles in international journals and several books in English and Persian. He is currently a full Professor of Urology in the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. He is currently full professor at the Department of Urology, Shahid Beheshti University, and Vice-president of International Urological Association. According to a google scholar report, Professor Simforoosh's research works have been referred to 1,494 times and 3169 citations.

#1425

Nabil F. Saba

#59124

Overall Influence

Nabil F. Saba is an American oncologist. He is currently Professor and Vice-chair of Hematology and Medical Oncology, and Professor of Otolaryngology at the Winship Cancer Institute at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a specialist in the field of head and neck oncology. Saba has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles. He is the inaugural Lynne and Howard Halpern Chair in Head and Neck Cancer Research.

#1426

Robert A. Weiss

#105645

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Robert A. Weiss is an American dermatologist and current president of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery. Education Weiss earned his bachelor's degree from Columbia University, after which he obtained his MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, class of 1978. He did his residency in dermatology at Johns Hopkins, then went on to additional fellowship training in dermatologic research at the National Institutes of Health. Weiss is board certified by the American Board of Dermatology.

#1427

Anne Wyllie

#44487

Overall Influence

Anne Louise Wyllie is a New Zealand microbiologist who was the lead author of a 2020 research article which led to the development of the SalivaDirect PCR method of testing saliva for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. She has also worked on community studies to better understand pneumococcal disease. She is a research scientist in epidemiology with the Public Health Modeling Unit at Yale University.

#1428

Laetitia Rispel

#78907

Overall Influence

Laetitia Charmaine Rispel is a South African Professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand. Rispel's work has investigated health policy and management and health services research.

#1429

Ramanan Laxminarayan

#99298

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Ramanan Laxminarayan Ph.D., M.P.H., FIDSA is an economist and an epidemiologist. He is founder and director of the One Health Trust – formerly known as the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy – in Washington, D.C., and director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Antimicrobial Resistance. Laxminarayan is a senior research scholar at Princeton University, an affiliate professor at the University of Washington, a senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde. In 2023, he was...

#1430

Thomas A. Rando

#92134

Overall Influence

Thomas A. Rando is an American stem cell biologist and neurologist, best known for his research on basic mechanisms of stem cell biology and the biology of aging. He is the Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research and a professor of Neurology and Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the UCLA faculty, he served as Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he was also founding director of the Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging.

#1431

Martha S. Linet

#93490

Overall Influence

Martha S. Linet is an American physician epidemiologist. She is a scientist emerita at the National Cancer Institute . Linet retired in January 2020 after 33 years at NCI. She was a senior investigator and branch chief in the NCI radiation epidemiology branch. Linet specialized in epidemiology, the etiology of pediatric and adult leukemia, lymphoma, and brain tumors, as well as the health effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and benzene exposure.

#1432

D. C. David C. Bellinger

#109166

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#1433

R. Wayne Alexander

#109200

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#1434

Walter G. Bradley

#109202

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#1435

Gaston R. Vantrappen

#109236

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#1436

Alec P. Vahanian

#109261

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#1437

David Eidelberg

#101944

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David Eidelberg is an American neuroscientist who is a professor of Neurology and Molecular Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine. He is a neuroscientist best known for applying functional imaging of the brain to study neurological diseases.

#1438

Charles L. Schepens

#109352

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#1439

Moussa B. H. Youdim

#81242

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Moussa B. H. Youdim is an internationally renowned Israeli neuroscientist specializing in neurochemistry and neuropharmacology. He is the discoverer of both monoamine oxidase B inhibitors l-deprenyl and rasagiline as anti-Parkinson drugs which possess neuroprotective activities. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Technion - Faculty of Medicine and President of Youdim Pharmaceuticals.

#1440

Jonathan Larmonth Meakins

#94653

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Jonathan Larmonth Meakins, is a Canadian surgeon, academic, and expert in immunobiology and surgical infections. Life Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the son of Jonathan Fayette Meakins, in turn the son of Jonathan Campbell Meakins. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Western Ontario in 1966. He received a Doctor of Science from the University of Cincinnati in 1972.

#1441

David Snowdon

#53398

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

David A. Snowdon , is an epidemiologist and professor of neurology, formerly at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky. His research interests include antioxidants and aging, and the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease, especially predictive factors in early life and the role of brain infarction.

#1442

Nancy K. Mello

#109457

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#1443

Randi J. Hagerman

#71652

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Randi J. Hagerman is an American physician who is the medical director of MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis. She works for the pediatrics department under the division of child development and behavior. She is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of genetics of autism spectrum disorder with special focus on genomic instability. Along with her husband Paul Hagerman, she discovered the Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome , a neurological disorder that affects older male and rare female carriers of fragile X.

#1444

Sandra Eades

#77674

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Sandra Eades is a Noongar physician, researcher and professor, and the first Aboriginal medical practitioner to be awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in 2003. As of March 2020 she is Dean of Medicine at Curtin University.

#1445

Anton Eduard Kunst

#109577

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#1446

Wayne D. Rosamond

#109578

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#1447

Reed Mangels

#109584

Overall Influence

Ann Reed Mangels is a registered dietitian and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializing in vegan and vegetarian nutrition. She is the author or co-author of numerous papers and books on the subject, including the American Dietetic Association's position paper on vegan and vegetarian diets, Vegan & Vegetarian FAQ , The Dietitian's Guide to Vegetarian Diets , and The Everything Vegan Pregnancy Book .

#1448

Joanne Katz

#96595

Overall Influence

Joanne Katz is an epidemiologist, biostatistician, and Professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Ophthalmology . Her expertise is in maternal, neonatal, and child health. She has contributed to the design, conduct and analysis of data from large community based intervention trials on nutritional and other interventions in Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal and other countries.

#1449

Marshall H. Becker

#109614

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#1450

Thomas Thornton Macdonald

#109633

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