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Allen J. Dietrich
Allen J. Dietrich (1947–2024) was an American family medicine researcher at Dartmouth, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1996 for improving preventive care in primary practices.
Allocation concealment
Allocation concealment is the safeguard in a randomized controlled trial that keeps upcoming treatment assignments hidden from those enrolling participants until allocation is irrevocable, preventing selection bias.
Alonzo Yerby
Alonzo Smythe Yerby (1921–1994) was an American physician and public health administrator who served as New York City's Commissioner of Hospitals and later headed health services administration at Harvard.
ALTERPRONE trial
ALTERPRONE (NCT03719937) was a single-center pilot physiological trial at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart testing 100 g/kg anterior chest wall loading for 3 hours supine as an alternative to prone positioning in moderate-to-severe ARDS; suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Am j trop med hyg
Am J Trop Med Hyg abbreviates The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the ASTMH's monthly peer-reviewed tropical medicine journal, founded 1921, merged into its current form in 1952, online-only since 2023.
Ambulatory care
Ambulatory care, also called outpatient care, is medical care for patients not formally admitted to a hospital bed, ranging from physician offices to surgery centers.
Amelia Mangay-Maglacas
Dr Amelia Mangay-Maglacas is a Filipino public-health nurse-scientist who worked at the World Health Organization on nursing's role in primary health care and infection control.
American Academy of Sleep Medicine
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine is a United States professional society for sleep medicine practitioners, founded in 1975, with over 11,000 members and 2,300 accredited sleep centers.
American Association For Cancer Research
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), founded May 7, 1907, in Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia-based nonprofit with 65,000+ members, ten journals including Cancer Research, and the annual Cancer Progress Report advocating federal cancer research funding.
American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) is a professional society of trauma and acute care surgeons, founded in 1938 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society (ACS) is an American nonprofit founded in 1913 that funds cancer research and supports patients through advocacy, a 24/7 helpline, and lodging programs.
American College of Rheumatology
The American College of Rheumatology (ACR), founded in 1934 as the American Rheumatism Association, is an Atlanta-based professional society of rheumatologists with more than 10,200 members in 2025.
American Dental Association
American Dental Association (ADA), US national dentists' professional association founded August 3, 1859 in Niagara Falls by 26 dentists; governed by a House of Delegates and Board of Trustees; accredits dental education via CODA and publishes JADA.
American Health Care Act of 2017
American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA, H.R. 1628), the House Republican bill to repeal and replace the ACA; passed the House 217-213 on May 4, 2017, cut Medicaid $880 billion per CBO, projected 23-24 million more uninsured, and died in the Senate.
American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society
American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS), founded 1969 in Chicago, is the US specialty society of over 2,500 foot and ankle orthopaedic surgeons, based in Schaumburg, Illinois, providing CME, research grants, journals, and advocacy.
American Public Health Association
American Public Health Association (APHA), founded 1872 by Dr. Stephen Smith in New York City, is a Washington, D.C.-based professional public health organization publishing the American Journal of Public Health and advocating federal health policy.
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), formerly American Society for the Study of Sterility and American Fertility Society, is a US professional society founded 1944 in Chicago; it publishes Fertility and Sterility, sets IVF practice standards, and advocates for fertility care.
American Thoracic Society
The American Thoracic Society (ATS) is an international medical society for respiratory, critical care, and sleep health, founded in 1905 and publishing four peer-reviewed journals.
AMIGOS trial
AMIGOS (Assessment of Multiple Intrauterine Gestations from Ovarian Stimulation) trial: NICHD randomized trial of 900 couples with unexplained infertility comparing letrozole, clomiphene, and gonadotropin with IUI; letrozole lowered multiples versus gonadotropin but also live births (NCT01044862).
Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital
Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) is a 500-bed federal tertiary teaching hospital on Zaria Road, Kano, Nigeria, established August 1988, affiliated with Bayero University Kano, led by CMD Prof. Abdurrahman Abba Sheshe.
AMIRA study
AMIRA study (NCT03413150): observational pharmacodynamic modeling of amiodarone heart rate control in 80 critically ill patients with atrial tachyarrhythmias; 1,348 heart rate observations, published Clinical Pharmacokinetics 2016.
AMP study
AMP study (Adolescent Master Protocol, PHACS; AMP Up, AMP Up Lite): US prospective cohort following youth with perinatally acquired HIV and HIV-exposed uninfected peers, enrolled 2007-2009, studying long-term effects of HIV and antiretroviral therapy.
AMP Up study
AMP Up (Adolescent Master Protocol for Participants 18 Years of Age and Older) is a PHACS prospective cohort study following over 800 young adults with perinatally acquired HIV, plus exposed uninfected comparisons, at 14 US and Puerto Rico sites.
aMYELOIDr study
aMYELOIDr (Austrian Myeloid Registry, AGMT_aMYELOIDr, NCT04438889) is a non-interventional Austrian registry study of MDS, CMML, and AML, sponsored by AGMT, targeting 3,000 patients since 2020 with an optional biobank.
Analytic treatment interruption
An analytic treatment interruption (ATI) is a deliberate, monitored pause of antiretroviral therapy in HIV cure trials, used to measure viral rebound and test interventions.
Andrea A. Anderson
Andrea A. Anderson is an American family physician and health-equity leader at George Washington University who chaired the American Board of Family Medicine and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Andrew B. Bindman
Andrew B. Bindman is an American general internist and health services researcher who has served as Kaiser Permanente's chief medical officer since 2020 and joined the National Academy of Medicine in 2015.
Andrew William Bazemore
Andrew William Bazemore is an American family physician and health services researcher, former director of the Robert Graham Center and a 2016 National Academy of Medicine member.
Ann C. Macaulay
Ann C. Macaulay is a UK-trained Canadian family physician and McGill University professor emerita who pioneered community-based participatory research, leading the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project.
Ann-Louise Kinmonth
Ann-Louise Kinmonth (born 1951) is a British general practitioner and academic who held the Foundation Chair of General Practice at Cambridge from 1997 to 2011, leading trials on diabetes screening.