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John A. Benson Jr.
John A. Benson Jr. (1921–2025) was an American gastroenterologist who led gastroenterology at OHSU and served 16 years as the first president of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
John H. Bryant
John H. Bryant, also known as John Harland Bryant or Jack Bryant, was an American physician who led the US delegation to the 1978 Alma-Ata primary health care conference.
John L.S. Holloman Jr.
John Lawrence Sullivan "Mike" Holloman Jr. (1919–2002) was an American physician and civil-rights activist who founded the Medical Committee for Human Rights and led New York City's public hospitals.
John R. Brinkley
John R. (Romulus/Richard) Brinkley, 1885-1942, American quack, the "goat gland doctor" of Milford, Kansas, radio pioneer behind KFKB and XERA, and two-time Kansas gubernatorial candidate.
John W. Eckstein
John W. Eckstein, also known as John William Eckstein, was an American cardiovascular physician-scientist at the University of Iowa, serving 21 years as dean of its College of Medicine.
Jordan J. Cohen
Jordan J. Cohen is an American physician and nephrologist who served as president of the Association of American Medical Colleges and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1994.
Joseph Bell
Joseph Bell (1837–1911), Edinburgh surgeon, RCSEd President 1887–89, and teacher of Arthur Conan Doyle, whose observational diagnostic method inspired Sherlock Holmes.
Jules Comby
Jules Comby (1853–1947) was a French pediatrician at the Hôpital Trousseau and Hôpital des Enfants-Malades in Paris, known for Comby's sign in measles and his influential pediatric textbooks.
L. Thompson Bowles
L. Thompson Bowles is an American thoracic surgeon and academic medicine leader who was dean of the George Washington University School of Medicine from 1976 to 1988.
Laurence E. Earley
Laurence E. Earley, also known as Laurence Elliott Earley, was an American nephrologist who chaired medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1990.
Leonard N. Boston
Leonard Napoleon Boston (1871–1931) was an American physician at the Medico-Chirurgical College in Philadelphia, known for Boston's sign in Graves' disease and a 1904 laboratory diagnosis textbook.
Leonard W. Cronkhite Jr
Leonard Wolsey Cronkhite Jr. (1919–1996) was an American physician and health-services leader, president of Children's Hospital Boston from 1962 to 1977 and co-describer of Cronkhite–Canada syndrome.
Lionel M. Bernstein
Lionel M. Bernstein (1923–2019) was an American gastroenterologist at the University of Illinois and NIH, best known for the Bernstein test for reflux esophagitis and later a medical informatics leader.
List of medical doctors
List of medical doctors (surnames A–H): notable physicians from Al-Razi, Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Addison, Alzheimer, and Hodgkin to Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith and ECMO pioneer Bartlett, with inclusion criteria, verification registries, women's firsts, and 2025 deaths.
Ludwig Guttmann
Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899–1980), German-born British neurosurgeon, founded the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville and the 1948 Stoke Mandeville Games, forerunner of the Paralympic Games.
Matthew Bush
Matthew L. Bush is an American otolaryngologist and hearing-health researcher who chairs Otolaryngology at the University of Kentucky and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Michael Baden
Michael Baden (born 1934) is an American forensic pathologist, former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, chairman of the JFK assassinations Forensic Pathology Panel, HBO Autopsy host, and expert in cases including Simpson, Brown, and Epstein.
Neal D. Barnard
Neal D. Barnard is an American physician and clinical researcher who heads the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and studies plant-based diets for type 2 diabetes.
Patch Adams
Patch Adams, born Hunter Doherty Adams, is an American physician and social activist who founded the Gesundheit! Institute, campaigning since the 1970s for free healthcare with humor.
Peter Attia
Peter Attia, Canadian-born American physician, founder of Early Medical, host of The Peter Attia Drive podcast, and author of Outlive (2023); known for Medicine 3.0 longevity framework, the four horsemen diseases, and his 2026 resignation from CBS News over Epstein emails.
Robert J. Alpern
Robert J. Alpern is an American nephrologist-scientist who served as dean of Yale School of Medicine from 2004 to 2020 and studies kidney acid transport.
Roberto Canessa
Roberto Canessa (born 1953, Montevideo), Uruguayan pediatric cardiologist; as a 19-year-old medical student survived the 1972 Andes Flight 571 crash and walked out with Nando Parrado; later fetal cardiology specialist and Society of the Snow figure.
Roman W. DeSanctis
Roman W. DeSanctis (1930–2024) was an American cardiologist who spent 59 years at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, founding its first coronary care unit and directing Clinical Cardiology.
Sandip Ghosh
Sandip Ghosh, ex-principal of RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata, resigned after the 2024 trainee doctor rape-murder, was arrested by the CBI on corruption charges, and later got Supreme Court bail.
Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (born 1969, Novi, Michigan) is CNN's chief medical correspondent since 2001, a practicing Emory neurosurgeon, and a 2009 Surgeon General nominee, known for disaster reporting and pandemic communication.
Saul J. Farber
Saul J. Farber, also known as Saul Joseph Farber, was an American nephrologist who chaired NYU's Department of Medicine from 1966 to 2000 and served as its dean.
Sean Conley
Sean Conley is an American osteopathic physician and Navy commander who served as Physician to the President 2018-2021, handling Donald Trump's COVID-19 care and the criticized October 2020 Walter Reed briefings, later joining DHS.
Steven Hatfill
Steven Jay Hatfill, American physician and biodefense researcher, Fort Detrick USAMRIID fellow, wrongly named 'person of interest' in the 2001 anthrax attacks, exonerated in 2008 with a $5.8 million Justice Department settlement, later a Trump COVID adviser.
Thomas P. Almy
Thomas P. Almy (died 2002) was an American gastroenterologist who chaired medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and was a former president of the American Gastroenterological Association.
Vicki Belo
Vicki Belo, also known as Victoria G. Belo, is a Filipino dermatologist, born 1957, who pioneered medical aesthetics in the Philippines; her Belo Medical Group operates 14 clinics.