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Jewish Hospital
Jewish Hospital (UofL Health – Jewish Hospital), Louisville, Kentucky hospital founded by the Jewish community, opened 1905; known for hand transplants, AbioCor artificial heart firsts, and all five solid organ transplants.
Jiangsu Province Hospital
Jiangsu Province Hospital (江苏省人民医院), the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, is a Grade III A comprehensive hospital in Nanjing founded in 1936 in Zhenjiang, with 3,685 beds and a National Medical Center bid.
Joanne Lynn
Joanne Lynn (born 1951) is an American physician and health-services researcher who has spent her career measuring and reforming care for seriously ill and frail elderly Americans.
Jody Heymann
Jody Heymann is an American pediatrician and public health researcher at UCLA who founded the WORLD Policy Analysis Center and studies how laws shape family health.
Joe V. Selby
Joe V. Selby is an American family physician and clinical epidemiologist, best known as the first executive director of PCORI and for his diabetes outcomes research at Kaiser Permanente.
Joel J. Alpert
Joel J. Alpert (1930–2013) was an American pediatrician who chaired pediatrics at Boston University for 21 years and pioneered primary care training, leading the American Academy of Pediatrics.
John D. Birkmeyer
John D. Birkmeyer is an American general surgeon and health services researcher, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2006 and Chief Clinical Officer of Sound Physicians.
John E. Affeldt
John E. Affeldt (1918–?) was an American physician who led Rancho Los Amigos' polio respiratory center and later the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals.
John Edward Porter
John Edward Porter was an American lawyer and Republican congressman from Illinois who, chairing the House NIH budget subcommittee, led the 1990s campaign to double NIH funding.
John Eu-Li Wong
John Eu-Li Wong is a Singapore medical oncologist-haematologist and academic leader at the National University of Singapore, who was dean of its medical school from 2003 to 2011.
John H. Moxley III
John H. Moxley III (born 1935) is an American physician and health-policy leader who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and dean of two medical schools.
John M. Balbus
John M. Balbus is an American physician who led the HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity from 2021 to 2025 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
John R. Ball
John R. Ball is an American physician, lawyer, and health care executive who led the American College of Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Pathology.
John R. Lumpkin
John R. Lumpkin is an American physician and public health leader, the first African American trained in emergency medicine, who led the Illinois Department of Public Health for 12 years.
John Snow
John Snow (1813–1858), English physician and anesthesiologist to Queen Victoria, proved cholera was waterborne via the 1854 Broad Street pump investigation and the south London Grand Experiment, founding modern epidemiology.
John W. Bussman
John W. Bussman is an American physician and health-policy official who, as Medical Director of Oregon's Medicaid agency, wrote the 1993 defense of the Oregon Health Plan.
John W. Rowe
John W. Rowe, also known as John Wallis Rowe, is an American geriatrician and health policy professor at Columbia, known for the concept of successful aging and for leading Aetna.
John Wyn Owen
John Wyn Owen (1942–2020) was a Welsh public health leader, first director of NHS Wales, later Director-General of NSW Health and secretary of the Nuffield Trust.
Johns Hopkins Hospital
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, opened May 7, 1889 in Baltimore from Johns Hopkins's $7 million bequest, is the teaching hospital of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1893) and a top-20 U.S. News Honor Roll hospital.
Jonathan Brian Perlin
Jonathan Brian Perlin is an American physician and the seventh President and CEO of the Joint Commission enterprise since 2022, previously Under Secretary for Health at the VA.
Jonathan Van-Tam
Jonathan Van-Tam (JVT), British influenza specialist and Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England 2017-2022, led health protection, the COVID-19 Vaccine Taskforce work, and televised pandemic briefings; later Nottingham Pro-Vice-Chancellor.
Jos University Teaching Hospital
Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) is a federal tertiary teaching hospital in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, established 1981, affiliated with the University of Jos; about 525 beds, led by CMD Dr. Pokop W. Bupwatda.
Joseph Betancourt
Joseph R. Betancourt is an American physician and health equity researcher who became president of The Commonwealth Fund in 2023 after leading equity work at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Josiah D. Rich
Josiah D. Rich is an American infectious disease and addiction medicine physician-researcher at Brown University, known for building Rhode Island's statewide prison medication-assisted treatment program.
Journal of cataract and refractive surgery
Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (JCRS), official monthly peer-reviewed journal of ASCRS and ESCRS; founded 1986, merged with the European Journal of Implant and Refractive Surgery in 1996; published by Wolters Kluwer since 2020.
Journal of internal medicine
Journal of Internal Medicine (JIM), a monthly Wiley peer-reviewed medical journal (print ISSN 0954-6820), publishing internal medicine research since 1989 as the continuation of Acta Medica Scandinavica, with roots in 1863 Sweden.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), monthly peer-reviewed clinical aging research journal, official journal of the American Geriatrics Society since 1953; ISSNs 0002-8614 and 1532-5415, published by Wiley, online-only from 2024, impact factor 4.6.
Joycelyn Elders
Joycelyn Elders (Minnie Lee Jones, born 1933), Arkansas pediatric endocrinologist, state health director under Governor Clinton, and 15th U.S. Surgeon General (1993–1994), the first African American in the role, resigned after remarks on masturbation education.
Judy Mikovits
Judy Mikovits, former Whittemore Peterson Institute research director, led the retracted 2009 Science paper linking XMRV to chronic fatigue syndrome; later an anti-vaccine activist featured in the false-claim Plandemic video.
Julie A. Baldwin
Julie A. Baldwin is a Cherokee Nation citizen and Regents' Professor of Health Sciences at Northern Arizona University, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.