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Robert James Mash
Robert James Mash, known as Bob Mash, is a South African family physician and Distinguished Professor at Stellenbosch University who helped build family medicine across sub-Saharan Africa.
Robert L. Goldenberg
Robert L. Goldenberg is an American maternal-fetal medicine physician-scientist, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University, known for research on stillbirth and preterm birth.
Robert R. Redfield
Robert R. Redfield, virologist and 18th CDC director (2018-2021), HIV researcher at Walter Reed and University of Maryland; later prominent lab-leak advocate for COVID-19 origins.
Robert Rayford
Robert Rayford (1953–1969), St. Louis teenager, first known HIV/AIDS case in the United States; died 1969, confirmed by 1987 testing of preserved blood samples showing HIV proteins.
Robert Steven Galvin
Robert Steven Galvin is an American physician-executive known as a founder of value-based purchasing, formerly General Electric's top health care executive and CEO of Blackstone's Equity Healthcare.
Robert William Philip
Robert William Philip (1857–1939) was a Scottish physician who founded the world's first tuberculosis dispensary in Edinburgh in 1887; his Edinburgh Scheme became national policy in Britain after 1906.
Robin Purdy Newhouse
Robin Purdy Newhouse is a nurse scientist and dean of the Indiana University School of Nursing from 2015 to 2024, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.
Rodrigo V. Guerrero
Rodrigo V. Guerrero, born Rodrigo Guerrero Velasco in 1938, is a Colombian physician and epidemiologist who treated urban violence as a public health problem as mayor of Cali, winning the first Roux Prize in 2014.
Roger A. Rosenblatt
Roger A. Rosenblatt (1945–2014) was an American family physician and health-services researcher at the University of Washington who founded the WWAMI Rural Health Research Center and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1987.
Roger J. Bulger
Roger J. Bulger (1933–2025) was an American physician, infectious-disease researcher, and academic health leader who led the Institute of Medicine, UTHealth Houston, and the Association of Academic Health Centers.
ROMAN trial (NCT03903744)
ROMAN (NCT03903744), the Roman Syncope Study, is a completed randomized open-label trial by Piotr Kulakowski in Warsaw testing cardioneuroablation versus standard treatment in refractory vasovagal syncope, with two-year syncope burden follow-up.
Ron Woodroof
Ron Woodroof (1950–1992), Dallas electrician diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, founded the Dallas Buyers Club in 1988, smuggling non-FDA-approved drugs from Mexico and Japan; subject of the 2013 film Dallas Buyers Club.
Ronald Bayer
Ronald Bayer is Professor Emeritus of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, known for work on the ethics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and tobacco control.
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the UCLA Health adult teaching hospital in Westwood, Los Angeles; founded 1955, renamed 2008; Level 1 trauma center, seismic-resistant I.M. Pei building, 520 beds at opening, Resnick psychiatric hospital relocating 2026.
Roy E. Rowe
Roy E. Rowe (c. 1928–2008) was a British concrete engineer who led the UK Cement and Concrete Association and was a US National Academy of Engineering Foreign Associate.
Royal Children's Hospital
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is Victoria's major specialist paediatric hospital in Parkville, Melbourne, founded in 1870 as the Melbourne Free Hospital for Sick Children by Drs William Smith and John Singleton, noted for its Good Friday Appeal, Murdoch Children's Research Institute partnership, and paediatric trauma and emergency services.
Royal College of Surgeons of England
The Royal College of Surgeons of England is a professional body and charity that trains, examines, and sets standards for surgeons and dental professionals in the UK and internationally.
Royal Earlswood Hospital
Royal Earlswood Hospital, originally the Asylum for Idiots (1847) and Earlswood Asylum, Redhill, Surrey, was Britain's first purpose-built institution for people with learning disabilities, where John Langdon Down identified Down's syndrome in 1866; closed 1997.
Royal London Hospital
Royal London Hospital: teaching hospital in Whitechapel, London, founded 1740 as the London Infirmary, granted royal title 1990, Major Trauma Centre for north east London and Essex, part of Barts Health NHS Trust since 2012.
Royal Marsden Hospital
Royal Marsden Hospital, London and Sutton, founded 1851 by Dr William Marsden as the Free Cancer Hospital; first hospital in the world dedicated to cancer study and treatment, now an NHS Foundation Trust partnered with the Institute of Cancer Research.
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA), Camperdown, Sydney: principal referral teaching hospital of the University of Sydney, opened 1882 after the 1868 assassination attempt on Prince Alfred; first teaching hospital in NSW; $940 million redevelopment with a 15-storey East Tower due 2028/29.
Royal Society of Medicine
The Royal Society of Medicine is a London membership organization and UK charity advancing health across medical specialties, founded in 1805 and based at 1 Wimpole Street, Marylebone.
rPMS-Foot trial
rPMS-Foot (NCT07237321) is a University of Ljubljana randomized trial testing 12 weeks of repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation of foot invertor muscles to raise medial longitudinal arch height and strength in adults with flat feet.
RSEnTrail trial
RSEnTrail (NCT07616310) is a recruiting randomized non-inferiority trial from Zhejiang University comparing rectosigmoid resection versus rectosigmoid-preserving lesion excision in pelvic cytoreductive surgery for advanced ovarian cancer.
Ruby P. Hearn
Ruby P. Hearn is an American health philanthropy executive who was a vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, directing national child and adolescent health programs.
Ruijin Hospital
Ruijin Hospital (瑞金医院, formerly Guangci Hospital 广慈医院), founded 1907 in Shanghai, is a Grade 3A teaching hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, a National Medical Center known for the Shanghai method for leukemia and burn-shock fluid formula.
Rumah Sakit Umum Pusat Sanglah Denpasar
RSUP Sanglah Denpasar, since 7 July 2022 RSUP Prof. Dr. I.G.N.G. Ngoerah, is Bali's largest Class A Ministry of Health teaching and referral hospital, founded 1959, serving Bali, NTB, and NTT.
Rural Hospitals
Rural hospitals, also called Hospitals, Rural (MeSH), are hospitals located in rural areas; in the US, 1,797 of 5,121 community hospitals are rural, facing low volumes, payment shortfalls, closures, and mixed quality evidence.
Ruth Pfau
Ruth Pfau (1929–2017), German physician and Daughters of the Heart of Mary sister, called Pakistan's Mother Teresa; founded Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre Karachi in 1960 and led Pakistan's National Leprosy Control Programme, achieving WHO leprosy control in 1996.
Ryan White
Ryan White (1971–1990) was an Indiana teenager with hemophilia who contracted AIDS from contaminated Factor VIII treatment, was barred from school in Kokomo, and became the namesake of the Ryan White CARE Act, the largest federal HIV care program.