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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

Fatima Jinnah

1893 - 1967 (74 years)

Fatima Jinnah was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman. She was the younger sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder and the first governor-general of Pakistan. She was the Leader of the Opposition of Pakistan from 1960 until her death in 1967.

#3912

Antoni Cieszyński

Antoni Cieszyński

1882 - 1941 (59 years)

Antoni Cieszyński was a Polish physician, dentist and surgeon. Cieszyński was a professor and head of the Institute of Stomatology at Lviv University. He became the editor and publisher of Polska Dentystyka in 1930; the journal was renamed Polska Stomatologia and Słowiańska Stomatologia . Among his contributions to dentistry are the rules of isometry that allow for the bisecting angle to accurately reproduce dimensions in x-radiology, and extraoral anæsthetising techniques.

#3913

Franz von Rinecker

Franz von Rinecker

1811 - 1883 (72 years)

Franz von Rinecker was a German pharmacologist and physician, born in Schesslitz near Bamberg. He studied medicine at Munich and Würzburg, earning his medical degree in 1834. In 1838 he became professor of pharmacology at the University of Würzburg. Some of his more prominent students and assistants were Emil Kraepelin, Franz von Leydig, Ernst Haeckel, Richard Geigel, Hermann Emminghaus and Carl Gerhardt, who later succeeded Rinecker at the department of pediatrics. In addition, he was responsible for the appointment of Albert von Kölliker and Rudolf Virchow to the medical faculty.

#3914

Alfred Newton Richards

Alfred Newton Richards

1876 - 1966 (90 years)

Alfred Newton Richards was an American pharmacologist. Richards, along with Wearn, is credited with the method of renal micropuncture to study the functioning of kidneys in 1924. Career Richards was born in Stamford, New York the son of Rev. Leonard E. Richards and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Burbank. He was educated at the Stamford Seminary and Union Free School. He then studied at Yale University.

#3915

George T. Pack

1898 - 1969 (71 years)

George T. Pack was an American surgeon who specialized in the treatment of patients with cancer. Biography Pack was born on a farm in Antrim, Ohio. When he gave a lecture as a graduate student at Ohio State University, Dr. Winternitz of Yale University invited him to continue lecturing at the Yale Department of Pathology only to learn after his arrival that he was not even a medical student. He enrolled at Yale and graduated with a medical degree in 1922. In 1925 he became Professor of Pathology at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. In 1926 he went to New York to start as an intern at Memorial Cancer Center.

#3916

Justus Christian Loder

Justus Christian Loder

1753 - 1832 (79 years)

Justus Ferdinand Christian Loder was a German anatomist and surgeon who was a native of Riga. Biography In 1777 Loder earned his medical doctorate at the University of Göttingen, and the following year was appointed professor of surgery and anatomy at the University of Jena, where he practiced medicine for the next 25 years. At Jena he was responsible for the establishment of an anatomical theatre and an Accouchierhaus . In 1780-81, at the expense of the Duke of Weimar, he took a scientific journey to France, England and Holland, a trip in which he made the acquaintance of several well-known ...

#3917

Fedor Krause

1857 - 1937 (80 years)

Fedor Krause was a German neurosurgeon who was native of Friedland . Biography He originally studied music at the Conservatoire in Berlin, and later switched to medicine, earning his doctorate at Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1883 he became a medical assistant to Richard von Volkmann at the surgical university clinic at Halle. Afterwards, he was a pathologist at the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt am Main , a surgeon at the city hospital at Hamburg-Altona , and later head of the surgical department at Augusta Hospital in Berlin. In 1901 he became an associate professor at the University of Berlin.

#3918

Nathan Cooley Keep

1800 - 1875 (75 years)

Nathan Cooley Keep was a pioneer in the field of dentistry, and the founding Dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Biography Keep was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, on December 23, 1800. Adept with his hands, he became interested in dentistry following an apprenticeship with a local jeweler. In 1821, he moved to Boston and graduated from Harvard Medical School with an M.D. in 1827. He practiced dentistry for 40 years, was hailed for his proficiency, and in 1843 was awarded an honorary D.D.S. by the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. Keep invented and manufactured many dental tools and is credited with being one of the first to manufacture porcelain teeth.

#3919

Gabriel Anton

1858 - 1933 (75 years)

Gabriel Anton was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist. He is primarily remembered for his studies of psychiatric conditions arising from damage to the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia. Academic career He was a native of Saaz, Bohemia, and in 1882 received his medical doctorate at Prague. In 1887 he traveled to Vienna in order to work with Theodor Meynert , who was to become an important influence to Anton's medical career. In 1891 he moved to Innsbruck, where he served as an associate professor of psychiatry and director of the university clinic. Later , he relocated to the Universi...

#3920

Karl-Axel Ekbom

1907 - 1977 (70 years)

Karl-Axel Ekbom was a Swedish neurologist. He is mostly known for his detailed description of restless legs syndrome . Ekbom started his medical studies in Stockholm in 1928 and was licensed in 1934. He received the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1945. After working at the Karolinska Institute from 1945 to 1958, he became Professor of Neurology at the University of Uppsala where he worked until 1974.

#3921

Adam Gruca

1893 - 1983 (90 years)

Adam Gruca was a famous Polish orthopaedist, inventor, and surgeon. He is considered to be the founder of modern orthopedic surgery in Poland. Gruca also invented various orthopaedic instruments and appliances.

#3922

Jean Lhermitte

1877 - 1959 (82 years)

Jacques Jean Lhermitte was a French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist. Early life and education Lhermitte was born in Mont-Saint-Père, Aisne, son of Léon Augustin Lhermitte, a French realist painter. Following his early education at Saint-Etienne, he studied in Paris and graduated in medicine in 1907. He specialised in neurology and became Chef-de-clinique for nervous diseases in 1908, Chef de laboratoire in 1910, and professeur agrégé for psychiatry 1922.

#3923

Stewart Duke-Elder

1898 - 1978 (80 years)

Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder was a Scottish ophthalmologist, a dominant force in his field for more than a quarter of a century. Life Duke-Elder was born in the manse in Tealing near Dundee. His father, Rev Neil Stewart Elder, was the village minister of the Free Church of Scotland. His mother was Isabelle Duke, daughter of Rev John Duke of the Free Church in Campsie, Stirlingshire.

#3924

Franz König

1832 - 1910 (78 years)

Franz König was a German surgeon. The son of a physician, he was born in Rotenburg an der Fulda. In 1855 he received his doctorate from the University of Marburg, and was later district wound surgeon in Hanau. Afterwards he was a professor of surgery at the universities of Rostock and Göttingen , and eventually at the Charité-Berlin, where in 1895 he succeeded Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben. In 1904 he was succeeded at the Charité by Otto Hildebrand.

#3925

Theodor Meynert

Theodor Meynert

1833 - 1892 (59 years)

Theodor Hermann Meynert was a German-Austrian psychiatrist, neuropathologist, and anatomist born in Dresden. Meynert believed that disturbances in brain development could be a predisposition for psychiatric illness and that certain psychoses are reversible.

#3926

Thomas J. Walley

#3927

G.H. Monrad-Krohn

1884 - 1964 (80 years)

Georg Herman Monrad-Krohn , born in Bergen, Norway, is known for his work on the development of neurology early in the 20th century. He studied at the National Hospital, Queens Square in London, and often visited Paris, France to work in the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital facilities. In 1917 he returned to Norway, and began studies at the Neurological University Clinic of Oslo , where he was appointed a Professor in 1922. In 1927 he became Professor of Neurology at the University of Oslo, and later Emeritus Professor of Neurology.. He retired from this professorial chair at the age of 70. His son, the computer engineer and entrepreneur Lars Monrad-Krohn was born in 1933.

#3928

Stanley J. Goldsmith

#3929

Walter Mercer

1890 - 1971 (81 years)

Sir Walter Mercer KBE FRSE FRCSEd FRCPE LLD was a Scottish orthopaedic surgeon. He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1951 to 1956. He was affectionately known as 'Wattie.' His collection of anatomical specimens was donated to Surgeon's Hall in Edinburgh, and is now known as the Walter Mercer Collection.

#3930

Vida Latham

1866 - 1958 (92 years)

Vida Annette Latham was a British-American dentist, physician, microscopist, and researcher, known for her work in publishing and her research on oral tumors, surgery, and anatomy. Early life and education Vida Latham was born in Lancashire in 1866 to a physician father. Her early education took place in Cambridge and Manchester. She earned her master's degree from the University of London in 1889; she published papers on tooth anatomy and pain in 1888 while working at a London dentist's office. She then moved to the United States because she could not practice in the UK with an American dentistry degree.

#3931

Anita K. Bahn

1920 - 1980 (60 years)

Anita Kaplan Bahn was an American epidemiologist, biostatistician, and cancer researcher. Education and career Bahn was originally from New York City. She left high school at the age of 15, and earned a bachelor's degree in biology four years later from Hunter College, together with a certification allowing her to teach high school biology. She would also go on to study "physics at New York City College; botany and bacteriology at Cornell University; mathematics and statistics at American University and at George Washington University", but without completing those programs to a graduate degr...

#3932

Arthur Schüller

1874 - 1957 (83 years)

Arthur Schüller was an Austrian medical doctor who served as professor at Vienna University and was the founder of the discipline of neuroradiology. He is credited with coining the term "Neuro-Röntgenologie" and he contributed particularly to three neurosurgical procedures; antero-cordotomy, cisternal hydrocephalic drainage and the transsphenoidal approach to pituitary tumours, and is associated with three bone diseases; the Hand–Schüller–Christian disease, osteoporosis circumscripta and cephalohaematoma deformans.

#3933

Gustav Biedermann Günther

Gustav Biedermann Günther

1801 - 1866 (65 years)

Gustav Biedermann Günther was a German surgeon and orthopedist. From 1818 to 1824, he studied medicine and surgery at the University of Leipzig, obtaining his doctorate with the thesis "Analecta ad anatomiam fungi medullari". While still a student, he embarked on a scientific journey with ornithologist Ludwig Thienemann to Norway and Iceland. In 1825 he began work as an assistant to Johann Karl Georg Fricke in the surgical department at the general hospital in Hamburg. In 1829 he settled as a general practitioner in Hamburg, where in 1831 he founded an orthopedic institute.

#3934

Alexander Ellinger

1870 - 1923 (53 years)

Alexander Ellinger was a German chemist and pharmacologist. From 1887 he studied chemistry at the University of Berlin under August Wilhelm von Hofmann and at the University of Bonn as a pupil of August Kekulé. Afterwards, he studied medicine at the University of Munich, followed by work as an assistant in the institute of pharmacology at the University of Strasbourg. In 1897 he became an assistant to Max Jaffé in the laboratory of medicinal chemistry and experimental pharmacology at the University of Königsberg. In 1914 he was appointed professor of pharmacology at the newly established Univ...

#3935

Andrew Fyfe

1792 - 1861 (69 years)

Professor Andrew Fyfe FRSE FRCSE PRSSA PRMS was a Scottish surgeon and chemist. Following early studies on Fox Talbot's newly created photographic techniques he was one of the first to work out the theory behind positive rather than negative prints. He had an amateur interest in photography but appears not to have pursued his own theories and limited his experiments to ferns lying on chemical papers.

#3936

V. Ishwaraiah

1898 - 1983 (85 years)

V. Ishwaraiah MBBS, MRCP, FRFPS was an eminent professor of Pharmacology in India. He received his M.R.C.P with Pharmacology as special subject and F.R.F.P.S . He worked as lecturer in Pharmacology, Andhra Medical College to succeed Dr. B. B. Dikshit . He was promoted as Professor in 1943. He was transferred to Madras as Professor of Pharmacology for both Madras Medical College and Stanley Medical College.

#3937

Anton Drasche

1826 - 1904 (78 years)

Anton Drasche was an Austrian internist and epidemiologist. Biography Drasche studied medicine in Prague, Vienna and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1853. In Vienna, his instructors included Johann Ritter von Oppolzer, Carl von Rokitansky and Joseph Škoda. In 1858 he was habilitated for special pathology and therapy. and in 1872 was appointed physician-in-chief at the . On a recommendation from German hygienist Max Pettenkofer, he became an associate professor of epidemiology in 1874.

#3938

Margaret Arnstein

1904 - 1972 (68 years)

Margaret G. Arnstein was an American health expert who focused her efforts in nursing and public health. Throughout her life Arnstein worked for the United States public health sector and several American colleges, eventually becoming dean of the Yale School of Nursing in 1967. Arnstein also published multiple academic papers discussing nursing practices within the U.S health system of the time. Arnstein also participated in Congress discussions in relation to provisions given to the health sector by the state through the Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill of 1957. In her later career Mar...

#3939

Johnson Symington

Johnson Symington

1851 - 1924 (73 years)

Johnson Symington FRS FRSE FZS LLD was a British anatomist and zoologist. He was President of the Ulster Medical Society for 1896/7. He served as President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1904 to 1906. He is noted for his comparative studies of the brain of modern man and prehistoric man, and of man and other primates. From 1923 onwards Queen's University Belfast award a Symington Prize every year to junior anatomists in his honour.

#3940

Jurriaan ten Doesschate

1912 - 1977 (65 years)

Jurriaan ten Doesschate was a Dutch ophthalmologist and medical scientist, who specialized in physiological optics. Biography The son of ophthalmologist and art historian Gezienus ten Doesschate and of linguist Amelia Hermina Henrietta Kortebosch, he attended the Municipal Gymnasium in Utrecht before studying medicine in the same city .

#3941

Norman Purvis Walker

Norman Purvis Walker

1862 - 1942 (80 years)

Sir Norman Purvis Walker FRCPE was a Scottish dermatologist, and physician-in-charge of the Skin Department at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He was also one of the first persons in Britain to benefit from the discovery of insulin as a treatment for diabetes.

#3942

August Knoblauch

1863 - 1919 (56 years)

August Knoblauch was a German neurologist. He was a nephew of chemist August Kekulé. He studied medicine and sciences at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, Strasbourg and Heidelberg. In 1888 he received his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg, where he studied under neurologist Wilhelm Heinrich Erb. In 1898 he was named head of the city infirmary in Frankfurt, then in 1914 was named director of the neurological clinic at the University of Frankfurt am Main.

#3943

Bernard G. Amend

1821 - 1911 (90 years)

Bernard G. Amend was a German-born pharmacist. He ran an important pharmacy and scientific supply business in New York, NY which was sold to Fisher Scientific in 1940. He is also known for contributing to the founding of the American Chemical Society and for his mineralogy collection.

#3944

Christopher Wren

#3945

Édouard Jeanselme

Édouard Jeanselme

1858 - 1935 (77 years)

Antoine Édouard Jeanselme was a French dermatologist, known for his research of syphilis and leprosy. He was the author of numerous works with history of medicine themes . In 1883 he began work as a hospital intern, receiving his medical doctorate in 1888. In 1898–1900 he conducted research of leprosy in French Indo-China, during which time, he also conducted studies of beriberi, framboesia, syphilis and variola. In 1901 he became an associate professor, and in 1919 attained the chair of chair of dermatology and syphilology at the faculty of medicine in Paris.

#3946

Rudi Cormane

1925 - 1987 (62 years)

Rudi Harold Cormane was a Dutch dermatologist who pioneered research in immunofluorescence studies of the skin. During the Second World War he was interned in a Japanese camp where he received an education from other prisoners. After the war he gained entry to the University of Leiden in the Netherlands to study medicine, but it was interrupted in 1947 when an epidemic of polio caused paralysis of his legs.

#3947

Han Qing-quan

1884 - 1921 (37 years)

Han Qingquan was a Chinese doctor, educator and pioneer of modern medical service and public health in China. Biography Han was born in Cixi City, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province in Qing Dynasty. His courtesy name was Shi-hong . From 1899 to 1902, Han studied in Hangzhou, at Hangzhou Yang-Zheng School and later at the Middle School of Hangzhou Prefecture .

#3948

Simon Holdin

1896 - 1975 (79 years)

Simon A. Holdin was Russian Empire-born clinician-oncologist . He was graduated in 1919 from Odessa National Medical University as a Doctor of Medicine. From 1923 to 1926 he worked as Lecturer at the Odessa Anatomical Pathology Institute and conducted experimental studies on chemical factors of carcinogenesis.

#3949

Love Gantt

1875 - 1935 (60 years)

Love Rosa Hirschmann Gantt , was an American physician based in South Carolina. Early life and education Love Rosa Hirschmann was born in Camden, South Carolina, the daughter of Solomon Hirschmann and Lena Nachman Hirschmann. Her family was Jewish; her father was an immigrant from central Europe.

#3950

Jørgen Pedersen

1914 - 1978 (64 years)

Jørgen Pedersen was an Epidemiologist. He is known for his hypothesis concerning the correlation of hyperglycemia during pregnancy and disease in later life. Life and work In 1952 he formulated the hypothesis that hyperglycemia in pregnant women might lead to hyperglycemia in their fetuses, causing complications in infancy and later life.

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