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IRAC study
IRAC study: the INCMNSZ Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort (NCT03389711), an observational early rheumatoid arthritis cohort at Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, begun 2004; distinct from Spitzer's IRAC camera and IRAC insecticide classes.
IRADIENT study
IRADIENT (Genomic Instability in Vascular Surgeons), ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04363190, a completed 2020-registered observational study by Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid on chronic low-dose radiation effects in vascular surgeons; no results posted.
Iris R. Shannon
Iris R. Shannon, also known as Iris Reed Shannon, was an American public health nurse in Chicago and the first African American nurse elected president of the American Public Health Association.
Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital
Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital is a federal government teaching hospital in Irrua, Edo State, Nigeria, and a national center of excellence for managing Lassa fever.
IRYSS-COPD study
IRYSS-COPD Appropriateness Study (IRYSS-CAS): Spanish prospective cohort (16 hospitals, 2008-2010, 2,877 patients) validating RAND/UCLA explicit criteria for hospital admission in COPD exacerbations.
ISMV study
ISMV study: International Study of Mechanical Ventilation, VENTILA group observational cohorts of ventilated ICU patients run every six years since 1998; fourth edition NCT02731898 (2016), primary outcome ICU mortality.
Isolation Hospitals
An isolation hospital is a hospital or dedicated facility built to treat people with infectious diseases while preventing transmission to others, emerging in nineteenth-century Britain as fever hospitals.
Italian plague of 1629–1631
The Italian plague of 1629–1631, also known as the Great Plague of Milan, was a bubonic plague epidemic that killed about a third of northern Italy's population.
J. Alexander McMahon
J. Alexander McMahon (1921–2008) was an American lawyer and health care executive who served as president and CEO of the American Hospital Association for fourteen years.
J. Marc Overhage
J. Marc Overhage is an American physician-informatician who created the Indiana Network for Patient Care, a community-wide health information exchange, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2010.
J. Nwando Olayiwola
J. Nwando Olayiwola is an American family physician and health equity researcher, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022 and a Humana health equity executive.
Jacob Carr
Jacob L. Carr is an American mining safety engineer who won a 2013 PECASE award at NIOSH's Pittsburgh division for proximity detection and intelligent lockout/tagout systems protecting miners.
JAMA
JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), founded 1883 by the American Medical Association with Nathan Davis as first editor, is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal, flagship of the 13-journal JAMA Network, with impact factor 65.4 and editor in chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo.
James A. Tulsky
James A. Tulsky is an American general internist and palliative care researcher known for studying doctor-patient communication and measuring the quality of dying and serious-illness care.
James E. Strain
James E. Strain (1923–2020) was a Denver pediatrician and the only person to serve the American Academy of Pediatrics as both president and executive director.
James J. Mongan
James J. Mongan was an American physician-executive and health policy leader. He served as CEO of Partners HealthCare System and was a professor at Harvard Medical School.
James Lind
James Lind (1716–1794), Scottish naval surgeon, ran the 1747 HMS Salisbury trial of six scurvy treatments on 12 sailors, showed citrus cured scurvy, and published A Treatise of the Scurvy (1753).
James M. Perrin
James M. Perrin is an American pediatrician and child health services researcher at Harvard Medical School who served as president of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2014.
James O. Malley
James O. Malley is an American structural engineer specializing in seismic design and retrofitting of steel buildings, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
James William Mold
James William Mold is an American family physician and geriatrician who founded the Oklahoma Physicians Resource/Research Network and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2008.
Jan de Maeseneer
Jan de Maeseneer is a Belgian general practitioner and emeritus professor of family medicine at Ghent University, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
Janine Austin Clayton
Janine Austin Clayton is an American ophthalmologist who has led the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health since 2012 and created its sex-as-a-biological-variable policy.
Jay Lemery
Jay Lemery is an American emergency medicine physician and wilderness medicine specialist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.
Jeffrey Kahn
Jeffrey Kahn is an American bioethicist who has directed the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics since 2016 and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Jeffrey R. Balser
Jeffrey R. Balser is an American physician-scientist who served as President and CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and dean of its School of Medicine, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2008.
Jejungwon
Jejungwon (제중원) was Korea's first Western-style hospital, opened in Seoul in 1885 with the missionary physician Horace Newton Allen as its head and later developing into Severance Hospital of Yonsei University.
Jennifer L. Howse
Jennifer L. Howse is a public health leader who led the March of Dimes from 1990 for more than two decades, launching its 2003 Prematurity Campaign.
Jeremiah A. Barondess
Jeremiah A. Barondess is an American general internist and population-health scholar, professor of clinical Epidemiology at Columbia's Mailman School and president emeritus of the New York Academy of Medicine.
Jerome Adams
Jerome Adams, American anesthesiologist, 20th U.S. Surgeon General (2017-2021) under Trump, earlier Indiana state health commissioner (2014-2017); issued 2018 naloxone advisory, led COVID-19 messaging, resigned at Biden's request, now Purdue professor.
Jessica Ancker
Jessica S. Ancker is an American biomedical informatics and health communication scientist who is a professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.