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List of the most influential people in Medical,

#1451

Ronald P. Rubin

#109643

Overall Influence

#1452

Carys Bannister

#77810

Overall Influence

1935 - 2010 (75 years)

Carys Margaret Bannister was the first female British neurosurgeon. Born in Brazil to Welsh parents, she moved to England as a teenager and trained in surgery after qualifying as a doctor. She spent most of her career as a consultant neurosurgeon at North Manchester General Hospital and as a researcher at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. She specialised in treating disorders of the cerebral circulation, spina bifida, and hydrocephalus.

#1453

Rob H. Beaglehole

#109696

Overall Influence

#1454

A. K. Dubey Jagendra Pratap Singh

#109697

Overall Influence

#1455

William P. Jr. Longmire

#109704

Overall Influence

#1456

Karestan Koenen

#104221

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Karestan Chase Koenen is an American epidemiologist and Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also the head of the Global Neuropsychiatric Genomics Initiative of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute. She is a fellow of the American Psychopathological Association and a former president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. In 2015, she received the Robert S. Laufer, PhD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

#1457

Martha Gulati

#79874

Overall Influence

Martha Gulati is the past Chief of Cardiology at the University of Arizona, Phoenix. She previously held the Sarah Ross Soter Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health at the Ohio State University. Gulati is the Chair of the National Chest Pain Guidelines. She is the author of the popular science book Saving Women’s Heart and Editor-in-Chief of materials for the American College of Cardiology programme CardioSmart.

#1458

Laurence S. Baskin

#103878

Overall Influence

Laurence S. Baskin is a professor of pediatrics and chief of pediatric urology at University of California, San Francisco . His specialty is pediatric urologic reconstruction and the urologic care of patients with myelomeningocele.

#1459

Taine Pechet

#81529

Overall Influence

Taine Pechet is a thoracic surgeon and Chief of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania's Presbyterian Medical Center. Pechet has made substantial contributions to the field of thoracic surgery. He resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

#1460

Owen Wade

#87787

Overall Influence

1921 - 2008 (87 years)

Owen Lyndon Wade was a British medical researcher and academic, described by the Royal College of Physicians as "one of the founding fathers of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics in the UK". Wade was born in Penarth, South Wales, on 17 May 1921, to Katie Jones and James Owen David Wade, the latter a surgeon.

#1461

Ricardo Azziz

#109837

Overall Influence

#1462

Jos R. T. C. Roelandt

#109842

Overall Influence

#1463

Mark Talamini

#109910

Overall Influence

Mark A. Talamini is professor and chairman of surgery, as well as, chief of surgical services at Stony Brook Medicine; editor-in-chief of Surgical Endoscopy, the official journal of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons and European Association for Endoscopic Surgery; and former president of SAGES.

#1464

Catherine Peckham

#63480

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Catherine S. Peckham FFPHM is a British paediatrician. Peckham was the first Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology in the UK, and established the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UCL Institute of Child Health, University College London. The Peckham Lecture is given each year at the Institute of Child Health.

#1465

Arthur E. Weyman

#109978

Overall Influence

#1466

Michael G. Shlipak

#109989

Overall Influence

#1467

Nancy Obuchowski

#100606

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Nancy A. Obuchowski is an American biostatistician whose research concerns the accuracy of image-based medical diagnoses, including the use of nonparametric statistics, receiver operating characteristic curves, and accounting for the effects of clustered data in this application. She works at the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic as vice chair of Quantitative Health Sciences, with a joint appointment in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology. She is also a professor in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

#1468

Stephen D. Douglas

#110033

Overall Influence

#1469

Muzlifah Haniffa

#88425

Overall Influence

Muzlifah Haniffa is a Malaysian dermatologist and immunologist who focuses on the development of the immune system and the use of single-cell techniques to understand biology. Haniffa is a professor and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University.

#1470

Erick K. Rowinsky

#110088

Overall Influence

#1471

Leeanne Carey

#107982

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Professor Leeanne Carey is a world leading Australian neuroscientist in occupational therapy and stroke rehabilitation and recovery research. She is the founding leader of the Neurorehabilitation and Recovery research group in the Stroke division at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne, Australia, and currently holds a Future Fellowship awarded by the Australian Research Council .

#1472

Janine Jagger

#62426

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Janine Jagger is an American epidemiologist, Becton Dickinson Professor of Research of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and director of the International Health Care Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

#1473

Demetrios G. Demetriades

#110287

Overall Influence

#1474

Michael G.m. Hennerici

#110302

Overall Influence

#1475

David Kirsch

#75825

Overall Influence

David Guy Kirsch is an American oncologist currently the Barbara Levine University Professor at Duke University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Education He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2000.

#1476

Rob M. van Dam

#110430

Overall Influence

Rob Martinus van Dam is a Dutch-American nutrition researcher who serves as a professor in the Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. He was educated at Wageningen University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Before joining George Washington University in 2021, he was on the faculty of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, and the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore.

#1477

Sandy Cairncross

#66169

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Alexander "Sandy" Messent Cairncross OBE is an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . He has an interest in environmental interventions for disease control, including both technical issues and policy.

#1478

Lee H. Schwamm

#110518

Overall Influence

#1479

Edward M. Iii Copeland

#110571

Overall Influence

#1480

Nancy Messonnier

#73009

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Nancy Messonnier is an American physician who served as the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2016 to 2021. She worked on the CDC's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

#1481

Irva Hertz-Picciotto

#76929

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Irva Hertz-Picciotto , is an environmental epidemiologist best known for her studies of autism. She is Professor and Chief, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, at the University of California, Davis . In addition, she is on the Research Faculty of the MIND Institute at UC-Davis; is Deputy Director of the UC-Davis Center for Children's Environmental Health; and is on the faculty of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health of the Universities of California at Berkeley, Davis, and San Francisco. Hertz-Picciotto serves on the advis...

#1482

Benjy F. Brooks

#104121

Overall Influence

1918 - 1998 (80 years)

Benjy Frances Brooks was an American pediatric surgeon affiliated with several hospitals in Houston. She was the first woman in the surgery department at Harvard Medical School and the first woman to become a pediatric surgeon in the state of Texas. She founded the pediatric surgery division at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Brooks actively conducted research throughout her career in addition to working as a pediatric surgeon.

#1483

Hiroyuki Tsutsui

#110633

Overall Influence

#1484

David Geller

#86022

Overall Influence

Dr. David Geller is the Richard L. Simmons Professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and co-director of the UPMC Liver Cancer Center. As a hepatobiliary Surgical Oncologist, his clinical interests center on the evaluation and management of patients with liver cancer. He has pioneered laparoscopic liver resections, and has performed more than 300 of these cases. Most of these patients are discharged home on the second post-operative day with four to five band-aid-sized incisions. He also specializes in performing laparoscopic radiofrequency ablations of liver tumors.

#1485

Christiane K. Kuhl

Christiane K. Kuhl

#110641

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Christiane K. Kuhl is a German scientist at RWTH Aachen University. She is Head of the Department of Radiology. Career Kuhl's research focuses on the improvement of MRI scanning in the detection of breast cancer. She is a member of the Radiological Society of North America and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

#1486

David Di Biase

#107166

Overall Influence

1935 - 2001 (66 years)

David Domenic Di Biase was a British dentist. He was best known for developing, together with Arthur Levis , Chief Dental Technician at Southend General Hospital, the Southend Clasp, a widely used retention component used on removable orthodontic appliances.

#1487

Hardy Limeback

#93131

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Hardy Limeback is a Canadian retired full professor and former head of preventive dentistry at the University of Toronto. He received his PhD in collagen biochemistry and his DDS from the University of Toronto. Limeback was one of the twelve panelists who served on the 2006 US National Academies of Sciences/National Research Council's committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards. He has authored or coauthored over 100 publications on dentistry.

#1488

Stefan M. Pulst

#85509

Overall Influence

Stefan M. Pulst is Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He trained in neurology at Medizinische Hochschule Hannover in Germany and at Harvard Medical School, Boston, in the Longwood Neurology Program. He was a visiting scientist at the Brain Tumor Center at UCSF, and subsequently a post-doctoral fellow with Earl Mayeri, Ph.D., in the Department of Physiology working on the multi-peptide bag cell transmitter system in Aplysia. He established his laboratory at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA in Los Angeles in 1987 focusing on genetic analysis of neurological diseases.

#1489

Richard Green

#100369

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Professor Richard Green was a British neuropharmacologist. Green obtained his PhD in 1969 under the supervision of Gerald Curzon, and then spent two years at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, D.C.

#1490

F. Estelle R. Simons

#104645

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Frances Estelle Reed Simons is a Canadian physician and researcher. She was named to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2017. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and grew up there. Simons received her BSc and MD from the University of Manitoba. She studied pediatrics and immunology at the University of Washington. In 1975, she founded the Allergy and Clinical Immunology section in the Pediatrics department at the University of Manitoba and served as its section head from 1975 to 2005. From 1976 to 1991, she was training program director for Allergy and Clinical Immunology. She was ...

#1491

Maggie Telfer

#37965

Overall Influence

Maggie Telfer was a British health activist who provided pioneering support services to drug users in Bristol, England. She was a co-founder of the Bristol Drugs Project in 1986, and acted as its chief executive until her death.

#1492

Shen Hongbing

#79970

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Shen Hongbing is a Chinese epidemiologist and oncologist who has served as director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, since July 2022. Biography Shen was born in Qidong, Jiangsu. He received his bachelor's degree in preventive medicine and master's degree in epidemiology from Nanjing Medical University in 1986 and 1989, respectively. In 1999, he obtained a doctor's degree from Shanghai Medical College. He has served as lecturer, associate professor and professor of epidemiology teaching and research at Nanjing Medical University. He was a senior visiting scholar at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

#1493

Tayyaba Hasan

#99702

Overall Influence

Tayyaba Hasan is a Professor of Dermatology at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Harvard Medical School. She is one of the inventors of Visudyne, a Food and Drug Administration approved treatment for age-related macular degeneration. She received the 2018 SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award.

#1494

Joseph Amon

#54239

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Joseph Amon is an American epidemiologist and human rights activist and currently director of the Health and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. Prior to working at Human Rights Watch, he worked for more than 15 years conducting research, designing programs, and evaluating interventions related to HIV, hepatitis, malaria and guinea worm eradication, for a wide variety of organizations including: the Peace Corps, the Carter Center, Family Health International, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Joseph Amon is 6’3".

#1495

Richard S. Ross

#72521

Overall Influence

1924 - 2015 (91 years)

Richard Starr Ross was an American cardiologist and served as Dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine from 1975 to 1990. He examined Richard M. Nixon for the Watergate investigation. Ross was born in Richmond, Indiana. After graduating from Richmond High School, he began his undergraduate studies at Harvard in 1942, and because of the accelerated academic program during World War II, he entered Harvard Medical School without finishing his undergraduate degree. He graduated cum laude in 1947, then moved to Baltimore, where he planned to spend a year on the Osler Medical Service at Hopkins as an intern and then return to Boston.

#1496

George C. Fahey

#110964

Overall Influence

#1497

Edward Thomas Ryan

Edward Thomas Ryan

#71596

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Edward Thomas Ryan is an American microbiologist, immunologist, and physician at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. Ryan served as president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from 2009 to 2010. Ryan is Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Director of Global Infectious Diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Ryan's research and clinical focus has been on infectious diseases associated with residing in, immigrating from, or traveling through resource-limited areas.

#1498

Fred s. Apple

#111042

Overall Influence

#1499

BethAnn McLaughlin

BethAnn McLaughlin

#40507

Overall Influence

BethAnn McLaughlin is an American neuroscientist, activist, and hoaxer. She is a former assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University. Her research at Vanderbilt focused on neural stress responses and brain injury. After being denied tenure in 2017, she sought to have the decision overturned. The decision to deny tenure was upheld, and her employment at Vanderbilt ended in July 2019.

#1500

Mark A. Hardy

#79735

Overall Influence

Mark A. Hardy is Auchincloss Professor of Surgery, Director Emeritus of the Transplant Centre, and Vice Chairman and Residency Program Director of the Department of Surgery at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

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