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#3901

Roni Rosenfeld

#103677

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Roni Rosenfeld is an Israeli-American computer scientist and computational epidemiologist, currently serving as the head of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an international expert in machine learning, infectious disease forecasting, statistical language modeling and artificial intelligence.

#3902

John Secrist

#191297

Overall Influence

John A. Secrist III is an American chemist, whose work invented Clofarabine, currently at Southern Research and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#3903

Ward Cates

#191741

Overall Influence

1942 - 2016 (74 years)

Willard Cates Jr. was an American epidemiologist and public health advocate known for his work on HIV/AIDS and women's health. In 1974, he began working at the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , where he researched the epidemiology of abortion. He served as director of the CDC's Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases from 1982 to 1992. In 1994, he began working at FHI 360, where he became president of the Institute for Family Health in 1998. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine and served as president of both the Society for Epidemiolo...

#3904

Virginia Caine

#189323

Overall Influence

Virginia A. Caine is an American physician who is the director and chief medical officer of the Marion County Public Health Department in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is a specialist in infectious diseases and is nationally recognized for her work with AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine for the Infectious Disease Division of the Indiana University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Public Health.

#3905

Sarah T. Roberts

#191858

Overall Influence

Sarah T. Roberts is an American epidemiologist. She is a research public health analyst specializing in “the biological, behavioral, social and structural factors that increase the risk of HIV/STI for women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the role of gender inequality, male engagement, and intimate partner violence, and in the design of interventions to maximize uptake of and adherence to biomedical HIV prevention strategies in women.“

#3906

Robert E. Marc

#99623

Overall Influence

Robert E. Marc is an American ophthalmologist, currently Distinguished Professor, and previously Calvin & JeNeal Hatch Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology and Mary H. Boesche Professor at University of Utah and previously the Robert Greer of Neural Sciences at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Neuroscience and Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.

#3907

Mohsen Naghavi

#192176

Overall Influence

Mohsen Naghavi is an Iranian-American researcher and Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington. He is one of the top highly cited researchers according to webometrics.

#3908

Richard Barohn

#192199

Overall Influence

Richard J. Barohn is an American neurologist and the executive vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Missouri. He formerly served as the university distinguished professor and Gertrude & Dewey Ziegler Professor at University of Kansas. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.

#3909

Paolo G. Casali

#192418

Overall Influence

Paolo Giovanni Casali is an Italian oncologist who served as chair of the European Society for Medical Oncology public policy committee, and is head of the Adult Mesenchymal Tumour Medical Oncology Unit at Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan.

#3910

Jack T Landrigan

#192428

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#3911

T.R. Johns

1924 - 1988 (64 years)

Thomas Richard Johns II, MD was an American neurologist, a subspecialist in neuromuscular disease, and a clinical researcher on myasthenia gravis based at the University of Virginia. Johns founded the Department of Neurology in 1963 and was its first chairman. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.

#3912

Grace Arabell Goldsmith

Grace Arabell Goldsmith

1904 - 1975 (71 years)

Grace Arabell Goldsmith was a U.S. physician best known for her research on nutritional deficiency diseases, B-complex vitamins, and the vitamin enrichment of foods. She identified the cause of the disease pellagra.

#3913

Filipp Ovsyannikov

Filipp Ovsyannikov

1827 - 1906 (79 years)

Filipp Vasilievich Ovsyannikov was the first Russian histologist and the founder of sturgeon breeding. Ovsyannikov graduated from the University of Dorpat in 1853. He worked in Claude Bernard's laboratory in 1860 and in Carl Ludwig's laboratory in 1869. He held the chair in physiology at the University of Kazan from 1858 to 1862 and the chair in anatomy at the University of Saint Petersburg from 1864 to 1886. In 1864, he established the Physiological Laboratory for the Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Ovsyannikov's laboratory was used for research by such young physiologists as Elias von Cyon ...

#3914

Hermann Zingerle

Hermann Zingerle

1870 - 1935 (65 years)

Hermann Zingerle was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist born in Trento. In 1894 he earned his medical degree from the University of Innsbruck, becoming an assistant at the University of Graz during the following year. In 1899 he received his habilitation for psychiatry and neuropathology, and from 1909 to 1926 was an associate professor at Graz.

#3915

Henry Piffard

1842 - 1910 (68 years)

Henry Granger Piffard was author of the first systematic treatise on dermatology in America. He is heralded as one of the founders of dermatology in the U.S., having founded the Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases, which later became JAMA Dermatology. He invented the dermal curette, was the first to use x-ray to treat skin diseases and was a pioneer of flash photography in medicine.

#3916

Richard L. Gamelli

#3917

Harvey J. Howard

1880 - 1956 (76 years)

Harvey James Howard was an American ophthalmologist. He was notable for:Serving as head of the Ophthalmology Department at the University Medical School, Canton Christian College in China between 1910 and 1915.Inventing the Howard-Dolman apparatus for measuring the accuracy of perception of distance while serving as a captain in the US Army during World War I.Serving as head of the Department of Ophthalmology at Peking Union Medical College between 1917 and 1927.Serving as ophthalmologist to Pu Yi, the boy emperor in the Forbidden City, between 1921 and 1925.Being kidnapped, with his son, by ...

#3918

Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther

Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther

1812 - 1871 (59 years)

Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther was a German pathologist and ophthalmologist who was a native of Offenbach am Main. From 1848–1867, he was an associate professor of general pathology and therapy at the University of Giessen, where, from 1867 to 1871, he served as the first full professor of pathological anatomy and therapy. After his death in 1871, his position at Giessen was filled by Theodor Langhans .

#3919

Berta Ottenstein

1891 - 1956 (65 years)

Berta Ottenstein was a German dermatologist who was the first woman to obtain her habilitation at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and the first woman in Germany to habilitate in dermatology. Life Ottenstein, the youngest of six children born into a Nuremberg merchant family, studied at the University of Erlangen, where she received her doctorate in chemistry in 1914. After a position at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem , she moved to the University of Freiburg in 1928, where she received an assistant post. As early as 1930, her superior, hospital director ...

#3920

James G. Marks

#3921

Vladimir Barykin

1879 - 1939 (60 years)

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Barykin was a Russian microbiologist and epidemiologist. Biography Vladimir Aleksandrovich Barykin was born on 22 November 1879 in Oryol Governorate. He graduated from the Kazan Imperial University in 1900.

#3922

Georg Schaltenbrand

1897 - 1979 (82 years)

Georges Schaltenbrand was a German neurologist known for his work on the organization and diagnostics of the motor system, to the physiology and pathology of the cerebrospinal fluid, and to multiple sclerosis. He coauthored an influential textbook and atlas on stereotaxy and he also published some unethical experiments performed in Nazi Germany.

#3923

Per-olof J. Hasselgren

#3924

Flora E. Van Leeuwen

#3925

David Lees

1881 - 1934 (53 years)

David Lees was a Scottish expert in public health and author of the authoritative work Diagnosis and Treatment of Venereal Disease. Life He was born in 1881, the son of Agnes Drennan and her husband, Robert Lees a vet from Lagg] in Ayrshire. He is thought to have been a cousin to Alexander Murray Drennan. He was educated at Ayr Academy. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MB ChB around 1902. He then undertook a Diploma in Public Health at postgraduate level. On completion he began lecturing in venereal disease at the University. He also advised on venereal...

#3926

Arne Melander

#3927

Lawrence Charles Parish

#3928

Walter Carr

1862 - 1942 (80 years)

John Walter Carr was an English physician and surgeon. Carr was the son of John Carr of London. He was educated at University College School and trained as a doctor at University College Hospital, graduating Bachelor of Surgery and Doctor of Medicine . He later became consulting physician to the Royal Free Hospital and the Victoria Hospital for Children and lecturer in medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women.

#3929

Holger Haxthausen

1892 - 1959 (67 years)

Holger Haxthausen was professor of dermatology at the University of Copenhagen. He took up the position in 1931 in succession to Carl Rasch.

#3930

E. Marilyn Schaeffer

#3931

Alan John Flisher

#3932

Ilo E. Leppik

#3933

Beatrice Edna Tucker

1898 - 1984 (86 years)

Beatrice Edna Tucker was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. Tucker was the medical director of the Chicago Maternity Center for over forty years, providing access to home births for poor people in Chicago. She also worked as an advocate for equitable access to reproductive healthcare, lobbying for legalized abortion and access to birth control.

#3934

Alfred Hardy

1811 - 1893 (82 years)

Alfred Louis Philippe Hardy was a French dermatologist. In 1836 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, where in 1839 he became chef de clinique under Pierre Fouquier at the Hôpital de la Charité. In 1847 he obtained his agrégation at the faculty of medicine in Paris, and four years later, succeeded Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol as chef de service at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. For several years he held classes in dermatology at the hospital. In 1867 he succeeded Jules Béhier as chair of internal pathology at the university, and in 1876 attained the chair of clinical medicine at Hôpital Necke...

#3935

Pascal James Imperato

#3936

T. Jacob John

#3937

Petrus Adrianus Fre Doevendans

#3938

Károly Schaffer

Károly Schaffer

1864 - 1939 (75 years)

Károly Schaffer was a Hungarian anatomist and neurologist. He was born in Vienna. The axon projection from CA3 to CA1 neurons in hippocampus, Schaffer collateral, is named after him. He was involved in the early studies of Tay–Sachs disease.

#3939

Anthony J. Raimondi

#3940

Alfred Jefferis Turner

Alfred Jefferis Turner

1861 - 1947 (86 years)

Alfred Jefferis Turner was a pediatrician and amateur entomologist. He was the son of missionary Frederick Storrs-Turner. He introduced the use of diphtheria antitoxin to Australia in 1895. He resided in Dauphin Terrace, Highgate Hill, Brisbane, and was known by the nickname "Gentle Annie".

#3941

Norman Dott

1897 - 1973 (76 years)

Norman McOmish Dott, CBE FRCSE FRSE FRCSC was a Scottish neurosurgeon. He was the first holder of the Chair of Neurological Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. Life Norman Dott was born in Edinburgh on 26 August 1897, the third of the five children of Rebecca Morton and Peter McOmish Dott , a picture dealer based at 127 George Street in Edinburgh's New Town. He was educated at George Heriot's School and originally intended a career in engineering. However a serious motorcycle accident on Lothian Road, hospitalised him and left him with a permanent leg injury . The long spell in hospital re-inspired Dott and he changed his ambition to focus upon medicine rather than engineering.

#3942

Carl Schiøtz

1877 - 1938 (61 years)

Carl Schiøtz was a Norwegian physician and professor of hygiene and bacteriology at the University of Oslo. Biography He was born in Hamar, Norway. His parents were Jonas Schanche Kielland Schiøtz and his wife Hanna Minda Constance Øvergaard. His brother was military officer Johannes Henrik Schiøtz . In 1906, he was married to Borghild Hannestad . After graduating in 1896 from Hamar Cathedral School, he became a cand.med. in 1904 at the University of Kristiana From 1907 to 1914 he worked at Nes in Ringsaker. He moved to Kristiania to work at the Rikshospitalet as a reserve doctor, university fellow and health inspector.

#3943

Eric Lenneberg

1921 - 1975 (54 years)

Eric Heinz Lenneberg was a linguist and neurologist who pioneered ideas on language acquisition and cognitive psychology, particularly in terms of the concept of innateness. Life and career He was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. Ethnically Jewish, he left Nazi Germany because of rising Nazi persecution. He initially fled to Brazil with his family and then to the United States where he attended the University of Chicago and Harvard University. A professor of psychology and neurobiology, he taught at the Harvard Medical School, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Cornell University and Med...

#3944

William Ogilvy Kermack

1898 - 1970 (72 years)

William Ogilvy Kermack FRS FRSE FRIC was a Scottish biochemist. He made mathematical studies of epidemic spread and established links between environmental factors and specified diseases. He is noteworthy for being blind for the majority of his academic career. Together with Anderson Gray McKendrick he created the Kermack-McKendrick theory of infectious diseases.

#3945

Henry Kaplan

1918 - 1984 (66 years)

Henry Seymour Kaplan was an American radiologist who pioneered in radiation therapy and radiobiology. Career Kaplan earned his degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago, after which he trained at the University of Minnesota, Yale University and the National Cancer Institute. He once said he became interested in oncology after his father died of lung cancer, the same disease which killed Dr. Kaplan, a non-smoker.

#3946

Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.

Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.

1915 - 1974 (59 years)

Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. was an American pharmacologist and biochemist born in Burlingame, Kansas. Sutherland won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1971 "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones", especially epinephrine, via second messengers, namely cyclic adenosine monophosphate, or cyclic AMP.

#3947

Cornelius P. Rhoads

Cornelius P. Rhoads

1898 - 1959 (61 years)

Cornelius Packard "Dusty" Rhoads was an American pathologist, oncologist, and hospital administrator who was involved in a racist scandal and subsequent whitewashing in the 1930s. Beginning in 1940, he served as director of Memorial Hospital for Cancer Research in New York, from 1945 was the first director of Sloan-Kettering Institute, and the first director of the combined Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center. For his contributions to cancer research, Rhoads was featured on the cover of the June 27, 1949 issue of Time magazine under the title "Cancer Fighter".

#3948

Abraham Lilienfeld

1920 - 1984 (64 years)

Abraham Morris Lilienfeld was an American epidemiologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He is known for his work in expanding epidemiology to focus on chronic diseases as well as infectious ones.

#3949

André Barbeau

1931 - 1986 (55 years)

André Barbeau, was a French Canadian neurologist. He was known for his research into Parkinson's disease and Friedreich's ataxia and taurine research. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Collège Stanislas and his medical degree from the Université de Montréal.

#3950

Isaac Schour

1900 - 1964 (64 years)

Isaac Schour was a dental scholar, educator, researcher, and administrator. He is best known for his tooth development chart. By studying the histolotgic sections of the teeth of animals, he inspired a new discipline: the histo-physiology of teeth and surrounding structures.

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