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List of the most influential people in Medical,

#3801

William Beltran

#181526

Overall Influence

William Anthony Beltran is a French–American ophthalmologist. He is a professor of ophthalmology in the Department of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine and director of the Division of Experimental Retinal Therapies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. In 2020, Beltran was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine for his research focus on inherited retinal degeneration.

#3802

Betty Ida Roots

#147826

Overall Influence

1927 - 2020 (93 years)

Betty Ida Roots was a British-born zoologist based at the University of Toronto in Canada. She was an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Career In 1927, Roots was born in South Croydon Surrey, England, in the UK. She completed a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology at the University of London's University College , a Diploma in Education at the Institution of Education . and later, a doctorate in comparative physiology at the University of London . Roots held a number of teaching and visiting scientist positions at a variety of institutions, including the Royal Free Hospital Scho...

#3803

Kenneth Arthur Myers

#176530

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Kenneth Arthur Myers FRACS FACS was an Australian surgeon specialising in phlebology. Early life and education Myers was born in Melbourne, Australia on 14 February 1935 to parents Robert and Edith Myers. His father was a printer and his mother a music teacher. After obtaining a scholarship to Scotch College, he matriculated, aged 16, as one of the youngest students ever at the school, skipping a year, and achieving the highest score in his year in mathematics. He then went on to Melbourne University and graduated in 1957, later gaining his surgical qualifications in 1962.

#3804

Brian Worthington

#180470

Overall Influence

1938 - 2007 (69 years)

Brian Worthington was the first radiologist to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and is acknowledged as a pioneer in clinical magnetic resonance imaging. He was born in Oldham, England and was educated at Hulme Grammar School, training at Guy's Hospital after graduating in physiology and medicine. After graduation his career developed rapidly, particularly in the field of MRI research and he was subsequently admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists.

#3805

Ruth Link-Gelles

#183405

Overall Influence

Ruth Link-Gelles is an American epidemiologist. She works for the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and serves as a Commander in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

#3806

Demetre Daskalakis

#179324

Overall Influence

Demetre C. Daskalakis is an American physician and gay health activist serving as director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention in the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention since 2020. In 2022, the administration of Joe Biden appointed him the White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator.

#3807

Stella Koutros

#98926

Overall Influence

Stella Koutros is an American cancer epidemiologist who researches the occupational exposures as risk factors for cancer. She is an investigator in the occupational and environmental epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute.

#3808

Mylin Torres

#180199

Overall Influence

Mylin Ann Torres is an American breast cancer radiation oncologist. Torres is the Louisa and Rand Glenn Family Chair in Breast Cancer Research and director of the Glenn Family Breast Center. Early life and education Torres was raised in Savannah, Georgia, US. After her best friend's mother died of cancer when she was in sixth grade, Torres was influenced to pursue a career in medicine. Following high school, Torres enrolled at Harvard University for her Bachelor's degree in biology. As an undergraduate student, Torres competed with the Harvard Crimson women's tennis team where she was voted Rookie of the Year in 1995.

#3809

Amelia Lake

#184477

Overall Influence

Amelia A. Lake is a British dietitian who is Professor of Biosciences at Teesside University. She works in public health, and is co-founder of the North East Obesogenic Environment Network . She is concerned about the impact of energy drinks on children's health.

#3810

Alexandra M. Schmidt

#141762

Overall Influence

Alexandra M. Schmidt is a Brazilian biostatistician and epidemiologist who works as an associate professor of biostatistics at McGill University in Canada. She is known for her research on spatiotemporal and multivariate statistics and their applications in environmental statistics.

#3811

Felicia Hill-Briggs

#183565

Overall Influence

Felicia Hill-Briggs was an American behavioral and social scientist. Early life and education Hill-Briggs was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of nine. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from American University and her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology from Pennsylvania State University. Following this, she completed her internship in Medical Consultation and Liaison and Clinical Neuropsychology at New York University Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Geropsychology and Geriatric Neuropsychology at...

#3812

Mervyn Huston

#182660

Overall Influence

1912 - 2001 (89 years)

Mervyn J. Huston was a Canadian pharmacologist and humorist. A longtime professor and academic dean at the University of Alberta's school of pharmacy, he was best known for his humor novel Gophers Don't Pay Taxes, which won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1982.

#3813

Emelda Okiro

#182870

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Emelda Aluoch Okiro is a Kenyan public health researcher who is lead of the Population Health Unit at the Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust program in Kenya. She looks to understand the determinants of health transitions and to evaluate access to health information. She is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.

#3814

Barry V. L. Potter

Barry V. L. Potter

#168202

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Barry Victor Lloyd Potter MAE FMedSci is a British chemist, who is Professor of Medicinal & Biological Chemistry at the University of Oxford, Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator and a Fellow of University College, Oxford.

#3815

Chang Ching-wen

#181864

Overall Influence

Chang Ching-wen is a Taiwanese scientist and public official. Chang earned a master's of science at National Taiwan University's Institute of Public Health and a doctorate from the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Cincinnati. Upon her return to Taiwan, Chang became a supervisor and director for the Taiwan Occupational Hygiene Association and Taiwan Society of Indoor Environmental Quality. She also held a professorship at NTU.

#3816

Jerome B. Posner

#185071

Overall Influence

#3817

Nicola Curtin

#137789

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Nicola Curtin is an English academic. She is Professor of Experimental Cancer Therapeutics at Newcastle University. She is best known for being part of the Newcastle University team that developed Rubraca, a PARP inhibitor used as an anti-cancer agent addressing BRCA mutation, and for donating her share of the royalties to charity.

#3818

Paul W. Sternberg

#185093

Overall Influence

#3819

Helen Whelton

#185096

Overall Influence

Helen Whelton, an Irish epidemiologist, and educator. She is HSE South South West Hospital Group's chief academic officer and head of the College of Medicine and Health at the University College Cork .

#3820

D. J. Nutt

#185131

Overall Influence

#3821

Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha

#148573

Overall Influence

Ndidiamaka Nneoma Amutah-Onukagha is an American researcher who is the Julia A. Okoro Professor of Black Maternal Health at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Her research considers women's health disparities in Black women. Amutah-Onukagha is the inaugural Tufts University Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Public Health. She was named the American Public Health Association Maternal and Child Health Section's Young Professional of the Year in 2019.

#3822

Stephen Nadeau

#175936

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Stephen E. Nadeau is an American behavioral neurologist, researcher and academician. He is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He is also the Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the Malcolm Randall Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

#3823

Shahinaz Gadalla

#183624

Overall Influence

Shahinaz Mohamed Aly Gadalla is a physician-scientist and cancer epidemiologist who researches cancer biomarkers and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. She is a senior investigator in the clinical genetics branch at the National Cancer Institute.

#3824

Lauren Gardner

#89917

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Lauren Marie Gardner is an American engineer who is an associate professor and co-director of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She created the Johns Hopkins University dashboard that is used to share information about the COVID-19 pandemic.

#3825

Naila Zaman Khan

#177033

Overall Influence

Naila Zaman Khan is a Bangladeshi neurologist. She was the founder head of the Department of Pediatric Neuroscience, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh Institute of Child Health in 1992, till 2018. She is the founder chairperson of the "Shishu Bikash Network", General Secretary of the "Bangladesh Protibondhi Foundation" , Secretary General of the Bangladesh Society for Child Neurology, Development and Disability and Chairperson of the Bangladesh Society of Pediatric Neuro Electro- Physiologists , and National Delegate of the Asia Oceania Child Neurology Association . From 2008 to 2018 she was...

#3826

Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez

#184974

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez is an American academic physiatrist and rehabilitative medicine physician. She chairs the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Long School of Medicine within the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and previously served as the medical director of the Brain Injury and Stroke Program at TIRR Memorial Hermann.

#3827

Athanase Bénétos

#185380

Overall Influence

#3828

Donald du Toit

#171173

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Donald du Toit, FCS., FRCS., is a South African specialist general surgeon, clinician and emeritus professor as well as chief of Anatomy and Histology and previous ad hominem professor of surgery at the University of Stellenbosch.

#3829

Feng Lin

#185483

Overall Influence

#3830

Kreesten Madsen

#185484

Overall Influence

Kreesten Meldgaard Madsen is a Danish epidemiologist and expert on infectious diseases who, as of 2003, worked at the Danish Epidemiology Science Centre at Aarhus University. He is known for leading two studies that found no link between either the MMR vaccine and autism or thimerosal and autism. The first of these studies pertained to MMR and was published in 2002; the second pertained to thimerosal and was published in 2003. Both of these studies received considerable media attention.

#3831

Françoise Roch-Ramel

#153663

Overall Influence

1931 - 2001 (70 years)

Françoise Roch-Ramel was a Swiss pharmacologist and a leading expert on the renal transport of organic anions and cations, especially uric acid. Life and work Born to Edwin Ramel and raised in Château-d'Œx, Switzerland, her major research focus was the renal excretion of drugs and other xenobiotics. She was a professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Lausanne, where she was employed in the early 1960s as an assistant of Professor George Peters.

#3832

Worta McCaskill-Stevens

#183411

Overall Influence

Worta J. McCaskill-Stevens was an American physician-scientist and medical oncologist specialized in cancer disparities research, management of comorbidities within clinical trials, and molecular research for cancer prevention interventions. She was chief of the community oncology and prevention trials research group at the National Cancer Institute.

#3833

Osmund Reynolds

Osmund Reynolds

#180456

Overall Influence

1933 - 2017 (84 years)

Edward Osmund Royle Reynolds, CBE, FRCP, FRCOG, FRCPCH, FMedSci, FRS , was a British paediatrician and Neonatologist who was most notable for the introduction of new techniques intended to improve the survival of newborns, especially those with respiratory failure, and for a series of papers regarding the value of techniques such as ultrasound imaging, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and near infrared spectroscopy in determining the development and response to injury of the infant brain after birth.

#3834

Niall Patrick Quinn

#185661

Overall Influence

#3835

Ann Marie Kimball

#167848

Overall Influence

Ann Marie Kimball is an American physician. She is known for being the pioneer of electronic disease surveillance for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics. She is currently a Professor Emerita in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington, a Consulting Fellow at the Chatham House Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs, and was a Strategic Consultant in Global Health at the Rockefeller Foundation. Kimball served as a technical and strategic lead for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation infectious disease surveillance strategy formation.

#3836

Louise Wain

#123340

Overall Influence

Louise V. Wain is a British genetic epidemiologist currently serving as the British Lung Foundation Chair in Respiratory Research at the University of Leicester. Her research considers idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wain studied the long-term impacts of COVID-19.

#3837

Sheila Skeaff

#184310

Overall Influence

Sheila A. Skeaff is a Canadian-born New Zealand nutritionist and full professor at the University of Otago. Her research focusses on food literacy, sustainable diets and iodine deficiency. Academic career Skeaff was born in 1961 and grew up in northern Ontario and graduated with an MSc in nutritional biochemistry from the University of Guelph in Canada in 1988. She and her husband Murray Skeaff moved to Dunedin to work at the University of Otago in mid-1989. She completed a PhD in human nutrition in 2004.

#3838

Michael Abramoff

#176381

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Michael David Abràmoff is an American neuroscientist, ophthalmologist, vitreoretinal surgeon, computer engineer, and entrepreneur. He is the Watzke Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa.

#3839

Xia Suisheng

#142577

Overall Influence

1924 - 2019 (95 years)

Xia Suisheng was a Chinese surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation. Biography Xia was born in April 1924 in Yuyao, Zhejiang, China. He attended high school in Shanghai, and studied at Tongji Medical College, which moved from Shanghai to Wuhan in the early 1950s. After graduation, he became a surgeon at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan.

#3840

Jaquelyne Hughes

#101903

Overall Influence

Jaquelyne Hughes FRACP is a Torres Strait Islander woman and senior research fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University. She also works as a nephrologist at the Royal Darwin Hospital.

#3841

Anita Kurmann

#186112

Overall Influence

1976 - 2015 (39 years)

Anita Agatha Kurmann was a Swiss endocrinologist and thyroid surgeon. Life Anita studied medicine in Basel and worked at the Inselspital in Bern, then moved to Boston to train in research at the Beth Israel Deaconess hospital, where she was a post-doctoral fellow. She worked with a multi-institution group based at Boston University that was the first to generate thyroid cell progenitors and thyroid follicular organoids from pluripotent stem cells in mice, and thyroid cell progenitors from induced PSCs in humans. This was achieved by establishing the signalling required to create a thyroid lineage, namely BMP4 and FGF2.

#3842

Ruth Lockhart

#143635

Overall Influence

Ruth L. Lockhart is an American women's health advocate, women's rights activist, AIDS educator, and feminist. She is a co-founder of Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Center, was its executive director in Bangor, Maine, from 1992 to 2015, and previously worked in health education and AIDS education for the City of Bangor and the University of Maine. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2012.

#3843

Joachim Son-Forget

#136526

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Joachim Jean-Marie Forget , known as Joachim Son-Forget is a South Korean-born French politician. Holding a doctorate in neuroscience, he also works part-time as a radiologist in Switzerland. He has held Kosovar citizenship since 2018.

#3844

Margaret McCarthy

#97441

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Margaret M. "Peg" McCarthy is an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist. She is the James & Carolyn Frenkil Endowed Dean's Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where she is also Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology. She is known for her research on the neuroscience of sex differences and their underlying mechanisms. In 2019, she received the Gill Transformative Investigator Award from the Gill Center for Biomolecular Science at Indiana University.

#3845

Mary-Louise Penrith

#170735

Overall Influence

#3846

Ian Duncan

#180831

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Dr Ian Duncan is a British gynaecological oncologist. Duncan studied medicine at the University of St Andrews and undertook trained in obstetrics and gynaecology at Dundee from 1969 to 1978, broken by period at Duke University from 1972 to 1974, specializing in gynaecological oncology.

#3847

Alison Rich

#183782

Overall Influence

Alison Mary Rich is a New Zealand dentistry academic. As of September 2018 she is a full professor and Head of the Department of Oral Diagnostic & Surgical Sciences at the University of Otago. Academic career After a 1995 PhD titled Histology, histometry and connective tissue influences associated with experimental oral mucosal carcinogenesis at the University of Melbourne, she moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor. In 2014, Rich was appointed acting dean of Otago University Faculty of Dentistry.

#3848

Laurie Garrett

#186563

Overall Influence

#3849

Jian-Min Yuan

#186588

Overall Influence

Jian-Min Yuan is an epidemiologist and cancer researcher. Yuan earned a medical degree and completed a master's degree in public health specializing in epidemiology at Shanghai Medical University in 1983 and 1986, respectively, then served as a research fellow at the Shanghai Cancer Institute and also taught as an assistant professor there before pursuing doctoral studies in epidemiology at the University of Southern California, which he completed in 1996. Yuan was a postdoctoral researcher at the Keck School of Medicine until 1999. He remained at USC in an assistant professorship until 2005, when he joined the University of Minnesota faculty as an associate professor.

#3850

Tara N. Palmore

#97139

Overall Influence

Tara N. Palmore is an American physician-scientist and epidemiologist specializing in patient safety through prevention of hospital-acquired infections. As of 2021 she was the hospital epidemiologist at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

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