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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

Erhard Riecke

1869 - 1939 (70 years)

Rudolf Erhard Riecke was a German dermatologist and venereologist. He studied medicine at the universities of Munich and Halle, receiving his doctorate in 1895. In 1902 he obtained his habilitation for dermatology at the University of Leipzig, and in 1908 became an associate professor. From 1914 onward, he was a professor of dermatology at the University of Göttingen, where in 1932 he was named academic rector. In 1917 he was appointed director of the new university policlinic for skin and venereal diseases.

#3912

Ragnvald Ingebrigtsen

Ragnvald Ingebrigtsen

1882 - 1975 (93 years)

Ragnvald Ingebrigtsen was a Norwegian physician who is regarded a pioneer in the development of surgery in Norway. He was born in Hammerfest, and was married to actress Gerd Egede-Nissen from 1922 to 1940, and to the sister of his first wife, Gøril Havrevold, from 1962. He graduated as cand.med. in 1907, and worked as a physician in Stavanger from 1908 to 1911. He then worked two years at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City, where he studied neurosurgery, and further studied bacteriology and histology in Paris. He was appointed professor in surgery at the University of Oslo from 1928. ...

#3913

Edwin Bramwell

1873 - 1952 (79 years)

Edwin Bramwell FRSE FRCPE was a Scottish neurologist. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1933 to 1935. Life He was born in North Shields on 11 January 1873 the son of Martha and Sir Byrom Bramwell. He was educated at Cheltenham College. He then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MB ChB in 1896.

#3914

Gil Yosipovitch

#3915

Sheldon H. Preskorn

#3916

Hermann Löhlein

Hermann Löhlein

1847 - 1910 (63 years)

Christian Adolf Hermann Löhlein was a German obstetrician and gynecologist. In 1870, he obtained his medical doctorate following studies at the universities of Jena and Berlin. Afterwards he spent several years at Berlin as an assistant in the clinic of Eduard Arnold Martin . From 1875 to 1888, he was a lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology in Berlin, followed by a professorship at the University of Giessen. Here he was successor to Max Hofmeier as chair of OB/GYN, becoming university rector in 1898. At Giessen he was also editor of the Gynäkologische Tagesfragen .

#3917

Kenneth L. Melmon

#3918

Joseé E. Leysen

#3919

James Lawrence Cabell

James Lawrence Cabell

1813 - 1889 (76 years)

Dr. James Lawrence Cabell was an American sanitarian and author. Life He was born in Nelson County, Virginia, the son of Dr. George Cabell, Jr., and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1833. He then studied medicine in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Paris, and became Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the University of Virginia, where he was chairman of the faculty in 1846 and 1847. Cabell was a full professor at the School of Medicine for 52 years and was an early pioneer of the sanitary preparation of the surgical patient following Lister's principles.

#3920

Walter Burckhardt

1905 - 1971 (66 years)

Walter Burckhardt was a Swiss dermatologist most notable for his contributions on occupational dermatoses. During the 1930s, Burckhardt took over from Max Tièche the management of the City Department for Skin and Venereal Diseases in Zurich; he became Privatdozent in 1938 and Titularprofessor in 1947 at the University of Zurich.

#3921

Albert Hilger

1839 - 1905 (66 years)

Albert Hilger was a German pharmacologist and chemist, known for his work in the field of food chemistry. He worked as a pharmacy assistant in the cities of Mannheim, Karlsruhe and Saarbrücken, and studied mathematics and sciences at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe. In 1860 he continued his education at the University of Würzburg, receiving his PhD two years later in Heidelberg. Later on, he spent several years as an assistant to chemist Johann Joseph Scherer at Würzburg.

#3922

William Thelwall Thomas

William Thelwall Thomas

1865 - 1927 (62 years)

Professor William Thelwall Thomas MBE, ChM, FRCS was a Welsh surgeon who worked in Liverpool. Early life, family and education Thomas was born in Liverpool in 1865, the son of the Welsh photographer John Thomas and his wife Elizabeth. His father made a series of photographs of Thomas that are now in the collection of the National Library of Wales.

#3923

Gilbert Girdwood

Gilbert Girdwood

1832 - 1917 (85 years)

Gilbert Prout Girdwood was an English army and civilian physician and surgeon, academic and author, noted for his service in the Canadian Army. He was a pioneer in medical education and radiography in Canada.

#3924

Josef Albert Amann

Josef Albert Amann

1866 - 1919 (53 years)

Josef Albert Amann was a German gynecologist. His father, Josef Albert Amann , was also a gynecologist. He studied medicine at the University of Munich, where his teachers included Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, Otto Bollinger and Franz von Winckel. For several years he worked as an assistant at the university women's clinic in Munich, receiving his habilitation in 1892. In 1898 he succeeded his father as head of the second gynecological department at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus in Munich. In 1905 he became an associate professor at the university.

#3925

Otto Hildebrand

1858 - 1927 (69 years)

Otto Hildebrand was a German pathologist and surgeon. He was the son of economist Bruno Hildebrand and the brother of sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand . He studied anatomy and surgery at the University of Jena, and from 1886 served as assistant to Franz König at the University of Göttingen. In 1888 he obtained his habilitation for surgery, and in 1896 was named head of the surgical polyclinic at the Berlin-Charité. In 1899 he succeeded August Socin as a professor of surgery at the University of Basel, then in 1904 returned to Berlin as successor to his former mentor, Franz König, at the Charité...

#3926

Henry J. Dargie

#3927

Hermann Edler von Zeissl

Hermann Edler von Zeissl

1817 - 1884 (67 years)

Hermann Edler von Zeissl was a Moravia-born Austrian Jewish dermatologist who was born in the village of Vierzighuben , near Zwittau, Moravia. Zeissl received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, and from 1846 worked as a medical assistant in the surgical and dermatological hospitals at the university. In 1861 he became an associate professor in Vienna, and in 1869 was appointed professor and chief physician of the second department for syphilis at General Hospital Vienna. During his career, he was an authority on skin diseases and syphilis.

#3928

Xavier Vilanova i Montiu

1902 - 1965 (63 years)

Xavier Vilanova I Montiu was a Catalan dermatologist. His father, Pelai Vilanova i Massanet, was considered one of the creators of Catalan dermatology. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona in 1923. Subsequently, following his family's advice he moved to Paris to specialize in dermatology at the Hospital Saint Louis, then stayed for a period in Strasbourg and Milan where he received training from other leading scientists. On his return to Spain, he obtained a doctorate in Medicine in Madrid in 1928. In the wake of the Spanish Civil War, he traveled in 1936 to Colombia to run the leprosarium Aguas de Dios.

#3929

Philipp Phoebus

Philipp Phoebus

1804 - 1880 (76 years)

Philipp Phoebus was a German physician and pharmacologist. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin, obtaining his doctorate in 1827. Afterwards he continued his education in Würzburg with Johann Lukas Schönlein and Karl Friedrich Heusinger , in Paris under Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis and at Strasbourg, where he focused on anatomical studies. Following travels in Switzerland and northern Italy, he returned to Berlin, where in 1832 he became privat-docent for normal and pathological anatomy. His interests soon turned to pharmacology. In 1835 he relocated to Stolberg, where along with a medical practice, he conducted pharmacological and toxicological research.

#3930

Alfred Charles Post

Alfred Charles Post

1806 - 1886 (80 years)

Alfred Charles Post was an American surgeon. Post was born in New York City. He graduated from Columbia College in 1822 and from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1827, studied in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London .

#3931

Bernard Waeber

#3932

Julian Taylor

1889 - 1961 (72 years)

Professor Julian Taylor, C.B.E., M.S., F.R.C.S., Hon.F.R.A.C.S. was a specialist in neurological surgery, Senior Surgeon at University College Hospital, a former vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons and later Professor of Surgery at the University of Khartoum.

#3933

Nicolae Blatt

1890 - 1965 (75 years)

Nicolae Blatt was a Romanian ophthalmologist, surgeon, and medical researcher. He was the founder of the first Romanian journal of ophthalmology, "Revista de Oftalmologie" and he published numerous research papers and monographs in foreign ophthalmology journals. and foreign publications'. He was the official ophthalmologist to the Romanian Royal Court from 1931 to 1947 and during World War II secretly helped Queen Helen of Romania rescue Jewish families from concentration camps. Blatt held the positions of University Professor, Chair of the Clinic and Laboratories of the Department of Ophtha...

#3934

Roberta M. Goldwyn

#3935

Judith K. Ockene

#3936

Leonard Leibovici

#3937

Walter R. Nickel

1907 - 1989 (82 years)

Walter Russell "Nick" Nickel, M.D. was an American dermatologist who was one of the founders of the field of dermatopathology. He was a co-founder and president of four different professional societies and was the founding chairman of the Division of Dermatology at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center.

#3938

Lindo Ferguson

1858 - 1948 (90 years)

Sir Henry Lindo Ferguson , known as Lindo Ferguson, was a New Zealand ophthalmologist, university professor and medical school dean. He was born in London, England, on 7 April 1858. Ferguson's parents were Louisa Ann Du Bois and William Ferguson. The family moved from Burton upon Trent, England, to Dublin, Ireland, in 1866.

#3939

Bernhard Seyfert

1817 - 1870 (53 years)

Bernhard Seyfert was an Austrian obstetrician and gynecologist. In 1844 he earned his medical degree from Charles University in Prague, spending the next two years as a secondary hospital physician. From 1847 he worked as an assistant to Antonín Jan Jungmann and later Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau at the Prague maternity hospital. In 1854 became a full professor and director of the obstetrics and gynecology hospital in Prague.

#3940

Hilda Lloyd

1891 - 1982 (91 years)

Dr. Dame Hilda Nora Lloyd, DBE was a British physician and surgeon. She was the first woman to be elected as president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Born in Birmingham, the younger of two daughters, she attended King Edward VI High School, Edgbaston before entering Birmingham University .

#3941

William Thorburn

William Thorburn

1861 - 1923 (62 years)

Sir William Thorburn KBE, CB, CMG, FRCS DL was an English surgeon and pioneer in modern spinal surgery. At the time of his death he was Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Victoria University of Manchester.

#3942

Walter Webb Allport

1824 - 1893 (69 years)

Walter Webb Allport, M.D., D.D.S was an American dentist from New York. Raised on a farm, he left home at the age of fourteen following the Panic of 1837. He studied dentistry at the New York College of Dental Surgery and moved to Chicago, Illinois, shortly after receiving his Doctor of Dental Surgery. He became the preeminent dentist in Chicago, noted for his early use of crystalline gold fillings. He co-founded the American Dental Association in 1859, serving on its board of directors and later serving as president. He also co-founded the Chicago Dental Infirmary. Allport is also noted for ...

#3943

George R. Buchanan

#3944

Hans Heinrich Georg Queckenstedt

Hans Heinrich Georg Queckenstedt

1876 - 1918 (42 years)

Hans Heinrich Georg Queckenstedt was a German neurologist remembered for describing Queckenstedt's phenomenon. He graduated from the University of Leipzig in 1900, having studied under Emil Kraepelin. He worked under Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser, and gained his doctorate in 1904. He worked in Rostock, and was habilitated as Privatdozent in 1913. He studied cerebrospinal fluid dynamics, noting the fluctuation of pressure with respiration. This led to experiments with the Valsalva manoeuvre and jugular vein pressure from which his eponymous test was published. He took part in the First World War ...

#3945

William Guy

1859 - 1950 (91 years)

William Guy BDA FDS LLD was a British pioneer of modern dentistry and the widespread use of anaesthesia. He was instrumental in the creation of the 1921 Dentists Act in the United Kingdom. Life He was born in Biddenden in Kent on 3 December 1859, the son of Dr William Guy of Norwich, and attended Norwich Grammar School. He received a Licentiate from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1892 In 1899 he succeeded William Bowman MacLeod as Dean of the Edinburgh Dental Hospital and served this role for 40 years. The final 5 years were in a transition period with Arthur Cyril William Hu...

#3946

Paul Michaux

1854 - 1923 (69 years)

Doctor Paul Michaux was a French surgeon. After studying at the Paul Verlaine University – Metz, he migrated to Paris, where he actively participated in the Conférence Olivaint and later became president of the organisation. After completing an internship and thesis, his career led him into various hospitals in the city and suburbs, where he developed medical innovations and performed research. As a member of the parish patronage committee, Michaux's moral and religious beliefs led him to establish a type of gymnastics specifically intended for Christian Patriots. His enthusiasm for the sport...

#3947

Hugo Magnus

1842 - 1907 (65 years)

Hugo Magnus was a German ophthalmologist and historian of medicine. He was of Jewish ancestry. He studied medicine at the University of Breslau, where he was a pupil of Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf and Hermann Lebert. In 1867 he received his medical doctorate, and in 1873 qualified as a lecturer in ophthalmology. In 1883 he became an associate professor at the University of Breslau.

#3948

Robert Scot Skirving

1859 - 1956 (97 years)

Robert Scot Skirving was a physician and surgeon in Australia. He was born in the United Kingdom. The University of Sydney named the Scot Skirving Prize in his honour. Life He was born on 18 December 1859 at Campton Farm in the parish of Drem near Haddington, East Lothian. He was the son of Robert Scot Skirving, a farmer, and his wife Elizabeth Owen, daughter of William Owen of Rathdowney in Ireland. His paternal ancestors included both Adam Skirving the songwriter, and Archibald Skirving the artist.

#3949

Santosh Kumar Sen

1910 - 1979 (69 years)

Santosh Kumar Sen was an Indian surgeon and the president of the Association of Surgeons of India. He was the first Indian surgeon to be elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

#3950

Octave Terrillon

Octave Terrillon

1844 - 1895 (51 years)

Octave Roch Simon Terrillon was a French physician and surgeon, known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery. From 1868 he worked as a hospital interne in Paris, where in 1873 he received his medical doctorate. In 1876 he qualified as a hospital surgeon, and eventually became associated with the Salpêtrière Hospital. In 1878 he became an associate professor at the faculty of medicine in Paris.

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