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#3551

Ned Abraham

#138278

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Ned Abraham was an Associate Professor of surgery at the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales and is a general & colorectal surgeon, a clinical academic and a retired Australian Army Reserve Officer. He has spoken at multiple national and international meetings in four continents and his published articles in general, colorectal and academic surgery have been cited in the medical literature close to two thousand times. He continues to practice surgery in Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia.

#3552

Philip D. Ross

#171030

Overall Influence

#3553

Suzanne Crowe

#109691

Overall Influence

Suzanne Crowe is an Irish anaesthesiologist, intensivist, and current president of the Medical Council of Ireland. Background and education Crowe is from Bray, County Wicklow. She obtained her medical degree from Trinity College Dublin in 1995. She completed specialist training in anaesthesia and intensive care through the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland , followed by a fellowship at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. She became a Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1999 and a Fellow of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of Ireland in 2006.

#3554

Norman Bowery

#110622

Overall Influence

Professor Norman Bowery , was a British pharmacologist and former Head of Division of Neuroscience and Chair of Pharmacology at the University of Birmingham from 1995 to 2004. He was president of the British Pharmacological Society from 1995 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2000.

#3555

Partho P. Sengupta

#156588

Overall Influence

Partho P. Sengupta is an Indian-American cardiologist. He is the Henry Rutgers Professor of Cardiology and Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Disease & Hypertension at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Chief of Cardiology, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital since July 1, 2021. Between 2019 and 2021, Dr. Sengupta was the Abnash C. Jain Chair & Professor of Cardiology at West Virginia University School of Medicine and the Chief of Division of Cardiology, Chair of Cardiovascular Innovation and Director of Cardiac Imaging at West Virginia University Heart and Vascular In...

#3556

Boghuma Kabisen Titanji

#135721

Overall Influence

Boghuma Kabisen Titanji is a Cameroonian medical doctor and clinical researcher. She is an expert on HIV drug resistant viruses. Education and work Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, clinically trained in Cameroon, received her MSc and DTM&H in Tropical Medicine and International Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2010 and a PhD in Infectious Diseases studying HIV-1 cell-to-cell spread and Antiretroviral therapy drug resistance from University College London in 2014. Titanji's work focuses on the mechanisms of HIV transmission and antiretroviral drug resistance. In May 2012,...

#3557

Li Lianda

#89734

Overall Influence

1934 - 2018 (84 years)

Li Lianda was a Chinese pharmacologist and paediatrician with the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and served as Dean of the School of Pharmacy of Zhejiang University.

#3558

Karin Schallreuter

#152455

Overall Influence

Karin Uta Schallreuter is a German-born medical scientist, and emerita professor for Clinical and Experimental Dermatology at the University of Bradford, England. She has researched the fields of vitiligo and eczema.

#3559

Ora Paltiel

#169845

Overall Influence

Ora Paltiel is an epidemiologist and a professor in the Braun School of Public Health, where she was also director of the Master’s in Public Health program from 2013 until 2016, and in the Department of Hematology. She has also served as Dean at the Braun School.

#3560

Allen Taylor

#167847

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Allen Taylor is an American scientist and Professor of Nutrition, Development, Molecular and Chemical Biology, and Ophthalmology. He is the Senior Scientist and Director of the Laboratory for Nutrition & Vision Research at the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging. Dr. Taylor also founded and directs the Science Training Encouraging Peace Graduate Training Program , which pairs Israeli and Palestinian advanced level health science students in the same graduate training program in an effort to foster sustainable, cooperative relationships that advance the careers of the STEP Fellows and provide improved health care in the communities they serve.

#3561

Richard Crevenna

#159095

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Richard Crevenna is an Austrian medical specialist, Head of the Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Occupational Medicine, Professor for physical medicine and a medical specialist for general rehabilitation with the special subject geriatrics, Pain Medicine, Geriatrics, and Occupational Medicne at the Medical University of Vienna . He is known for his basic work on cancer rehabilitation, interdisciplinary pain medicine and biofeedback.

#3562

Aliasger K. Salem

#112928

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Aliasger K. Salem is the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Iowa and Bighley Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy. Salem's academic appointment at the University of Iowa is based in the College of Pharmacy, with additional secondary appointments in the College of Dentistry, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemistry, and the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. Prior to joining the University of Iowa in 2004, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the J...

#3563

Nicola Cherry

#169712

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Nicola Mary Cherry is a Canadian occupational epidemiologist. As a professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Alberta, Cherry has studied the effects natural disasters and pandemics have had on the population and crisis workers. In 2012, she established the Foundation Course in Occupational Medicine for Community-Based Physicians.

#3564

Ralph Kuncl

#52977

Overall Influence

Ralph W. Kuncl is an American neurologist and president emeritus of the University of Redlands. His previous administrative positions include as provost/executive vice president at the University of Rochester and provost at Bryn Mawr College. The majority of his early career was spent at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he served as professor of neurology, pathology, and cellular and molecular medicine and became known for his research on the disease mechanisms of muscle disorders and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis .

#3565

Lysle E. Johnston Jr.

#169569

Overall Influence

Lysle E. Johnston Jr. is an American orthodontist. He was raised in East Jordan, Michigan, and began study at the University of Michigan College of Dentistry in 1957. He worked under James Scott at the University of Belfast in Ireland from 1961 to 1962, returning to earn an orthodontic Master of Science degree from Michigan in 1964. Johnston attended Case Western Reserve University for doctoral studies in anatomy, graduating in 1970. He taught at Case Western from 1971 to 1976, when he joined the Saint Louis University faculty. Johnston was appointed Robert W. Browne Professor of Dentistry and...

#3566

Song Ho-young

#122704

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Song Ho-young is a South Korean radiologist. He studied at the Chonbuk National University and now works at the Asan Medical Center. He is the founder of the Society of Gastrointestinal Intervention .

#3567

Bonnie Duran

#161217

Overall Influence

Bonnie Duran is an American public health researcher and Professor in the Schools of Social Work and Public Health. Duran studies the public health of indigenous communities, and has partnered with the Navajo Nation, Indian Health Service and National Congress of American Indians.

#3568

Danielle Laraque-Arena

#140640

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Danielle Laraque-Arena is an American pediatrician, academician and administrator. She is currently a senior scholar-in-residence at the New York Academy of Medicine. Prior to her role at the academy, she was a professor at Einstein College and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, as well as chair of the pediatrics department at Maimonides Medical Center. From 2016 to 2018, Laraque-Arena served as president of State University of New York Upstate Medical University, succeeding Gregory Eastwood as the first woman to be president. In that role, she also served as CEO of the Upstate Health System.

#3569

Donald Dorfman

#130489

Overall Influence

1933 - 2001 (68 years)

Donald Daniel Dorfman was an American mathematical psychologist and radiologist known for his research on signal detection theory. Education and career Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dorfman graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954. He received his master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1957 and 1961, respectively. In 1962, he joined the faculty of San Diego State University, where he remained until 1968, when he joined the University of Iowa's faculty. He became a professor of psychology at the University of Iowa in 1974 and a professor ...

#3570

Tonia Poteat

#167771

Overall Influence

Tonia C. Poteat is an American epidemiologist. She is an associate professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina where she focuses on HIV, having previously worked at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

#3571

A. Cecile J.W. Janssens

#162974

Overall Influence

1968 - 2022 (54 years)

Anna Caecilia Josephina Wilhelmina Janssens was a Dutch epidemiologist and research professor of translational epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Much of her research focused on polygenic score-based genetic risk prediction for complex diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular disease, of which she was critical. She also criticized what she considered an excessive focus on the role of genetics in attempts to prevent and treat human diseases.

#3572

JoAnn Trejo

#126811

Overall Influence

JoAnn Trejo is an American pharmacologist, cell biologist, a professor, and also an assistant vice chancellor in the department of health sciences faculty affairs in the Department of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine at University of California, San Diego. She is also the assistant vice chancellor for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs. Trejo studies cell signalling by protease-activated G protein-coupled receptors . She is also actively involved in mentoring, education and outreach activities to increase the diversity of science.

#3573

Dion Morton

#117911

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Dion Gregory Morton is a leading colorectal surgeon at the University of Birmingham, where he has been Professor of Surgery since 2006. He was appointed Barling Chair of Surgery at the University of Birmingham in 2015. In addition he has served as Director of Clinical Research at the Royal College of Surgeons of England since 2011. In the latter role he has worked to establish a national infrastructure to support the development and dissemination of clinical trials in surgery. He has championed the role of large-scale multi centre randomised controlled trials in informing best practice in sur...

#3574

Lindsay Morton

#87715

Overall Influence

Lindsay McOmber Morton is an American cancer epidemiologist who researches genetic susceptibility to second cancers. She is the acting chief of the radiation epidemiology branch and head of its cancer survivorship research unit at the National Cancer Institute.

#3575

Catarina Resende de Oliveira

#122296

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Catarina Resende de Oliveira is a Portuguese neurologist, researcher, university professor, and doctor. A full professor of biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, she studies the processes that cause neurological degeneration responsible for illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

#3576

Moses Alobo

#162935

Overall Influence

Moses Alobo is a Kenyan physician, public health researcher and social entrepreneur. He leads the African Academy of Sciences Grand Challenges Africa Programme. He specialises in the implementation of health research in resource-limited countries, including programmes in vaccinology and antimicrobial resistance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Alobo led the African Academy of Sciences' response to coronavirus disease.

#3577

Mario Roberto Dal Poz

#149003

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Mário Roberto Dal Poz is a Brazilian physician and researcher, who worked as coordinator of the "Health Workforce Information and Governance" program at the World Health Organization in Switzerland from 2002 to 2012. He holds the position of associate professor at the Social Medicine Institute of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. He is also currently editor-in-chief of the Human Resources for Health journal, and a member of the editorial board of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization and Revista Espaço para a Saude.

#3578

Katherine S. Squibb

#128243

Overall Influence

1949 - 2018 (69 years)

Katherine Sprague Squibb was an American toxicologist who specialized in metal toxicity. She was a faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and served as co-director of the University System of Maryland's graduate program in toxicology.

#3579

Ruth A. Kleinerman

#169637

Overall Influence

Ruth A. Kleinerman is an American epidemiologist specialized in retinoblastoma. Kleinerman worked at the National Cancer Institute from 1979 to 2019 where she served as a staff scientist and deputy chief of the Radiation Epidemiology Branch.

#3580

Feng Shi

#172309

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

#3581

George Seage

#160874

Overall Influence

1957 - 2021 (64 years)

George Richard Seage III was an American epidemiologist and a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the school's Program in the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases. Seage specialized in HIV/AIDS research with a focus on “the behavioural and biological aspects of adult and pediatric HIV transmission, natural history and treatment.” At the Boston University School of Public Health , Seage was an Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology, Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in the Epidemiology of Infectious Dise...

#3582

Jane Coad

#169847

Overall Influence

Jane Coad is a New Zealand public health nutrition researcher and professor in nutrition at Massey University. She is co-director of Massey's Vitamin D Research Centre which she and Pam von Hurst founded in 2010.

#3583

Gerardo J. Meléndez-Torres

#169129

Overall Influence

Gerardo J. "G.J." Meléndez-Torres is professor of Clinical and Social Epidemiology at the University of Exeter, England and Director of PenTAG . He is a former student leader at University of Pennsylvania, where he was a grant-recipient and graduate . He was selected as a Truman Scholar, in 2010 and also a Marshall Scholar in 2011 that served to pursue a MPhil in Evidence-Based Social Intervention at Oxford University, where he subsequently obtained a DPhil in Social Intervention.

#3584

Ann M. Hardy

#108788

Overall Influence

Ann Marie Hardy is an American epidemiologist and microbiologist who served as the human research protections officer at the National Institutes of Health Office of Extramural Programs. Education Ann Marie Hardy completed a master of science degree in microbiology and a doctor of public health in epidemiology in 1983 at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Her dissertation was titled Infections in renal transplant recipients receiving cyclosporine.

#3585

Miratul Muqit

#127913

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Miratul Muqit FRSE FMedSci is a British neurologist and a Programme Lead at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee. His research focuses on the study of the PINK1 gene, mutations in which are a major cause of Parkinson's disease.

#3586

Christiane Ayotte

#99070

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Christiane Ayotte, O.C., is a Canadian scientist and academic from Quebec. She is currently the director of the Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie Research Centre was formerly the President of the World Association of Anti‐Doping Scientists from 20162018.

#3587

Scott K. Dessain

Scott K. Dessain

#133635

Overall Influence

Scott K. Dessain is an American oncologist, research scientist, who is a professor at Lankenau Institute for Medical Research and an attending medical oncologist at Lankenau Medical Center, both in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. He also is co-founder and chief technology officer of Immunome, Inc., a biotechnology company in Philadelphia specializing in development of native human cancer antibodies targeted against cancer antigens. Dessain developed a technology that caused cells to glow, which had been licensed for use by others.

#3588

Gary Bennett

#68627

Overall Influence

Gary G. Bennett Jr. is the Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Global Health and Medicine at Duke University. In November 2022, he was appointed Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, effective February 2023.

#3589

James Douglas Miller

#133123

Overall Influence

1937 - 1995 (58 years)

James Douglas Miller FRSE was a Scottish neurosurgeon of international repute. The Douglas Miller Memorial Lecture is named in his honour. Life He was born in Glasgow on 20 July 1937. His father was an executive at Collins the publisher. He was educated at Glasgow Academy then studied medicine at the University of Glasgow graduating with an MB ChB. Meeting Bryan Jennett he was inspired to be a neurosurgeon.

#3590

Lim Kah Leong

#101563

Overall Influence

Lim Kah Leong, is a Singaporean neuroscientist and tenured full Professor and Vice Dean at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University , where he is also a President's Chair Professor in Translational Neuroscience. He is concurrently the Research Director for Biomedical and Life Sciences at NTU. He was previously Chair of the Department of Physiology at the National University of Singapore, Singapore and the deputy director for research at the National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore. Dr. Lim is known for his research in Parkinson's Disease. His research focuses ...

#3591

Papaarangi Reid

#152435

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Papaarangi Mary-Jane Reid is a New Zealand public health academic and, , is a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After medical degrees at the University of Auckland, Reid joined, rising to full professor. Notable students include Matire Harwood.

#3592

Fausto J Pinto

#171622

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Fausto J. Pinto is a Portuguese academic. He is Professor of Cardiology at Hospital de Santa Maria. Former dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon. Career From 2002 to 2004, Pinto served as president and founder of the European Association of Echocardiography. From 2008 to 2010, he was Chairman of the ESC's Congress Program Committee, followed by President from 2014 to 2016 and chair of the European Heart Agency from 2016 to 2018.

#3593

Tara C. Smith

#150617

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Tara C. Smith is an American epidemiologist and science communicator. She is a professor at the Kent State University College of Public Health who studies zoonotic infections. Smith was the first to identify strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus associated with livestock in the United States.

#3594

John McMichael

#173115

Overall Influence

1904 - 1993 (89 years)

Sir John McMichael FRSE LLD was a 20th-century Scottish cardiologist. He developed the Royal Post Graduate Medical School at Hammersmith. Life He was born on 25 July 1904 in Gatehouse of Fleet in Kirkcudbrightshire, the son of a butcher and farmer of a smallholding. He was educated at Girthon School by William Learmonth, father of James Learmonth who encouraged him to enter Kirkcudbright Academy where he became school dux. He then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MB ChB in 1927 and then became an Ettles Scholar and assistant to Sir Stanley Davidson.

#3595

Robert A. Newman

Robert A. Newman

#119681

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Robert A. Newman is an American pharmacologist specializing in molecular biology, drug development, and immunology. He is professor emeritus, professor of experimental therapeutics, founder and co-director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Development of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas.

#3596

Elizabeth Franz

#172232

Overall Influence

Elizabeth A. 'Liz' Franz is a New Zealand academic neuroscientist, as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Otago. Academic career After a 1988 MSc titled 'An examination of the spatial and temporal limitations in bimanual coordination.' at the Purdue University, further PhD, and post-docs at UC Berkeley, Franz moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.

#3597

Hamid Reza Rasekh

Hamid Reza Rasekh

#156202

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Hamid Reza Rasekh is an Iranian pharmacologist and toxicologist and Professor of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Management at Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. External links Hamid Reza Rasekh at Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

#3598

Rachel Cooper

#173484

Overall Influence

#3599

Ståle Petter Lyngstadaas

#140527

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ståle Petter Lyngstadaas is a Norwegian professor and researcher with a focus on biomaterials and bone regeneration. Since 2013, he is the Vice-Dean of Research at Faculty of Dentistry, Oslo University He is the discoverer of Lyngstadaas syndrome.

#3600

William Baumgartner

#173697

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

William Baumgartner is professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and executive director of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He is known for his work in neurological protection during cardiac surgery. He was president of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation for 1996–1997.

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