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List of the most influential people in Medical,

#3501

Frank Beier

#162793

Overall Influence

Frank Beier is a German–Canadian orthopedist. He is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Musculoskeletal Research at the University of Western Ontario. Early life and education Beier was born and raised in Germany where he completed his Diploma of Biology and PhD at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. He then traveled to North America to complete his post-doctoral training at the University of Calgary.

#3502

Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci

#168760

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci is an Italian cardiologist working in England. Career Bucciarelli-Ducci was born on June 15, 1976. She completed her general medical training and her specialist cardiology training at the Sapienza University in Rome, before taking on a doctorate at Imperial College London. Formerly a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol and Co-Director of the Clinical Research and Imaging Centre Bristol, she was named the Chief Executive Officer of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. Since September 2021, she works at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundat...

#3503

James Lawson

#100994

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

James "Jim" Sutherland Lawson is an Australian public health doctor and scientist, known for research on breast cancer and for public health services and prevention programs, currently in use in Australian and international public health services.

#3504

John Ruckdeschel

#168174

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

John C. Ruckdeschel is an American oncologist who has written 160 peer reviewed articles. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and later on got his medical degree from Albany Medical College. He received training at Johns Hopkins University and Beth Israel Hospital where he was a resident. He was a fellow of the National Cancer Institute and a decade later became faculty member of the second alma mater. In 1991 he became the director and CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa where he worked with Terrance Albrecht. and ten years later held the same position at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan.

#3505

Irene Agyepong

#122000

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Irene Akua Agyepong is a Ghanaian public health physician with the Dodowa Health Research Center and member of the Faculty of Public Health of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. Agyepong led The Lancet commission on the future of healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa.

#3506

Colleen A. Kraft

#100464

Overall Influence

Colleen A. Kraft is an American pediatrician specialized in community pediatrics, child advocacy, and healthcare financing. Early life and education In 1965, Kraft graduated in the first class of the Head Start program. She completed a bachelor's degree at Virginia Tech. Kraft earned a M.D. at the VCU School of Medicine. She completed a pediatric residency at VCU. She completed a M.B.A. at the University of Cincinnati.

#3507

Mark L. Kahn

#142581

Overall Influence

Mark L. Kahn is a cardiologist currently serving as the Edward S. Cooper, M.D./Norman Roosevelt and Elizabeth Meriwether McLure Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, Kahn additionally serves as Director of Center for Vascular Biology and Director of Molecular Cardiology.

#3508

Wei Zheng

#100969

Overall Influence

Wei Zheng is an American pharmaceutical scientist and toxicologist. He is currently the Head of the School of Health Sciences at Purdue University. Biography Zheng received his BS in pharmacy from the Zhejiang University College of Pharmacy in Hangzhou, China; He received a MS in pharmacology from the same college. Zheng later went to study in the United States, and obtained Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

#3509

Scott Hadland

#96569

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Scott E. Hadland is an American physician and scientist who serves as a pediatrician, and addiction specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he is the Chief of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. He previously served as an addiction specialist at the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center.

#3510

Saskia Popescu

#112836

Overall Influence

Saskia Popescu is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Senior Infection Preventionist in Phoenix, Arizona. She holds academic appointments at the University of Arizona and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, where she lectures on biopreparedness and pandemic and outbreak response. Since the start of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, Popescu has worked to prepare for and mitigate the spread of the disease. She has been recognized for her communication efforts around the pandemic, as well as her work on the front lines.

#3511

B. P. Loughridge

B. P. Loughridge

#107523

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Billy Paul Loughridge is a cardiovascular surgeon, author, and health care consultant in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He practiced cardiovascular surgery in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1967 until 1998. During this period he performed more than 10,000 surgeries. He also taught in medical schools, supervised surgery at two hospitals, wrote three books, and served as an expert witness in numerous legal cases involving medical issues. In the 1970s he worked for four years with engineers at a company which makes oil pumping equipment in an unsuccessful attempt to create an artificial heart. Beyond his medical practi...

#3512

Darlene Dixon

#108050

Overall Influence

Darlene Dixon is an American veterinary scientist and toxicologic pathologist researching the pathogenesis/carcinogenesis of tumors affecting the reproductive tract of rodents and humans and assessing the role of environmental and endogenous hormonal factors in the growth of these tumors. She is a senior investigator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

#3513

Pamela Woodard

#140965

Overall Influence

Pamela K. Woodard is an American cardiovascular physician who is the Hugh Monroe Wilson Professor of Radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2022.

#3514

Wendy Atkin

#119799

Overall Influence

1963 - 2018 (55 years)

Wendy Sheila Atkin was Professor of Gastrointestinal Epidemiology at Imperial College London. Early life and education Aitken was born in London on 5 April 1947 to Gella and David Green. She studied pharmacy at the University of London gaining a bachelor's degree in 1968. She studied public health at Columbia University, which she graduated in 1985 with a Master of Public Health degree in 1984. She joined University College London for her graduate studies, where she researched the long-term risk of colorectal cancer following the removal of adenomas and was awarded a PhD in 1991.

#3515

Sydney E. Salmon

#169307

Overall Influence

#3516

Jamie Stang

#162714

Overall Influence

Jamie Sue Stang is an American dietitian and nutritionist. She is an associate professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Early life and education Jamie Sue Stang was born to parents Larry and Ruth. Stang completed a bachelor of science in dietetics at University of North Dakota in 1986. She earned a master of public health in public health nutrition from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988. Stang completed a doctor of philosophy in nutrition with a minor in epidemiology and concentration in public health at the University of Minnesota in 1996.

#3517

Stewart Dunsker

#167840

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Stewart Dunsker M.D., a neurosurgeon, is Professor and Director of Spinal Neurosurgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio.

#3518

Robert J. Mayer

#169444

Overall Influence

#3519

Jill Siegfried

#160238

Overall Influence

Jill M. Siegfried is an American pharmacologist. A Milwaukee, Wisconsin, native, Siegfried attended Wellesley College, where she received a double degree in German and molecular biology before earning advanced degrees in pharmacology from Yale University. Siegfried completed two years of postdoctoral study at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill prior to joining the faculty of University of Pittsburgh. Later, she was named University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Endowed Chair for Lung Cancer Research, a position she left in 2013 to accept an appointment at the University of Minnesota...

#3520

Christine Lovly

#162740

Overall Influence

Christine M. Lovly is an associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. Her research involves the development of novel treatment strategies for ALK positive lung cancer. Early life and education Lovly realised that she wanted to help people suffering from cancer at the age of sixteen. She studied chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. She moved to Washington University in St. Louis for her graduate studies, where she joined the Medical Scientist Training Program. She earned an MD–PhD in 2006. Lovly trained in internal medicine and medical oncology at Vanderbilt University and completed her residency in 2008.

#3521

Gina Ogilvie

#166469

Overall Influence

Gina Suzanne Ogilvie is a Canadian global and public health physician. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Control of HPV related diseases and prevention, and Professor at the University of British Columbia in their School of Population and Public Health.

#3522

Linda McCauley

#124356

Overall Influence

Linda A. McCauley is an American scientist and academic administrator. She is dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. She was a professor of nursing and associate dean of research at University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

#3523

Demetrius Klee Lopes

Demetrius Klee Lopes

#153913

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Demetrius Klee Lopes is a cerebrovascular neurosurgeon specializing in neuroendovascular therapy. At Advocate Health, he serves as medical director of the cerebrovascular and neuroendovascular program and is co-director of their stroke program.

#3524

Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz

#107987

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz is a French paediatrician, Professor and Director of the Developmental Neuroimaging Lab at CNRS. Her research uses non-invasive brain imaging to understand children's cognitive function. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

#3525

Gianluca Tognon

Gianluca Tognon

#163925

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Gianluca Tognon is an Italian food scientist, researcher, public health expert, author and speaker. In 2017 he has founded the consulting company The Food Scientist, which is based in Sweden. Education Gianluca Tognon has obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Pavia in 2000. The title of his dissertation was Effects of the antitumor drug Paclitaxel on human colon cancer. In 2003 he has obtained a specialist degree in Pharmacological research from Regione Lombardia . In 2005 he has completed a Medical specialty degree in Food science and human nutrition at the University of Pavia.

#3526

Kenneth Blaxter

#122290

Overall Influence

1919 - 1991 (72 years)

Sir Kenneth Lyon Blaxter FRS PRSE FIBiol was an English animal nutritionist. Biography Early life Blaxter was born on 19 June 1919 in Sprowston, England and grew up in Norfolk. His father made handicrafts and his mother came from a family of farm workers. Blaxter studied at the City of Norwich School until 1936. He was bored in school and received poor grades. As a teenager, Blaxter spent his spare time at the Norfolk Agricultural Station, a short distance from the family home. Soon after, he enrolled in day classes in agriculture at the Norfolk County Council, winning the class prize for the highest mark.

#3527

Gwen W. Collman

#157270

Overall Influence

Gwen W. Collman is an American environmental epidemiologist. Collman is acting deputy director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and works as director of the division of extramural research and training.

#3528

Jennifer Ahern

#133119

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Jennifer Ahern is an American epidemiologist. She currently holds the King Sweesy and Robert Womack Endowed Chair and is Associate Dean for Research at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the effects of the social and physical environment, and programs and policies that alter the social and physical environment, on many aspects of health including violence, substance abuse, mental health, and perinatal health.

#3529

T. W. J. Huizinga

#169920

Overall Influence

#3530

Natalie Dean

#127483

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (39 years)

Natalie E. Dean is an American biostatistician specializing in infectious disease epidemiology. Dean is currently an assistant professor of Biostatistics at the University of Florida. Her research involves epidemiological modeling of outbreaks, including Ebola, Zika and COVID-19.

#3531

Joerg Hasford

#137520

Overall Influence

1950 - 2021 (71 years)

Joerg Hasford is a German physician, biometrician, and epidemiologist. He is emeritus professor in the Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, chair of the Ethics Committee of the Physicians’ Chamber of the Free State of Bavaria, president of the Association of the Research Ethics Committees in Germany and a member of the Expert Group on Clinical Trials of the European Commission. He has been influential in the study of safety of drugs and pharmacoepidemiology. He was one of the first biostatisticians to look at reliably compiled drug dosing history data in light of pharmacometric consequences.

#3532

Mati Hlatshwayo Davis

#133320

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis is a Zimbabwean born, American based physician and public health expert in Missouri. Her subspecialty is infectious diseases, with a focus on community engagement addressing health disparities amongst people from historically marginalized groups. She serves as the Director of Health for the City of St. Louis Department of Health.

#3533

E. R. Ørskov

#169999

Overall Influence

#3534

Mel B. Feany

#121832

Overall Influence

Mel B. Feany is an American neuropathologist and geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital who researches neurodegenerative disease. She is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease.

#3535

Marlys Koschinsky

#145881

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Marlys Laverne Koschinsky is a Canadian cardiovascular researcher. , she is the executive director at the University of Western Ontario's Robarts Research Institute. Koschinsky formally served as Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Windsor.

#3536

Deidra Crews

#145250

Overall Influence

Deidra C. Crews MD, ScM is an American nephrologist and epidemiologist. She is the Deputy Director of Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity and a Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Crews research focuses on social drivers of disparities in kidney disease and hypertension.

#3537

Raquel Seruca

#113511

Overall Influence

1962 - 2022 (60 years)

Racquel Seruca was a Portuguese oncobiologist known for her work on stomach cancer. Life Seruca was born and raised in Porto. She graduated in medicine at the University of Porto before obtaining a PhD in the molecular genetics of stomach cancer in 1995. She was supervised by Professor . She was then a fellow at the University of Groningen in the Human Genetics department.

#3538

Craig R. Smith

#170345

Overall Influence

#3539

Meredith Shiels

#137637

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Meredith Sarah Shiels is an American cancer epidemiologist who researches cancer risks in people with HIV. She is a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute. Life Meredith Sarah Shiels was born May 6, 1982, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Judy and Stuart Shiels. She completed a B.S. in Biobehavioral Health in 2004 from the Schreyer Honors College of Pennsylvania State University. Her honor's thesis was titled, Effects of 24-hour smoking abstinence and tobacco smoking on salivary cortisol levels and self-reported craving in men and women. Laura Cousino Klein was her advisor.

#3540

Colin Soskolne

#170391

Overall Influence

Colin L. Soskolne is a Canadian epidemiologist and author who was born, raised and educated in South Africa. He relocated to North America in 1977 to pursue his PhD studies in epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

#3541

Kristín Ingólfsdóttir

#63273

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Kristín Ingólfsdóttir is an Icelandic pharmaceutical scientist and former president and rector of the University of Iceland. She served two terms from 2005 to 2015 and was the first woman to hold office in the university's 100-year history. She succeeded Páll Skúlason.

#3542

Stephanie J. Weinstein

#135887

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Stephanie Joan Weinstein is an American nutritionist and cancer epidemiologist who is a staff scientist in the metabolic epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute. She researches diet and cancer associations with a with a focus on vitamin D, vitamin E, and one-carbon metabolism. Weinstein was formerly an environmental toxicologist at a consulting firm.

#3543

Wayne Bowen

#168009

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Wayne Bowen is an American pharmacologist and biologist, currently the Upjohn University Professor of Pharmacology at Brown University.

#3544

Everett Shapiro

#170613

Overall Influence

1917 - 2002 (85 years)

Everett Shapiro was an American orthodontist who was a past president of the American Board of Orthodontics and the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. Life He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on December 5, 1917. He attended the University of Massachusetts and obtained his bachelor's degree in 1940. He received his dental degree from Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1944. He then served in the United States Army for two years where he became a captain. He then obtained his certificate in orthodontics from Tufts Dental School in 1949. He became part of the faculty of the Department of Orthodontics after graduation until 1960.

#3545

Sarah Blagden

#144960

Overall Influence

Sarah Blagden is a Professor of Experimental Oncology at the University of Oxford. Her laboratory research is in investigating post-transcriptional mechanisms for ovarian cancer behavior. Her clinical research is in conducting early phase trials in novel cancer therapeutics for people with advanced malignancies.

#3546

Anna Sarkadi

#156543

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Anna Kristiansson Sarkadi is a physician and professor of public health at Uppsala University in Sweden. Her expertise is in parenting and the health of children. Education Sarkadi was born in February 1974 on the Buda side of Budapest, Hungary. She is the daughter of two physicians and professors, Zsófia Kálmán and Balázs Sarkadi, and sister of puppeteer Bence Sarkadi. She studied medicine first in Hungary and then in Sweden, where she moved in 1995. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2001 from Uppsala University, with a thesis on The borderland between care and self-care.

#3547

Jocalyn Clark

#164181

Overall Influence

Jocalyn Clark is a Canadian Public Health Scientist and the International Editor of The BMJ, with responsibility for strategy and internationalising the journal's content, contributors and coverage. From 2016 to 2022, Jocalyn was an Executive Editor at The Lancet, where she led the Commentary section, coordinated peer review, and edited and delivered collections of articles and Commissions on topics such as maternal and child health, oral health, migration, end of life care and gender equity. She led the Lancet's project to advance women in science, medicine, and global health, #LancetWomen....

#3548

Carlo Maley

#87326

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Carlo C. Maley is the director of the Arizona Cancer and Evolution Center, the first president of the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer, co-founder and director of the Center for Evolution and Cancer at UCSF and was a member of the advisory board of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center . He is currently an associate professor in The Biodesign Institute and the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University.

#3549

Alison P. Galvani

#138161

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Alison P. Galvani is an American epidemiologist. She is the Burnett and Stender Families Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and the Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis.

#3550

Sue Pullon

#169263

Overall Influence

Sue Pullon is a New Zealand public health researcher and practicing GP. She is the author of the New Zealand Pregnancy Book. Background Pullon is a professor at the University of Otago's Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She was Head of the Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice from 2010 to 2017.

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