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Rebecca Landa
1955 - Present (69 years)
Rebecca Jean Moellman-Landa is an American speech-language pathologist specializing in neuropsychology and autism research. She is the founder and director of the center for autism and related disorders at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Landa is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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Diane Winston
1951 - Present (73 years)
Diane Winston is an American professor of Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, and an author. USC lists her current research interests as media coverage of Islam, religion and new media, and the place of religion in American identity.
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Marsha Kinder
1940 - Present (84 years)
Marsha Kinder is an American film scholar and Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California. Background Kinder began her career as a scholar of eighteenth-century English Literature before moving to the study of transmedia relations among various narrative art forms. From 1965 through 1980 she taught at Occidental College in the Dept. of English and Comparative Literature. With her colleague, William Moritz, Kinder introduced film studies into their curriculum. In 1980 she joined USC as a Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts where she taught ...
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Lula Lubchenco
1915 - 2001 (86 years)
Lula Olga Lubchenco was an American pediatrician. Her family moved from Russian Turkestan to South Carolina when she was a small child, and Lubchenco's higher education and career were spent almost entirely in Colorado. After completing a pediatric residency in Denver, Lubchenco joined the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and was the first director of the Premature Infant Center at Colorado General Hospital.
Go to ProfileSheila Lukehart is an American physician who is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington. Her research covered immune responses and the pathogenesis of syphilis. In 2023, she was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology.
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Cissy Kityo
1962 - Present (62 years)
Cissy Kityo Mutuluuza , is a Ugandan physician, epidemiologist and medical researcher. She is the Executive Director of the Joint Clinical Research Centre, a government-owned medical research institution in Uganda, specializing in HIV/AIDS treatment and management.
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Melissa Terras
1950 - Present (74 years)
Melissa Mhairi Terras is a British scholar of Digital Humanities. Since 2017, she has been Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, and director of its Centre for Digital Scholarship. She previously taught at University College London, where she was Professor of Digital Humanities and served as director of its Centre for Digital Humanities from 2012 to 2017: she remains an honorary professor. She has a wide ranging academic background: she has an undergraduate degree in art history and English literature, then took a Master of Science degree in computer science,...
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Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci
1976 - Present (48 years)
Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci is an Italian cardiologist working in England. Career Bucciarelli-Ducci was born on June 15, 1976. She completed her general medical training and her specialist cardiology training at the Sapienza University in Rome, before taking on a doctorate at Imperial College London. Formerly a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol and Co-Director of the Clinical Research and Imaging Centre Bristol, she was named the Chief Executive Officer of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. Since September 2021, she works at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundat...
Go to ProfileSophia Zoungas is a clinical endocrinologist from Victoria, Australia. She is recognised for her work in the management of diabetes and its vascular complications and leads Australia's largest translational research program in diabetes care and benchmarking of diabetes services. Zoungas's research explores the link between diabetes, glucose levels and cardiovascular risks and has enabled people with diabetes to be prescribed medication that reduce their cardiovascular risk factors. She is head of the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Monash University and is the Professor o...
Go to ProfileSoodabeh Davaran is an Iranian researcher, and professor of polymer chemistry in the Faculty of Pharmacy in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. She has written many articles about chemistry. Awards Awards include:Davaran has gained First Rank of 9th Razi festival in Pharmacy , 2003; December, Tehran-Iran.She has been selected among the Women Elites of Iran and All Elites around the Islamic World, 2007: July, Tehran- Iran.She has been selected to be included in the first edition of "Who's Who in Plastics and Polymers", James P Harrington, Editor in chief, Society of Plastic Engineers, Techn...
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Caroline S. Wagner
1955 - Present (69 years)
Caroline S. Wagner is an American academic and author specializing in public policy related to science, technology, and innovation. As of 2011, Wagner holds the endowed chair in international affairs named for Milton A. Wolf and Roslyn Z. Wolf at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
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Anita Goel
1973 - Present (51 years)
Anita Goel is an American physicist, physician, and scientist in the emerging field of Nanobiophysics. At the Nanobiosym Research Institute , Goel examines the physics of life and the way nanomotors read and write information into DNA.
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Angela Cheung
2000 - Present (24 years)
Angela Man-Wei Cheung is a Canadian internal medicine specialist. At the University of Toronto, she is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, the KY and Betty Ho Chair of Integrative Medicine, and a senior scientist at Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and the Schroeder Arthritis Institute. Cheung also established the University of Toronto Center for Excellence in Skeletal Health Assessment and the Osteoporosis Program at the University Health Network.
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Pam Cook
1943 - Present (81 years)
Pam Cook is Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton. She was educated at Sir William Perkins's School, Chertsey, Surrey and Birmingham University, where she was taught by Stuart Hall, Richard Hoggart, Malcolm Bradbury, and David Lodge. Along with Laura Mulvey and Claire Johnston, she was a pioneer of 1970s Anglo-American feminist film theory. Her collaboration with Claire Johnston on the work of Hollywood film director Dorothy Arzner provoked debate among feminist film scholars over the following decades.
Go to ProfileAdina L. Roskies is an American philosopher and the Helman Family Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College. She is known for her works on neuroethics, neuroscience of free will and epiphenomenalism. Roskies was Senior Editor of the journal Neuron.
Go to ProfileJennifer Helen Martin is an Australian clinical pharmacologist, physician and academic. She is chair of Clinical Pharmacology in the University of Newcastle School of Medicine and Public Health, Director of the NHMRC funded Australian Centre for Cannabinoid Clinical and Research Excellence , and an elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Martin translates research into practice and policy. Her research involves the investigation of therapeutic drugs, from drug design and development, to clinical trials and studies to investigate how new drugs perform in the g...
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Jacqueline Noonan
1928 - 2020 (92 years)
Jacqueline Anne Noonan was an American pediatric cardiologist best known for her characterization of a genetic disorder now called Noonan syndrome. She was also the original describer of hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
Go to ProfilePatrizia Farci is an Italian scientist and hepatologist. She is chief of the hepatic pathogenesis section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Farci conducts translational research in the field of liver diseases, particularly in the study of pathogenesis of acute and chronic viral hepatitis. She was previously a full professor of medicine and director of the liver unit and the postgraduate school of gastroenterology at the University of Cagliari.
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Anna Popova
1960 - Present (64 years)
Anna Yuryevna Popova is a Russian physician and public health official. She is serving as head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare, practically the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation since October 23, 2013. Acting State Advisor to the Russian Federation, Class 1 . Epidemiologist, hygienist, MD, professor.
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Sandra Eades
1967 - Present (57 years)
Sandra Eades is a Noongar physician, researcher and professor, and the first Aboriginal medical practitioner to be awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in 2003. As of March 2020 she is Dean of Medicine at Curtin University.
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Tarja Knuuttila
1960 - Present (64 years)
Tarja Knuuttila is a Finnish philosopher of science. She is a professor of philosophy of science at the University of Vienna. Research Much of Knuuttila's research concerns the epistemology of scientific modelling, the relation of scientific models to the real world, and the connection between simplicity and generality of models, with varied fields of application including ecology, economics, and engineering. She is also the principal investigator of the Possible Life project of the European Research Council, which studies the philosophy of hypothetical types of biochemistry including syntheti...
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Sharon D. Welch
1952 - Present (72 years)
Sharon D. Welch is an academic scholar, social ethicist and author of six books on ethics, theology, politics, religion and spirituality. After having served as Provost and Professor of Religion for ten years, she is currently Affiliate Faculty member at Meadville Lombard Theological School.
Go to ProfileHelen Victoria Danesh-Meyer is a New Zealand ophthalmology academic, and as of 2018 is a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After an undergraduate at the University of Otago followed by a 2004 MD titled 'The evaluation of diagnostic procedures, visual outcome and optic nerve morphology in giant cell arteritis' and a 2013 PhD titled 'Evaluation of optic nerve morphology in non-glaucomatous optic neuropathies with quantitative optic nerve imaging modalities' at the University of Auckland, Danesh-Meyer joined the staff at Auckland, rising to full professor.
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Ewa Mazierska
1964 - Present (60 years)
Ewa Mazierska is a reader in Contemporary Cinema, in the Department of Humanities of the University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include various articles in Polish and English and a number of monographs. She also co-edited Relocating Britishness .
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Kelly McQueen
1962 - Present (62 years)
Kathryn Ann Kelly "Kelly" McQueen is an American anesthesiologist and global health expert. She currently practices anesthesiology at the UW Health University Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin and serves as the chair for the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public health.
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Susan Elderkin
1968 - Present (56 years)
Susan Elderkin is an English author of two critically acclaimed novels, her first, Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains won a Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, her second, The Voices was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She was one of Granta Magazine's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and won the 2007 Society of Authors Travel Award. She is the author, with Ella Berthoud, of The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies and The Story Cure: Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise.
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Krista Kostial-Šimonović
1923 - 2018 (95 years)
Krista Kostial-Šimonović was a Croatian physician and academic who researched the effects of human exposure to heavy metals and toxicity. She was elected as an associate member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1981 and became a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, when the country gained its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. In 1996, she was honored with the Order of Danica Hrvatska in recognition of her scientific work.
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Luigia Carlucci Aiello
1946 - Present (78 years)
Luigia Carlucci Aiello is an Italian computer scientist, emeritus professor of artificial intelligence at Sapienza University of Rome. Education and career Aiello is originally from Fabriano. After earning a diploma from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1968, Aiello became a researcher for the National Research Council , in Pisa, also working in the 1970s with John McCarthy at Stanford University, following the death of her husband, computer scientist Mario Aiello, in 1976.
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Noëlle McAfee
1960 - Present (64 years)
Noëlle McAfee is professor of philosophy and affiliated faculty in women's, gender, and sexuality studies and psychoanalytic studies at Emory University, where she has taught since 2010. McAfee previously taught at several other universities, including serving as Allen-Berenson Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Brandeis University. She has worked extensively in democratic theory, new media, and psychoanalytic theories of the public sphere. McAfee is currently the co-chair of Public Philosophy Network, associate editor of the Kettering Review, and has spent a nu...
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Mari Ruti
1964 - 2023 (59 years)
Mari Ruti was a Finnish-Canadian philosopher. She had served as Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies on the graduate faculty at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, and as an Undergraduate Instructor at their Mississauga campus. She was an interdisciplinary scholar within the theoretical humanities working at the intersection of contemporary theory, continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies, trauma theory, posthumanist ethics, gender, and sexuality studies.
Go to ProfileJulie Leask or Julie-Anne Leask is an Australian social scientist and professor in the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. Leask is a leading researcher on social and behavioural aspects of vaccination and infectious disease prevention. Leask’s research focuses on vaccine uptake, communication, strengthening vaccination programs and policy. Leask’s flagship project is Knowledge About Immunisation - a vaccination communication package designed to improve vaccination conversations between parents and health care workers. Additionall...
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Carol J. Clover
1940 - Present (84 years)
Carol Jeanne Clover is an American professor of Medieval Studies and American Film at the University of California, Berkeley. Clover has been widely published in her areas of expertise, and is the author of three books. Clover's 1992 book, Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film achieved popularity beyond academe. Clover is credited with developing the "final girl" theory in the horror genre, which has changed both popular and academic conceptions of gender in horror films.
Go to ProfileAnnalee Yassi is a Canadian health scholar, currently a Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Capacity Building at University of British Columbia.
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Jane E. Henney
1947 - Present (77 years)
Jane Ellen Henney is an American physician who was the first woman to serve as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, she served at the FDA from 1999 to 2001.
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Felicity Goodyear-Smith
1952 - Present (72 years)
Felicity Anne Goodyear-Smith is a medical doctor, academic, and public health advocate from New Zealand. She is Academic Head of Department & Goodfellow Postgraduate Chair of General Practice & Primary Health Care in the Faculty of Medical and Health Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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Deborah Birx
1956 - Present (68 years)
Deborah Leah Birx is an American physician and diplomat who served as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under President Donald Trump from 2020 to 2021. Birx specializes in HIV/AIDS immunology, vaccine research, and global health. Starting in 2014, she oversaw the implementation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program to support HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs in 65 countries. From 2014-2020, Birx was the United States global AIDS coordinator for presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump and served as the United States special representative for global health diplomacy between 2015 and 2021.
Go to ProfileChristine Jones is an American scenic designer on Broadway. Her best-known designs include Spring Awakening, American Idiot, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. In 2010, she created an experimental, two-week project called Theatre for One in which one actor performs for one audience member. It was repeated in 2015. She is a professor at New York University and a lecturer at Princeton University.
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Margaret Peterson
1902 - 1997 (95 years)
Margaret Peterson was an American painter of abstract art and known for creating a style that was highly influenced by the art of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Biography Peterson was born in Seattle, Washington. In the 1920s she studied at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1926 with a Bachelor in Arts and soon joined its faculty of Fine Arts in 1928. The years between 1928 and 1950 were productive years for Peterson; this included a funded trip to Europe , several exhibitions, marriage to her husband, the Canadian writer Howard O'Hagan , and a year spent at Gree...
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Yelena Malysheva
1961 - Present (63 years)
Yelena Vasilyevna Malysheva is a Russian physician, internist, cardiologist, teacher, and television host. She has been educating Russians on healthy lifestyles for two decades. She hosts the TV programs Zdorovye and Zhit zdorovo! , which air on Channel One. She is currently a professor at the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry.
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Charlotte Haug
1959 - Present (65 years)
Charlotte Haug is a Norwegian physician and editor, former editor of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. Haug graduated as dr.med. in infection immunology from the University of Oslo in 1999, and eventually as Master of Science in health research from Stanford University. She edited the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association from 2002 to 2015.
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Christa Peters-Lidard
1969 - Present (55 years)
Christa Peters-Lidard is an American hydrologist known for her work on integrating land surface modeling and data assimilation, particularly with remotely sensed measurements of precipitation. Early life Peters-Lidard grew up in Chesterfield County, Virginia where she was fascinated about nature, learned that she was good at math, and that she liked earth science. As an undergraduate at Virginia Tech she worked on a project on aquifers and groundwater flow at the United States Geological Survey and at that point she realized that she wanted to be an earth scientist at National Aeronautics and ...
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Yulia Sineokaya
1969 - Present (55 years)
Yulia Vadimovna Sineokaya is a Russian philosopher, specialising in the history of European and Russian philosophy. Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy , Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
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Cora Sternberg
1951 - Present (73 years)
Dr. Cora Sternberg is an American medical oncologist at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, serving as a member of the Genitourinary Oncology Program. Dr. Sternberg facilitates the continued growth and development of clinical and translational research programs in GU malignancies. Dr. Sternberg is an internationally respected leader in the field of medical oncology and urological malignancies and a recognized expert in the area of new drug development. She is known for her seminal contributions in bladder cancer, her strong track record of sustained genito-urinary oncol...
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Pamela Huby
1922 - 2019 (97 years)
Pamela Margaret Huby was a British philosopher and emeritus reader in philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Born in Dulwich, she was educated at James Allen's Girls' School and then won a senior scholarship in Classics to Lady Margaret Hall Oxford University. She was then an assistant lecturer in Classics at Reading and after a year returned to Oxford to lecture at St Anne's College where she switched to the field of ancient Greek philosophy, moving to Liverpool two years later.
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Rita Mae Brown
1944 - Present (80 years)
Rita Mae Brown is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns and criticized the marginalization of lesbians within feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015.
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Teresa Brennan
1952 - 2003 (51 years)
Teresa Brennan was an Australian feminist philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist best known for her posthumous book, The Transmission of Affect . Before her death, Brennan was Schmidt Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, where she founded a PhD program for Public Intellectuals.
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Fumiko Hori
1918 - 2019 (101 years)
was a Japanese artist, known for her paintings in the Nihonga style. Biography Hori was born to a scholarly family in Hirakawacho, in Tokyo, Japan, in 1918. In 1940, she graduated from Women's School of Fine Arts . She trained in Nihonga, a traditional Japanese painting style. In 1952, she won the Uemura Shōen Award, given to outstanding Japanese female painters.
Go to ProfileYvonne "Bonnie" Maldonado is an American physician, pediatrician, and Professor of Pediatrics and of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University, with a focus on Infectious Diseases. She founded Stanford's pediatric HIV Clinic and now serves as Stanford University School of Medicine's Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity.
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Constance Tom Noguchi
1948 - Present (76 years)
Constance Tom Noguchi is a research physicist, Chief of the Molecular Cell Biology Section, and Dean of the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences Graduate School at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health . Noguchi studies the underlying genetics, metabolism, and treatment of sickle cell disease and of erythropoietin and its effects on metabolism.
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Lidia Rudnicka
1960 - Present (64 years)
Lidia Rudnicka is a Polish-American dermatologist with contributions to the field of scleroderma research, hair diseases and melanoma prevention. Rudnicka was the chairman of the Department of Dermatology CSK MSWiA in Warsaw, Poland . She is currently chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Medical University of Warsaw. She is president of the Polish Dermatological Society, first president of the International Society of Trichoscopy, regional editor for the International Journal of Trichology, and associate editor of the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.
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