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List of the most influential people in Medical,

#1701

Marcel Salathé

#84507

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Marcel Salathé is a Swiss digital epidemiologist. He is currently an associate professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne He is the director of the Lab of Digital Epidemiology, based at EPFL's Geneva Campus. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Salathé was the most quoted scientist in the Swiss media.

#1702

Margaret R. Spitz

#117123

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#1703

Dr David G. Shand

#117253

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#1704

David B. Skinner

#117345

Overall Influence

#1705

Daniel Aletaha

#117353

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

#1706

Scott A. Armstrong

#83285

Overall Influence

Scott Allen Armstrong is an American pediatric oncologist and cancer biologist focused on chromatin-based control of gene expression in cancer and therapeutic discovery. Armstrong and his team were the first to isolate rare leukemia stem cells in a mouse model of leukemia.

#1707

John J. Bergan

#117499

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#1708

Keryn Williams

#115715

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Professor Keryn Anne Williams is an Australian medical scientist who works in the field of ophthalmology. She was a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at Flinders University. Her research interests include clinical and experimental corneal transplantation, ocular inflammation, ocular immunology and eye banking.

#1709

Hansjürgen Matthies

#108565

Overall Influence

1925 - 2008 (83 years)

Hansjürgen Matthies was a German pharmacologist and neuroscientist. He served as a professor and the Institute Director at the Magdeburg Medical Academy, and was also the director of another academic institute outside the university. Colleagues describe him as "the doyen of Neuroscience in Magdeburg" and more widely in the German Democratic Republic. After the political changes of 1989/90 his work continued at the institution now remodelled as the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and the closely associated Leibnitz Institute for Neurobiology.

#1710

Roderick Flower

#101491

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Roderick John Flower , also known as Rod, is a British pharmacologist, and professor at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Flower is a member of the board of directors of Antibe Therapeutics and on the scientific advisory board of Morria.

#1711

Albert Heyman

#117626

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#1712

John J. Hermans

#117646

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#1713

Luisa DiPietro

#73500

Overall Influence

Luisa DiPietro is a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry. She is Director of the Center for Wound Repair and Tissue Regeneration and a Professor of Periodontics for the College.

#1714

John Stewart Cameron

#117663

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#1715

Boris Tabakoff

#117664

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#1716

Michael H. Davidson

#117679

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#1717

Ole Fejerskov

#117692

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

#1718

Elazer R. Edelman

Elazer R. Edelman

#50677

Overall Influence

Elazer R. Edelman is an American engineer, scientist and cardiologist. He is the Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and at Brigham and Women's Hospital , and a practicing cardiologist at BWH. He is the director of MIT's Institute for Medical Engineering and Science , the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center, and the MIT Clinical Research Center. He is also the Program Director of the MIT Graduate Education in Medical Sciences program within the Harvard-MIT Division o...

#1719

Chen Chao-long

#100941

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Chen Chao-long is a Taiwanese transplant surgeon. Early life and education Chen was born in Kaohsiung on 29 September 1950. He earned his medical degree at Kaohsiung Medical University and trained in surgery at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and The Hospital for Sick Children, followed by a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he worked with Thomas Starzl. He has taught at China Medical University and Chang Gung University.

#1720

Susan Brain

#104058

Overall Influence

Susan Diana Brain is a professor of pharmacology at the School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences at King's College London where she has worked since 1989. Education Brain completed a PhD in pharmacology at University College London in 1981.

#1721

Thomas C. Gasser

#117803

Overall Influence

#1722

Adnan Hyder

#104675

Overall Influence

Adnan A. Hyder is Senior Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Global Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. Education Hyder received his MD from Aga Khan University in Pakistan in 1990. Subsequently, Hyder moved to Johns Hopkins University and earned his MPH in 1993 and his PhD in 1998, where Timothy D. Baker, a founding leader of international health, was one of his mentors, while Richard H. Morrow was his thesis advisor.

#1723

Gerhard Werner

#57077

Overall Influence

1947 - 2012 (65 years)

Gerhard Werner was a medical doctor and scholar active in research covering areas of pharmacology, psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, especially neurodynamics, artificial intelligence, and complexity theory. During his career, and continuing after his retirement in 1989, he published just over a hundred scientific papers and held administrative posts in government, academic and corporate institutions.

#1724

Joel Kleinman

#108851

Overall Influence

1946 - 1991 (45 years)

Joel C. Kleinman was an American health statistician and epidemiologist specializing on the causes of infant mortality. He was director of analysis at the National Center for Health Statistics. Life Kleinman was born in 1946 in Brooklyn to Rose and George Kleinman. He was raised in the Bronx. In 1967, he earned a bachelor's degree from City College of New York. He completed a master's degree and Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University. He worked there as an assistant professor of biostatistics from 1971 to 1975. In 1975, Kleinman joined the National Center for Health Statistics as a visiting service fellow.

#1725

A. Wallace Hayes

#117925

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

#1726

Dirk Joan Gouma

#117986

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#1727

Alan Coates

#105625

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Alan Stuart Coates is an Australian professor of clinical oncology, medical researcher and administrator. He was the inaugural CEO of the Cancer Council Australia , former president of the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia , and co-chair of the St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference. He was also the first non-American to be elected to the board of directors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

#1728

Colin Baigent

#116317

Overall Influence

Colin Baigent is a British academic physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist. He is a professor of epidemiology, Director of the Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit at the University of Oxford, and deputy director of the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit , part of Oxford Population Health . His work is focused in the design and coordination of large-scale randomised trials and the use of meta-analysis to assess the efficacy and safety of drugs for the prevention of cardiovascular disease or premature death.

#1729

Brenda Eskenazi

#118105

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#1730

Guido Noel Jozef Tytgat

#118109

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#1731

Audrey Cahn

#82680

Overall Influence

1905 - 2008 (103 years)

Audrey Josephine Cahn was an Australian microbiologist and nutritionist. The daughter of Prof. William Alexander Osborne and Ethel Elizabeth Goodson, a medical practitioner and industrial hygienist, she was born Audrey Josephine Osborne in Melbourne and grew up on the campus of the University of Melbourne. She earned a Bachelor of Agricultural Science at the university in 1929 and, later, received a diploma in dietetics. She first worked as a microbiologist and food analyst for Kraft.

#1732

Nabil E. El-sherif

#118170

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#1733

Timothy Byers

#118183

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#1734

Mary V. Relling

#116873

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Mary Violet Relling is an American pharmacogeneticist. Relling's research focuses on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in children and how genome variability influences a child's response to cancer chemotherapy.

#1735

W. R. Wayne Martin

#118205

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#1736

Junji Tagami

#118219

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#1737

Richard E. Behrman

#118224

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#1738

Darrell R. Abernethy

#118250

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#1739

Olivier Rascol

#118253

Overall Influence

#1740

Morten Frisch

#95472

Overall Influence

Morten Frisch is a Danish epidemiologist who works as a consultant and senior investigator at the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen. Education and career Frisch received his M.D. in 1989, his Ph.D. in 1995, and his D.Sc. in 2002, all from the University of Copenhagen. In 2008, he was appointed an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen. In 2012, he was appointed an adjunct professor of sexual health epidemiology at Aalborg University.

#1741

Alfons Schnitzler

#118311

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

#1742

Thomas Diekwisch

#75670

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Thomas G. H. Diekwisch is a German dentist who is founding chair of the Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences at the Eastman Institute for Oral Health at the University of Rochester. Birth and genealogy Thomas Gustav Heinrich Diekwisch was born on February 27, 1961, in Bielefeld, West Germany. The two middle names correspond to his two grandfathers’ first names. Diekwisch is a common name in Northern Germany and translates into “meadow by the lake”. In the 1840s and again in the 1920s, members of the Diekwisch family moved from Germany to the United States, mostly to Illinois. Thomas D...

#1743

Celina Turchi

#91731

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Celina Maria Turchi Martelli is a Brazilian epidemiologist, graduated by Federal University of Goiás and researcher at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz in Recife. She first associated the link between zika virus and microcephaly in newborn babies during the 2015 disease outbreak in Brazil; she was listed by Nature magazine as one of the 10 most notable people in science in 2016, and by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2017.

#1744

Gillian M. Keating

#118391

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#1745

Jasmine Zapata

#100578

Overall Influence

Jasmine Y. Zapata is an American physician and epidemiologist. She is the chief medical officer and state epidemiologist for community health at Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Her career includes work as a pediatrician, public health researcher, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, author, and her support for youth empowerment with a variety of initiatives.

#1746

Neill R. Graff‐radford

#118557

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#1747

Michael M. Meguid

Michael M. Meguid

#102812

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Michael M. Meguid is Professor of Surgery Emeritus at Upstate Medical University , Syracuse, New York. Biography Born in Egypt, Michael Marwan Meguid spent his childhood in Egypt, Germany, and then England. There he attended University College London and University College Hospital Medical School, graduating with his MB BS degree in 1968. For the next two years he was an Anatomy Professor at UCL, while he successfully completed Part 1 of the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons , London qualification. From 1970 until 1976 he did his surgical residency at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, ...

#1748

Prakash C. Deedwania

#118579

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#1749

Sergey Gauthier

Sergey Gauthier

#96684

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Sergey Vladimirovich Gauthier is a Russian surgeon and transplantologist, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences , Chief Transplantologist of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Medical Sciences .

#1750

Stephane Marie Oudard

#118620

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