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Robert Elliot (surgeon)
Robert Henry Elliot (1864–1936) was a British ophthalmic surgeon and Indian Medical Service colonel who introduced sclero-corneal trephining for glaucoma while superintendent of the Government Ophthalmic Hospital, Madras.
Robert G. Petersdorf
Robert G. Petersdorf (1926–2006) was an American infectious-diseases physician who chaired medicine at the University of Washington and served as AAMC president from 1986 to 1994.
Robert Graham (physician)
Robert Graham is an American family physician who led the American Academy of Family Physicians from 1985 to 2000 and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1990.
Robert H. Bartlett
Robert H. Bartlett (1939–2025) was an American surgeon at the University of Michigan who developed ECMO into a practical treatment, earning the title "father of ECMO."
Robert H. Ebert
Robert H. Ebert, born Robert Higgins Ebert (1914–1996), was an American physician-investigator who served as dean of Harvard Medical School from 1966 to 1977 and led the Milbank Memorial Fund.
Robert H. Moser
Robert H. Moser, or Robert Harlan Moser (1923–2013), was an American Army internist, a pioneer writer on drug-induced disease, and JAMA's editor-in-chief from 1973 to 1975.
Robert Hernandez
Robert Hernandez is an American electrical and computer engineer who worked on heavyweight torpedoes at NUWC Division Newport and won a Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
Robert J. Alpern
Robert J. Alpern is an American nephrologist-scientist who served as dean of Yale School of Medicine from 2004 to 2020 and studies kidney acid transport.
Robert J. Haggerty
Robert J. Haggerty (1925–2017) was an American pediatrician who chaired pediatrics at the University of Rochester and coined the "new morbidity" of childhood, covering mental health and chronic conditions.
Robert J. Joynt
Robert J. Joynt (1925–2012) was an American neurologist who founded and chaired the University of Rochester's Department of Neurology and later served as its dean.
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 Knox (surgeon)
Robert Knox (1791–1862), Scottish anatomist and ethnologist, leading Edinburgh anatomy teacher whose career was ruined when Burke and Hare sold 16 murder victims' bodies to his school; exonerated but ostracized, later a race-science proponent in London.
Robert L. Ferris
Robert L. Ferris is an American head and neck surgical oncologist who directs UNC Lineberger Cancer Center and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.
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 Liston
Robert Liston (1794–1847) was a Scottish surgeon, famed as the fastest knife of the pre-anaesthetic era, who performed the first operation under ether anaesthesia in Britain on 21 December 1846.
Robert M. Friedlander
Robert M. Friedlander is an American neurosurgeon, chair of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh since 2010, known for caspase research and cerebrovascular surgery.
Robert Merritt Stein
Robert Merritt Stein (1937–2019) was an American electronics engineer at Raytheon who worked on missile defense systems and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
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 Sapolsky
Robert M. Sapolsky, Stanford neuroendocrinologist and primatologist; glucocorticoid cascade hypothesis, Kenyan baboon rank-stress studies, Behave and Determined, MacArthur Fellow, free-will denial debate.
Robert Sataloff
Robert Thayer Sataloff is an American otolaryngologist, laryngologist, and professional singer who chairs otolaryngology at Drexel University College of Medicine and founded professional voice care as a medical discipline.
Robert Stanton Ward
Robert Stanton Ward is an American bioengineer who founded ExThera Medical and invented the Seraph 100 blood filter, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.
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 W. Neumar
Robert W. Neumar is an American physician-scientist in emergency medicine and resuscitation science, a professor at the University of Michigan elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015.
Robert Wadlow
Robert Wadlow (1918–1940), the Alton Giant, tallest verified human ever at 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 in); pituitary gigantism from untreated growth-hormone excess; died at 22 from an infected brace blister.
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.
Robert Wood Johnson I
Robert Wood Johnson I (1845–1910), American pharmacist and businessman, co-founded Johnson & Johnson in 1886 with brothers James Wood and Edward Mead, served as its first president 1887–1910, and pioneered mass-produced sterile surgical dressings after hearing Joseph Lister at the 1876 Centennial Exposition.
Roberto Canessa
Roberto Canessa (born 1953, Montevideo), Uruguayan pediatric cardiologist; as a 19-year-old medical student survived the 1972 Andes Flight 571 crash and walked out with Nando Parrado; later fetal cardiology specialist and Society of the Snow figure.
Roberts syndrome
Roberts syndrome (RBS, pseudothalidomide syndrome) is a rare autosomal recessive ESCO2-spectrum disorder with prenatal growth restriction, symmetric limb reduction, craniofacial anomalies, and premature centromere separation on karyotype.
Robin Patel
Robin Patel, M.D., is a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases physician and clinical microbiologist directing the Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory; known for biofilm research, periprosthetic joint infection diagnostics, antibiotic resistance, and ASM presidency.