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Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.

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List of the most influential people in Medical,

#3451

Barnett S. Kramer

#166909

Overall Influence

#3452

Atsushi Ichikawa

#166920

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#3453

Markus Otto

#166924

Overall Influence

#3454

Patricia J. Kissinger

#166928

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#3455

Shahina Pardhan

#166959

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#3456

S. Serge Barold

#167029

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#3457

Philip D. Henry

#167216

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#3458

Bita Esmaeli

#167231

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

#3459

Geert Kazemier

#167306

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#3460

Atsushi Kawakami

#167354

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#3461

Hiroshi Ashihara

#167357

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#3462

Sjoerd Rodenhuis

#167393

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#3463

Herbert Hönigsmann

#167394

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#3464

Carl Van Walraven

#167433

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#3465

Robert A. Neal

#167456

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#3466

Friedhelm Hummel

#164084

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel is a German neuroscientist and neurologist. A full professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, he is the Defitech Chair of Clinical Neuroengineering, and the head of the Hummel Laboratory at EPFL's School of Life Sciences. He also is an associate professor of clinical neuroscience at the University of Geneva.

#3467

Scott D. Flamm

#167488

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#3468

Shirley G. Driscoll

#167499

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#3469

Takashi Miyauchi

#167511

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#3470

Garth Taylor

#106544

Overall Influence

1944 - 2005 (61 years)

The Honourable Dr. Garth Alfred Taylor, OJ, Ph.D. was a Jamaican ophthalmologist, professor, and humanitarian. Born in Montego Bay, Taylor was a Queen's Scout in his youth. He received his education at Cornwall College in Jamaica and Queen's University in Ontario. He later became an associate professor of ophthalmology at the latter institution, as well as chief of ophthalmology at Cornwall Community Hospital in Canada.

#3471

Joseph Herbert Abramson

#167577

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#3472

Waisang W.s. Poon

#167592

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#3473

Elizabeth Ngugi

Elizabeth Ngugi

#81877

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Ngugi was a Kenyan Professor of Community Health at the University of Nairobi, and a nurse by trade. Her major contributions to her university's program was her research and work with local prostitutes to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission. Ngugi is described as the first Kenyan nurse to become a professor.

#3474

Sergio Piomelli

#167652

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#3475

Tetsuo Shiohara

#167655

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#3476

Lysia S. Forno

#167705

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#3477

Christel C. Herold‐mende

#167772

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#3478

Howard E. Skipper

Howard E. Skipper

#124620

Overall Influence

1915 - 2006 (91 years)

Howard Earle Skipper was a noted American oncologist. He grew up in Sebring, Florida and received his science degrees from the University of Florida. During the war, he became interested in cancer research while working for what was then called the Chemical Warfare Service of the United States Army. By 1957, he had become a notable cancer researcher in Alabama and went on to serve as head of the Southern Research Institute.

#3479

Elizabeth Rakoczy

#142658

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Elizabeth P. Rakoczy is a Hungarian-born molecular ophthalmologist. She is a professor at the University of Western Australia. She started the molecular ophthalmology department at the Lions Eye Institute. In 2017, Rakoczy was awarded the Florey Medal for her human gene therapy trial to modify viruses for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration.

#3480

Neena Modi

#160824

Overall Influence

Neena Modi is a British physician and Professor of Neonatal medicine at Imperial College London. She is the current president of the UK Medical Women’s Federation, and past president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, serving in this role from April 2015 to April 2018. She is one of only four women to ever hold this position.

#3481

Robert A. Stern

#168062

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

#3482

Nathan Kuppermann

#159047

Overall Influence

Nathan Kuppermann is an American pediatrician and emergency physician who is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He serves as a distinguished professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the UC Davis School of Medicine, educating future physicians about the fields he is adept in. Additionally, he holds the esteemed Bo Tomas Brofeldt Endowed Chair in emergency medicine. Dr. Kuppermann has made many notable contributions as the founding chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network , and subsequently as the chair of the global Pediatric Emergency Research Network .

#3483

Krina Zondervan

#160158

Overall Influence

Krina Tynke Zondervan is a Dutch biomedical scientist who is a Professor of Genomic Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. She serves on the board of the World Endometriosis Society. Early life and education Zondervan was born in the Netherlands. She was a masters student in biomedical sciences at the Leiden University. She moved to the University of Oxford as an Erasmus Programme student in 1993, where she worked toward a doctorate in the epidemiology of chronic pelvic pain. She was awarded a Medical Research Council Research Fellowship to work on Genetic Epidemiology. She was part of the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics in genetic epidemiology.

#3484

Calvin Zippin

#157100

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Calvin Zippin is a cancer epidemiologist and biostatistician, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco . He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American College of Epidemiology and the Royal Statistical Society of Great Britain. His doctoral thesis was the basis for the Zippin Estimator, a procedure for estimating wildlife populations using data from trapping experiments. He was a principal investigator in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program of the Na...

#3485

Ana Andreazza

#160192

Overall Influence

Ana Cristina Andreazza is a Brazilian–Canadian pharmacologist. She is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Toronto. Early life and education Andreazza received her Bachelor in Pharmacy degree from the University of Caxias do Sul and her Master's degree and PhD in biochemistry from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Following this, she completed her postdoctoral fellowships in Brazil and at the University of British Columbia. In 2009, she received a Trainee Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research for identifying biomarke...

#3486

Shahina Pardhan

#143812

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Shahina Pardhan is the Director of the Vision and Eye Research Unit and the Anglia Ruskin University School of Medicine. She was the first woman to be appointed Professor of Optometry in the United Kingdom.

#3487

Douglas Wiebe

#113683

Overall Influence

Douglas James Wiebe is associate professor of epidemiology at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Education Wiebe received his B.A. in psychology from the University of Calgary in 1991, his M.A. in criminology from Indiana State University in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine in 2000. He then completed postdoctoral studies in injury epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health.

#3488

Stephen Gange

#100541

Overall Influence

Stephen Gange is an American statistician, epidemiologist, and academic administrator of Johns Hopkins University. He is a professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

#3489

Jean E. Schaffer

#99849

Overall Influence

Jean Elise Schaffer is an American physician-scientist. She is a Senior Investigator at the Joslin Diabetes Center, where she also serves as Associate Research Director, and she is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her work focuses on fundamental mechanisms of metabolic stress responses and the pathophysiology of diabetes complications.

#3490

Giancarlo Logroscino

#168251

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#3491

Kamran Abbasi

#168264

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#3492

Kevin Petrecca

#117781

Overall Influence

Kevin Petrecca is a neurosurgical oncologist, currently chief of the Department of Neurosurgery at the McGill University Health Centre and appointed as the William Feindel Chair in Neuro-Oncology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

#3493

Mario Deng

#139050

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Mario Chih-Hsiung Karl Deng is a German-Chinese cardiologist specialized in the care of patients with advanced heart failure. Deng is a Professor of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

#3494

Shih-Chun Wang

#96802

Overall Influence

1910 - 1993 (83 years)

Shih-Chun Wang was a Chinese-American medical doctor, neuroscientist, and pharmacology professor. Early life and education Wang was born on January 25, 1910, in Tianjin, China. He attended Yenching University in Beijing where he received a bachelor of science in 1931 before going to Peking Union Medical College to earn his medical degree in 1935. In 1937, Wang received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to travel to the United States to study neurology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He worked under the direction of S.W. Ransom at the Institute of Neurology in the Northwestern University Medical School where he received his Ph.D.

#3495

Chen Chien-jen

#89078

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Chen Chien-jen is a Taiwanese epidemiologist and politician who has served as the premier of the Republic of China since 2023. He joined the Chen Shui-bian presidential administration in 2003 as leader of the Department of Health, serving through 2005. He later headed the National Science Council between 2006 and 2008. Chen then served as a vice president of Academia Sinica from 2011 to 2015. Later that year, Chen joined Tsai Ing-wen on the Democratic Progressive Party presidential ticket and served as Vice President of Taiwan from 2016 to 2020. Chen joined the DPP in 2022 and was appointed...

#3496

J. Michael Millis

#87610

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James Michael Millis is an American academic and surgeon specializing in pediatric and adult liver transplantation. He is Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair of Global Surgery at University of Chicago. He is also the director of Clinical Leadership Development Fellowship and Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He is known for developing new techniques of liver surgery that improved outcomes following liver transplantation and non transplant liver and biliary tract surgery.

#3497

Hongtao Yu

#168552

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#3498

L. Ebony Boulware

#154080

Overall Influence

Leigh Ebony Boulware is an American general internist, physician-scientist, and clinical epidemiologist. She is the Dean of Wake Forest School of Medicine and chief science officer and vice chief academic officer of Advocate Health. Boulware formerly served as the Nanaline Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine and director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the Duke University School of Medicine.

#3499

Hinrich Bitter-Suermann

#132791

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Hinrich Bitter-Suermann is a German-Canadian pathologist and professor of surgery specialized in organ transplantation. Education Bitter-Suermann studied 1959-1965 medicine and sciences at Würzburg University, Göttingen University and Kiel University. In Würzburg he became a member of the German Student Corps Nassovia and in Göttingen he joined the Corps Hannovera . In 1965 he accomplished his studies and summa cum laude graduated Dr. med. in Göttingen.

#3500

Colin Dollery

#146213

Overall Influence

Sir Colin Terence Dollery was a clinical pharmacologist who spent much of his life working for SmithKline Beecham and its successor, Glaxo Smith Kline. He was knighted in the Queen's 1987 birthday honours. He was an honorary fellow of the British Pharmacological Society and a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

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