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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#11751

Mary De Vera

#100804

Overall Influence

Mary De Vera is a Canadian pharmacoepidemiologist, health services researcher, and academic. De Vera is an assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department at the University of British Columbia and is the Canada Research Chair in medication adherence, utilization, and outcomes.

#11752

Jerzy Wordliczek

#87966

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Jerzy Władysław Wordliczek is a Polish anesthesiologist and academic, professor of medical sciences, Head of the Intensive Care Interdisciplinary Clinic of the Jagiellonian University Medical College. He is an author of more than three hundred scientific papers and Jagiellonian University Rector's Proxy for Clinical Affairs at the Medical College.

#11753

Hitoshi Takahashi

#184334

Overall Influence

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Brian Shure

#80723

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Brian R. Shure is an American printmaker, painter, author and educator. He is best known for his mastery of printing techniques, knowledge of lesser known art techniques and has published multiple books about the art of chine-collé.

#11755

Marc Froment-Meurice

#174528

Overall Influence

1953 - 2019 (66 years)

Marc Froment-Meurice is a French and American writer and philosopher. Early life Born in Tokyo on 30 October 1953 to a French diplomat father and a mother Pupille de la Nation who met while both graduating from the École Nationale d’Administration .

#11756

Hazel K. Bell

#155978

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Hazel K. Bell is an indexer, editor and writer. Bell was editor of The Indexer and Learned Publishing journals. She has created nearly 900 book indexes and has also written and edited several books. Bell received the Carey Award for services to indexing in 1997 and has been awarded the Wheatley Medal of the Society of Indexers for an outstanding index twice in 2005 and 2006.

#11757

Daniela M. Ferreira

#182421

Overall Influence

Daniela M. Ferreira is a Brazilian British immunologist. She is a specialist in bacterial infection, respiratory co-infection, mucosal immunology and vaccine responses. She is currently Professor of Respiratory Infection and Vaccinology at the Oxford Vaccine Group in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford and the Director of the Liverpool Vaccine Group at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She leads a team of scientists studying protective immune responses against pneumococcus and other respiratory pathogens such as SARS-CoV2. Her team has established a novel method of inducing pneumococcal carriage in human volunteers.

#11758

John C. Green

#184388

Overall Influence

#11759

Samuel Cabanchik

#181302

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Samuel, Manuel Cabanchik is an Argentine philosopher, academic and politician. He was elected to the Argentine Senate in 2007, representing the City of Buenos Aires on the Civic Coalition ticket. He left the Civic Coalition on July 8, 2009, and formed his own parliamentary group, the Federal Buenos Aires Project, and was subsequently considered a circumstantial ally of the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner government.

#11760

Yu Dunkang

#130500

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Yu Dunkang was a Chinese philosopher and historian of Chinese philosophy, known for his research on Xuanxue and the I Ching. Denounced as a "rightist" during the Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957, he was banished from academia for twenty years. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, he became a research professor at the Institute of World Religions of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences , and was elected an honorary academician of the CASS.

#11761

Scott Hadland

#96569

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Scott E. Hadland is an American physician and scientist who serves as a pediatrician, and addiction specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he is the Chief of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. He previously served as an addiction specialist at the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center.

#11762

John Howard

#20362

Overall Influence

John Jackson Howard is an American physician, professor, and public health administrator who served a 6-year term as the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and was appointed to be a special coordinator to respond to the health effects of the September 11 attacks. In this role, Howard advocated for rescue workers, introducing a program to provide screening, medical exams, and treatment for them. In 2009, Howard was again appointed as director of NIOSH and as World Trade Center Programs coordinator for HHS. In 2011, Howard became the Administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program.

#11763

Vern Countryman

#57089

Overall Influence

1917 - 1999 (82 years)

Vernon Countryman , was a professor at Harvard Law School and social critic who was an expert on bankruptcy and commercial law. Early years and education Vern Countryman was born in Roundup, Montana. His father, Alexander Countryman, was the under sheriff of Musselshell County and his mother, Carrie Harriman, a homemaker. The family moved to Longview, Washington, where Vern excelled at high school athletics and was class president both his junior and senior years.

#11764

Laurent Lantieri

Laurent Lantieri

#80834

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Laurent Lantieri is a French plastic surgeon who is a pioneer in the field of face transplantation. He performed the first second and third full face transplants. He was the first person to do a second face transplant on the same patient in 2018.

#11765

Brian Windeyer

#96972

Overall Influence

1904 - 1994 (90 years)

Sir Brian Wellingham Windeyer was Professor of Therapeutic Radiology at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London, from 1942 to 1969, Dean of school from 1954 to 1967 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1969 to 1972.

#11766

Ari Trausti Guðmundsson

#70257

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Ari Trausti Guðmundsson is an Icelandic geologist, author, documentarian, broadcaster, journalist, lecturer, mountaineer and explorer. He worked as teacher, consultant and lecturer on: earth science, environmental and tourism issues. He served as a mountain guide, TV- weather reporter, media presenter and producer and has planned nature and science exhibitions in Iceland, Paris and London and authored non-fiction books, fiction and poetry. He was a presidential candidate in 2012.He was elected as a member of Icelandic Parliament in 2016 and served until 2021.

#11767

Kathrin Muegge

#99933

Overall Influence

Kathrin Muegge is a German physician and molecular biologist researching chromatin organization during embryonic development and in tumor progression. She is a senior investigator and head of the epigenetics section at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.

#11768

Eben Iii Alexander

#184410

Overall Influence

#11769

Tyler Cymet

#49175

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Tyler C. Cymet, D.O., FACP, FACOFP, FACHT is a physician in Baltimore, Maryland. Cymet attended Emory University for his premedical undergraduate degree and majored in psychology and anthropology. He then attended medical school at Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine to acquire his medical degree, served as an intern at the Midwestern University Graduate Medical Education system, performed a Primary Care Internal Medicine residency at Yale University, and did additional training at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore.

#11770

Richard Carmona

#61361

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Richard Henry Carmona is an American physician, nurse, police officer, public health administrator, and politician. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States. Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002, Carmona left office at the end of July 2006 upon the expiration of his term. After leaving office, Carmona was highly critical of the Bush administration for suppressing scientific findings which conflicted with the administration's ideological agenda.

#11771

Stephen R. Bloom

#184446

Overall Influence

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Mark Jonathan Harris

#105175

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Mark Jonathan Harris is an American documentary filmmaker probably best known for his films Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and The Long Way Home . He has directed three documentaries which have gone on to win Oscars, across three different decades.

#11773

Holger Lode

#96759

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Holger Lode is a German specialist for pediatrics. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of General Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the University Medicine Greifswald. He is also the director of the Center of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine in Greifswald. Lode is well known for his clinical and scientific work on immunotherapy of neuroblastoma.

#11774

Hilary Knight

#29449

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Hilary Knight is an American writer and artist. He is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books. He is best known as the illustrator and co-creator of Kay Thompson's Eloise and others in the Eloise series.

#11775

Linda Burhansstipanov

#105698

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Linda Burhansstipanov is an American public health educator and researcher. She is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and specializes on cancer care and support in Native American communities. A leader in Native American cancer research, she is the founder and president of the Native American Cancer Research Corporation, a non-profit organization that studies how the unique situations of Native Americans interact with cancer treatment. She is also a member of the National Institutes of Health national advisory council on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Native American com...

#11776

Sybe Schaap

#178397

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Sybe Schaap is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. He has been Senator since 12 July 2007 till 11 July 2019, doing water, agriculture, foreign affairs and European Union affairs. For example, he arranged a majority in favor of the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement in the Dutch parliament.

#11777

Hazel Hall

#139131

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Hazel Jane Read Hall is a British Information scientist and academic. She is Emeritus Professor in the School of Computing, Engineering, and Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland and Docent in Information Studies in the School of Business and Economics at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

#11778

Fatmir Dalladaku

#73751

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Fatmir Dalladaku is a German cardiac surgeon of Albanian origin. He is best known for performing the first open-heart surgery in Kosovo, and for his pro bono work for patients from Kosovo, Albania and North Macedonia. He spent the biggest part of his professional career in Germany, beginning in 1989.

#11779

Jin Eun-young

#171176

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Jin Eun-young is a South Korean poet and philosopher. She has been praised by the poet Choi Seung-ja, who said “I’ve finally found a poet whom I can call my true successor." Life Jin Eun-young was born in Daejeon, South Korea in 1970. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in philosophy at Ewha Womans' University. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Nichewa chaiui cheorak . She made her literary debut when "Keodaran changoga itneun jip" and three of her other poems were published in the 2000 Spring issue of Literature and Society. She has three poetry collections published to date: Ilgop gaeui daneoro dwen sajeon , Urineun maeilmaeil , and Humcheoganeun norae .

#11780

Fran Hosken

#13488

Overall Influence

1919 - 2006 (87 years)

Fran P. Hosken was an American designer, writer, feminist, and social activist. She founded the Women's International Network in 1975, and published a quarterly journal on women's health issues that became known, in particular, for its research into female genital mutilation .

#11781

Siglind Bruhn

#103822

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Siglind Bruhn is a German musicologist, writer and concert pianist. Biography and career Siglind Bruhn was born in Hamburg. Her father was the engineer Ernst Bruhn, her mother the interpreter Leonore Bruhn née Kieberger. She made her first solo concerts and performances with orchestras as a soloist at the age of 14. During the last two years before her high school graduation , she was a student in the piano class of Professor Eckart Besch at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. She completed her studies in the master class of Vladimir Horbowski at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart; 1975 State Examen in piano performance and piano pedagogy.

#11782

David Koepsell

#181578

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

David Richard Koepsell is an American author, philosopher, attorney, and educator whose recent research focuses on how ethics and public policy deal with emerging science and technology. He has been a practicing attorney, been employed as an ontologist, been a university professor, and has lectured worldwide. He is a visiting professor of research ethics at National Autonomous University of Mexico, director of research and strategic initiatives at Comisión Nacional de Bioética Mexico, an adjunct professor at University at Buffalo and a senior fellow and education director of the Center for I...

#11783

Gerasimos Xenophon Santas

#184511

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Gerasimos Xenophon Santas was a Greek-American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. A festschrift in his honor was published in 2011.

#11784

Oliver Fiechter

Oliver Fiechter

#140280

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Oliver Fiechter is a Swiss economic philosopher, digital business model innovatonist, management visionaire, entrepreneur, and author of the books We Are The Economy! and Rise of the Digital Tribal Society .

#11785

John Wood

#35793

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

John Wood is an English sound engineer and producer, best known for his work with Fairport Convention, John Martyn, Cat Stevens, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, the Incredible String Band, Pink Floyd, Nico and Squeeze.

#11786

T. Nakamura

#184557

Overall Influence

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Terry Fulmer

#71784

Overall Influence

Teresa Thomas "Terry" Fulmer, is the current president of The John A. Hartford Foundation. Earlier positions include distinguished professor and dean of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University and dean of the College of Nursing at New York University. She is known for her extensive research in geriatrics and elder abuse. She has received funding from the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Nursing Research and other foundations for her research regarding elder abuse.

#11788

Mary Pannbacker

#120457

Overall Influence

2000 - 2015 (15 years)

Mary Pannbacker was a speech-language pathologist and university professor. She held an endowed chair, the Albertson's Professor of Speech-Language Pathology, at LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport. She was a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

#11789

Tomás Várnagy

#111487

Overall Influence

1950 - 2022 (72 years)

Tomás Várnagy was an Argentine social scientist and philosopher, professor at the University of Buenos Aires . Early life and education Várnagy was born in Buenos Aires. After completing his secondary studies in the United States, he studied Philosophy at UBA, and he holds a Master's degree in Eastern European Sociology and a PhD in Social Sciences . He also holds a higher degree in Social Sciences with a mention in Political Science from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences .

#11790

Edward Shanbrom

#82443

Overall Influence

1924 - 2012 (88 years)

Edward Shanbrom was an American medical researcher and hematologist, best known for the development of the process allowing the clotting protein Factor VIII to be made to treat hemophilia. Early life and education Edward Shanbrom was born in West Haven, Connecticut, United States, and served in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. He then received a Bachelor of Science from Allegheny College, and a medical degree from the University of Buffalo School of Medicine. Following an internship for the Buffalo University Hospital, Shanbrom received a fellowship to Yale University, where he studied hematology.

#11791

Charlotte Coles

#180134

Overall Influence

Charlotte E. Coles is a British oncologist and professor at the University of Cambridge Her research focuses on using personalised radiation therapy for people with breast cancer. In 2019 she was awarded a Research Professorship at the National Institute for Health Research .

#11792

Brigitte Young

#60285

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Brigitte Young , is Professor Emeritus of International political economy at the Institute of Political Science, University of Münster, Germany. Her research areas include economic globalization, global governance, feminist economics, international trade, global financial market governance and monetary policy. She has worked on EU-US financial regulatory frameworks, European economic and monetary integration and heterodox economic theories. She is the author of many journal articles and books in English and German on the Global financial crisis of 2008–2009, the US Subprime mortgage crisis...

#11793

Marc Bessler

#121115

Overall Influence

Marc Bessler is an American surgeon known for his innovations in bariatrics. He is currently the United States Surgical Professor of Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center and also serves as a content contributor for Bariatric Surgery Source. Bessler specializes in surgical management of morbid obesity and laparoscopic surgery of the stomach, among other specialties.

#11794

George Canellos

George Canellos

#59757

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

George P. Canellos is an American oncologist and cancer researcher. His research career spans many decades, as well as several areas of therapeutic agents for the treatment of malignant diseases. He is perhaps most known for his work with Vincent T. DeVita in which he developed the combination chemotherapy CMF, which was one of the first combination therapies for breast cancer. The two also collaborated to create the MOPP regimen for Hodgkin's lymphoma.

#11795

Jitendra Nath Pande

#54855

Overall Influence

1941 - 2020 (79 years)

Jitendra Nath Pande or J. N. Pande was an Indian Pulmonologist and Professor and Head of Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Studies . He was working as Senior Consultant at Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science & Research, New Delhi. He died on 23 May 2020 during sleep when he was home quarantined due to COVID-19 positivity during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, in New Delhi.

#11796

Nicole Bouvier

#182852

Overall Influence

Nicole M. Bouvier is an American physician who is Professor of Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research considers the environmental and viral factors that impact respiratory transmission of influenza viruses.

#11797

Paul C Taylor

#184611

Overall Influence

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Claire Penn

#125769

Overall Influence

1951 - 2018 (67 years)

Claire Penn was a South African speech and language pathologist, and held the endowed chair of Speech Pathology and Audiology at the University of the Witwatersrand, and was a former senior research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council. She received the Order of Mapungubwe in 2007, South Africa's highest honor, for her work in linguistics, sign language, child language, aphasia, and head injury.

#11799

Gilles Freyer

#170878

Overall Influence

Gilles Freyer is a French professor, oncologist and medical professional who has specialised in the field of gynaecological cancers. He is currently head of the Department of Medical Oncology and Vice-Dean of the University of Lyon. He is also the current Medical Director of the Cancer Institute of the Hospices Civils de Lyon. He is known for having been the President of the cooperative group GINECO from 2013. He was also a member of the International Scientific Committee of INCa . Professor Freyer is also known for being the President of the Monaco Age Oncologie and the Co-President of the ...

#11800

Lorna Piatti-Farnell

#88111

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Lorna Piatti-Farnell is an academic in New Zealand who researches popular media and cultural history. She is professor of film and popular culture at Auckland University of Technology . Academic career Lorna Piatti-Farnell was born in 1980. She was educated at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, graduating in 2009 with a PhD. She was employed by De Montfort University and Bishop Grosseteste University prior to moving to New Zealand where she joined AUT in 2010, being promoted to full professor, effective 1 January 2020.

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