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Geoffrey Edelsten
Geoffrey Walter Edelsten (1943-2021), Australian medical entrepreneur and former GP, founder of Preventicare and 1980s bulk-billing superclinics, first private owner of the Sydney Swans, later deregistered, jailed, and bankrupted.
Geoffrey Keynes
Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (1887–1982), English surgeon, brother of economist John Maynard Keynes; pioneer of blood transfusion, radium treatment of breast cancer, and thymectomy, and a leading bibliographer and book collector.
Geographic tongue
Geographic tongue, or benign migratory glossitis, is a benign inflammatory tongue condition with migrating map-like patches from loss of filiform papillae, affecting about 1–3% of adults and associated with psoriasis (OR 3.53).
Geophagia
Geophagia (geophagy), deliberate eating of earth, soil, or clay, a form of pica; documented since Hippocrates, most common in pregnant women and children, best explained as protection from pathogens and toxins, with risks of anemia, obstruction, and heavy metal exposure.
Georg Bonne
Georg Bonne (1859–1945) was a German country doctor in Klein-Flottbek and Nienstedten on the Elbe, known as the "Engel von Nienstedten" and a lifelong campaigner for the river's cleanliness.
George A. Macones
George A. Macones is an American maternal-fetal medicine specialist who chairs the Department of Women's Health at Dell Medical School and serves as president of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
George A.O. Alleyne
George A.O. Alleyne is a Barbadian physician and public health leader who directed the Pan American Health Organization from 1995 to 2003, championing health equity.
George D. Lundberg
George D. Lundberg is an American pathologist and medical editor who led JAMA from 1982 to 1999 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1992.
George D. Zuidema
George D. Zuidema (1928–2020) was an American academic surgeon who served as surgeon-in-chief at Johns Hopkins for 20 years, then led the University of Michigan medical center.
George Demiris
George Demiris is a Greek-born biomedical and health informatics scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on smart homes, telehealth, and support for older adults and family caregivers.
George E. Thibault
George E. Thibault is an American physician and Harvard Medical School professor, best known as president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation from 2008 to 2018.
George Emerson Brewer
George Emerson Brewer (1861–1939) was an American surgeon and urologist, a professor of clinical surgery at Columbia and a colonel directing a U.S. Army base hospital in France during World War I.
George F. Sheldon
George F. Sheldon (1934–2013) was an American academic surgeon who chaired surgery at UNC Chapel Hill and served as the 79th president of the American College of Surgeons.
George G. Reader
George G. Reader (1919–2005) was an American physician and public health educator who chaired Cornell's Department of Public Health from 1972 to 1992 and advised on Medicare.
George I. Lythcott
George I. Lythcott (1918–1995) was an American pediatrician and public health administrator who led smallpox eradication in West Africa and served as an Assistant Surgeon General.
George J. Hayes
George J. Hayes (George Joseph Hayes, 1918–2002) was a United States Army neurosurgeon who led neurosurgery at Walter Reed, trained 12 neurosurgeons, and retired in 1974 as a major general.
George J. Isham
George J. Isham is an American physician executive who served as Chief Health Officer of HealthPartners in Minnesota and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014.
George Lister
George Lister is an American pediatrician-researcher, the Jean McLean Wallace Professor of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, known for the National Infant Sleep Position studies on SIDS prevention.
George Tiller
George Tiller (1941-2009), Wichita, Kansas physician and medical director of Women's Health Care Services, one of few US providers of late-term abortions; survived a 1986 clinic bombing and 1993 shooting, was acquitted in 2009, then murdered by Scott Roeder.
Georges-Fernand Widal
Georges-Fernand Widal (1862–1929) was a French physician and bacteriologist at Hôpital Cochin in Paris who introduced the typhoid agglutination test in 1896 and helped immunize the French army against typhoid.
Georgios Papanikolaou (Γεώργιος Νικολάου Παπανικολάου)
Georgios Papanikolaou (Γεώργιος Νικολάου Παπανικολάου), also George Nicholas Papanicolaou, Greek physician (1883–1962) who invented the Pap smear; reported vaginal-smear cancer diagnosis in 1928, validated it with Traut in 1943, and cut cervical cancer mortality.
Gepirone
Gepirone (EXXUA), a 5-HT1A receptor agonist of the azapirone class and buspirone analog, is an extended-release antidepressant approved by FDA on September 22, 2023 for major depressive disorder in adults after a two-decade regulatory history.
Gepotidacin
Gepotidacin (Blujepa, GSK2140944), a first-in-class triazaacenaphthylene antibiotic inhibiting DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV, FDA-approved in 2025 for uncomplicated UTI in females and urogenital gonorrhea.
Gerald D. Laubach
Gerald D. Laubach was an organic chemist and pharmaceutical executive who rose from Pfizer's steroid chemistry labs to become president, leading the company through the 1970s and early 1980s.
Gerald E. Thomson
Gerald E. Thomson was an American nephrologist and Columbia professor who directed one of the nation's first large dialysis units and led national medical boards.
Gerald T. Perkoff
Gerald T. Perkoff (1926–2011) was an American physician and health services researcher, a University of Missouri professor elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1978.
Gerard E. Francisco
Gerard E. Francisco is an American physiatrist who chairs physical medicine and rehabilitation at UTHealth Houston, leads TIRR Memorial Hermann, and studies recovery after neurologic injury.
Gerardo Moreno
Gerardo Moreno is an American family-medicine physician and health-services researcher who chairs UCLA's Department of Family Medicine and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Geriatric Anesthesia
Geriatric anesthesia: perioperative anesthetic care of older adults. Elderly patients need reduced anesthetic doses (about two-thirds at age 80), face 9-44% delirium risk, and randomized trials show spinal and general anesthesia are broadly equivalent for hip fracture surgery.
Geriatric Depression Scale
The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) is a self-report questionnaire of yes/no items used to screen for depression in older adults, published in 1982 with a 30-item long form and a 15-item short form.