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Andrea L. Cheville
Andrea L. Cheville is an American physiatrist and cancer rehabilitation researcher at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.
Arthur B. Sanders
Arthur B. Sanders is an American emergency physician and resuscitation researcher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2012.
Audiologists
Audiologists are health care professionals who evaluate, diagnose, and treat hearing loss, balance disorders, and tinnitus in all ages, typically holding a doctor of audiology degree.
Balamurali Ambati
Balamurali Krishna "Bala" Ambati, American ophthalmologist and clinician-scientist, Guinness world's youngest doctor (Mount Sinai, 1995, age 17); corneal angiogenesis researcher, iVeena founder, Eugene, Oregon surgeon.
Barbara de Lateur
Barbara Jane de Lateur is an American physiatrist who led physical medicine and rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1996.
Clinical genetics
Clinical genetics: medical specialty for diagnosis, prevention, and management of genetic disorders via consultation, risk assessment, and counseling; established as a discipline in the 1950s.
Dermatologists
Dermatologists are medical doctors specializing in skin, hair, and nail conditions, trained via residency and board certification (FAAD), with subspecialties like Mohs surgery and dermatopathology, and increasingly using teledermatology.
Dewi Evans
Dewi Evans, or Dewi Richard Evans, is a retired British consultant pediatrician at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, and lead prosecution expert witness in the 2023 Lucy Letby trial.
Diana D. Cardenas
Diana D. Cardenas is an American physiatrist and spinal cord injury researcher who chaired rehabilitation medicine at the University of Miami and joined the Institute of Medicine in 2004.
E. Albert Reece
E. Albert Reece is a Jamaican-born American obstetrician-scientist in maternal-fetal medicine known for research on diabetes-induced birth defects and prenatal diagnosis, including embryofetoscopy.
E. John Gallagher
E. John Gallagher is an emergency physician and Professor Emeritus at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He founded the department and oversaw over 500,000 annual emergency visits.
Emergency medicine
Emergency medicine: medical specialty for unscheduled evaluation, treatment, and prevention of unexpected illness and injury. Also called EM; recognized as the 23rd US medical specialty in 1979; spans prehospital EMS, triage, and emergency department care.
Endocrinology
Endocrinology: the medical and biological study of hormones and the endocrine system, also called hormone science. Covers glandular disorders (diabetes, thyroid, adrenal, pituitary, bone), its 1889–1905 founding, training pathways, and workforce access challenges.
Family medicine
Family medicine, also known as family practice or general practice, is the medical specialty providing first-contact, continuous care for patients of all ages, recognized in the US in 1969.
Family Physicians
Family physicians: specialists in family medicine providing first-contact, continuous, comprehensive lifelong care; certified via the American Board of Family Medicine since 1969; represented by the AAFP.
Fe del Mundo
Fe del Mundo (1911-2011), Filipina pediatrician and first woman National Scientist of the Philippines; founded the country's first pediatric hospital (1957), researched dengue and childhood vaccines, invented a bamboo incubator.
François Olivennes
François Olivennes, French gynecologist-obstetrician and IVF specialist who worked with René Frydman at Antoine Béclère, directed Cochin's reproductive medicine unit from 2002, then practiced at Eylau-La Muette; author of Mille et un bébés.
Frank V. deGruy III
Frank V. deGruy III, also known as Frank Verloin deGruy III, is an American family physician and researcher of mental health care in primary care at the University of Colorado.
Gary Robert Fleisher
Gary Robert Fleisher (born 1951) is an American pediatric emergency medicine physician who served as Physician-in-Chief at Boston Children's Hospital and helped found the field academically.
Gastroenterologists
Gastroenterologists, also called GI doctors, are internal medicine subspecialists treating digestive disorders from esophagus to rectum, performing endoscopy and colonoscopy, with hepatology as a liver-focused subspecialty.
Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology, also known as gastrointestinal medicine, is the medical specialty covering disorders of the digestive tract, liver, pancreas, and gallbladder, divided into luminal gastroenterology and hepatology and known for endoscopy.
General practitioner
A general practitioner (GP), also called a family physician or family doctor, is a medical doctor who provides comprehensive primary care to people of all ages and sexes.
George A. Macones
George A. Macones is an American maternal-fetal medicine specialist who chairs the Department of Women's Health at Dell Medical School and serves as president of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Gerard E. Francisco
Gerard E. Francisco is an American physiatrist who chairs physical medicine and rehabilitation at UTHealth Houston, leads TIRR Memorial Hermann, and studies recovery after neurologic injury.
Geriatricians
Geriatricians: physicians specially trained in care of older adults (geriatric medicine, comprehensive geriatric assessment). Strongest evidence is better medication management; mortality benefit unproven; persistent workforce shortage.
Gerold L. Schiebler
Gerold L. Schiebler (1928–2024) was an American pediatric cardiologist at the University of Florida who chaired its pediatrics department and built Florida's Children's Medical Services program.
Henry W. Foster Jr
Henry W. Foster Jr. (1933–2022) was an American obstetrician-gynecologist and medical educator at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, known for reducing infant mortality and his contested 1995 Surgeon General nomination.
Infectious diseases
Infectious diseases (ID), also called communicable diseases medicine, is the non-procedural medical specialty covering pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and epidemiology of infections; its knowledge base exceeds comparable specialties and 80% of US counties lack an ID physician.
Internal medicine
Internal medicine: the adult-medicine specialty practiced by internists, covering diagnosis and care across all organ systems; three-year US residency, ABIM certification since 1936, subspecialties, hospitalists, and European five-year training.
Ivan Raimi
Ivan Mitchell Raimi (born 1956) is an American emergency medicine physician and screenwriter, older brother of Sam and Ted Raimi, co-writer of Darkman, Army of Darkness, Spider-Man 3, and Drag Me to Hell.