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Peter O. Kohler
Peter O. Kohler is an American physician and endocrinologist, president of Oregon Health Sciences University from 1988 to 2006 and founder of OurPharma, Arkansas's first generic drug company.
Peter Slavin
Peter Slavin is an American physician-executive, president of Massachusetts General Hospital from 2003 to 2021, who became president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in October 2024.
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.
Robert J. Joynt
Robert J. Joynt (1925–2012) was an American neurologist who founded and chaired the University of Rochester's Department of Neurology and later served as its dean.
Robert Liston
Robert Liston (1794–1847) was a Scottish surgeon, famed as the fastest knife of the pre-anaesthetic era, who performed the first operation under ether anaesthesia in Britain on 21 December 1846.
Robert Sataloff
Robert Thayer Sataloff is an American otolaryngologist, laryngologist, and professional singer who chairs otolaryngology at Drexel University College of Medicine and founded professional voice care as a medical discipline.
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.
Roger Kirby
Roger Kirby is a British prostate surgeon who was President of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2020 to 2024 and pioneered robotic prostate surgery in the UK.
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.
Rukhmabai
Rukhmabai Raut (1864-1955), Indian physician and reformer; child bride whose Dadaji Bhikaji v. Rukhmabai case (1884-1888) fueled the Age of Consent Act 1891; second Indian woman to practice Western medicine, first Hindu woman to obtain a legal divorce.
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.
Sandra Lee (dermatologist)
Sandra Lee, aka Dr. Pimple Popper, is an American board-certified dermatologist in Upland, California, whose extraction videos, TLC series, SLMD Skincare line, and book made her a social media celebrity.
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.
Sushruta
Sushruta is the name given to the Suśrutasaṃhitā, a foundational Sanskrit Ayurvedic treatise on surgery often called the Father of Surgery, though recent scholarship treats it as a multi-author work.
Theodor Morell
Theodor Morell (1886–1948), German urologist and Hitler's personal physician from 1936/37 to April 1945; gave over 1,000 injections and 92 medications, built a pharma empire, and died unprosecuted at Tegernsee.
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.
Virginia Apgar
Virginia Apgar (1909-1974), American obstetrical anesthesiologist and first woman full professor at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, created the Apgar Score for newborn assessment and led March of Dimes birth-defects efforts.
Vladimir Zelenko
Vladimir "Zev" Zelenko (1973–2022), American family physician from Kiryas Joel, New York, creator of the Zelenko protocol (hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, zinc) for early outpatient COVID-19; trials found no benefit; later anti-vaccine activist; died of cancer at 48.
W. Eugene Mayberry
W. Eugene Mayberry was an American endocrinologist who led the Mayo Clinic as CEO from 1976 to 1987 and chaired the Presidential Commission on the HIV Epidemic.
William Kennedy Smith
William Kennedy Smith, American physician and Kennedy family member (nephew of JFK), acquitted in 1991 of raping Patricia Bowman in a televised Palm Beach trial; later founded land mine rehabilitation organizations; 2004 civil suit dismissed.
William N. Hubbard Jr.
William N. Hubbard Jr. (1919–2018) was an American physician who served as Dean of the University of Michigan Medical School and President of Upjohn's Pharmaceutical Division.
William Osler
Sir William Osler (1849–1919), Canadian physician, Johns Hopkins founding professor and Oxford Regius Professor; pioneered bedside teaching and the medical residency, wrote Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892), and faced modern criticism over the Komagata Maru remark.
William Price (physician)
William Price was a Welsh physician and Chartist whose 1884 trial established the legality of cremation in Britain; his own cremation in 1893 drew 20,000 spectators.
William R. Felts
William R. Felts, also known as William Robert Felts Jr. (1923–2003), was an American rheumatologist and professor of medicine at George Washington University, known for widely cited 1989 estimates of arthritis prevalence and cost.
Younan Nowzaradan (یونان نوذرادان)
Younan Nowzaradan (یونان نوذرادان), known as Dr. Now, is an Iranian-born Houston bariatric and general surgeon, University of Tehran 1970, Texas Heart Institute fellow, star of TLC's My 600-lb Life since 2012, and author of The Scale Does Not Lie, People Do.