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Felícia Marie Knaul

Felicia Marie Knaul is a Canadian-Mexican health economist and UCLA distinguished professor who helped design Mexico's Seguro Popular and led the 2017 Lancet Commission on palliative care.

Frederick S. Jaffe

Frederick S. Jaffe (1925–1978) was an American family planning researcher who served as vice president of Planned Parenthood and first president of the Guttmacher Institute.

Gabor David Kelen

Gabor David Kelen, known as Gabe Kelen, is a Canadian-trained American emergency physician who has chaired Johns Hopkins' Department of Emergency Medicine since 1993 and founded its disaster-preparedness office, CEPAR.

Gery Guy

Gery P. Guy is an American health economist at the CDC's Division of Overdose Prevention who studies prescription drug dispensing and the costs of substance use and overdose.

Harvey V. Fineberg

Harvey V. Fineberg is an American physician and health-policy leader who led the Harvard School of Public Health, the Institute of Medicine, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Howard L. Bleich

Howard L. Bleich was an American physician and founder of medical informatics who built PaperChase, the first program letting clinicians search MEDLINE, and won the Morris F. Collen Award.

J. Michael McWilliams

J. Michael McWilliams, also known as John Michael McWilliams, is an American internist and health policy researcher who is a professor at Harvard Medical School studying Medicare.

J. Sanford Schwartz

J. Sanford Schwartz, known as Sandy Schwartz, was an American physician and health services researcher who held a chaired professorship at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jack M. Colwill

Jack M. Colwill is an American family physician and physician-workforce researcher at the University of Missouri, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1989.

James Lubitz

James Lubitz is a health services researcher at CMS and NCHS known for New England Journal of Medicine studies of Medicare spending in the last year of life.

James N. Weinstein

James N. Weinstein is an orthopedic surgeon and health services researcher known for the SPORT back-surgery trials, who led Dartmouth-Hitchcock from 2011 to 2017 and then joined Microsoft.

Jan van Bemmel

Jan van Bemmel, born 1938, is a Dutch medical informatics researcher who held the Netherlands' first university chair in the field, at the Free University Amsterdam.

Jennifer E. DeVoe

Jennifer E. DeVoe is an American family physician and health services researcher at Oregon Health & Science University, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014.

Joan Reede

Joan Reede is an American physician and Harvard Medical School dean who, since 2001, has built more than 20 programs opening medicine and research careers to underrepresented groups.

John E. Wennberg

John E. Wennberg (1935–2024) was an American health services researcher at Dartmouth College who pioneered the study of small area variations in health care delivery.

John Z. Ayanian

John Z. Ayanian is a physician and health policy researcher who has directed the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan since 2012.

Jonathan F. Borus

Jonathan F. Borus is an American psychiatrist and mental-health services researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for his 1981 study of deinstitutionalization.

Jose A. Pagan

Jose A. Pagan, also known as José A. Pagán, is an American health economist who chairs public health policy at NYU and the board of NYC Health + Hospitals.

Joseph L. Dieleman

Joseph L. Dieleman is an American health economist and professor at IHME, University of Washington, who leads research tracking global health spending and development assistance for health.

Karen Davis (health economist)

Karen Davis is an American health economist, professor emerita at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and former president of The Commonwealth Fund.

Karen E. Joynt Maddox

Karen E. Joynt Maddox is an American cardiologist and health services researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, known for large-scale evaluations of Medicare's Bundled Payments programs.

Kathryn Pitkin Derose

Kathryn Pitkin Derose is an American health policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who studies immigrants' health care access and community- and faith-based health interventions.

Kenneth A. Freedberg

Kenneth A. Freedberg is a Massachusetts General Hospital physician and Harvard professor who directs the Medical Practice Evaluation Center and leads the CEPAC cost-effectiveness model of HIV disease.

Kenneth E. Warner

Kenneth E. Warner is an American health economist at the University of Michigan, a leading scholar of tobacco control elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1996.

Kevin A. Schulman

Kevin A. Schulman is an American health services researcher and health economist, a Stanford School of Medicine professor since 2018 known for a 1999 NEJM study.

Kevin G. Volpp

Kevin G. Volpp, also known as Kevin Volpp, is an American physician-scientist who directs CHIBE at the University of Pennsylvania, testing financial incentives for smoking cessation and medication adherence.

Laura A. Petersen

Laura A. Petersen is an American physician and health services researcher who leads the IQuESt center at Baylor College of Medicine and the DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston.

Mark A. Hlatky

Mark A. Hlatky is an American cardiologist and emeritus Stanford professor of health policy and medicine, known for the 2009 Lancet analysis of bypass surgery versus angioplasty.

Marthe R. Gold

Marthe R. Gold is an American physician and health-policy researcher, Logan Professor Emerita at the CUNY School of Medicine and a National Academy of Medicine member.

Mary Wakefield

Mary Wakefield is an American nurse and health policy scholar who served as Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration from 2009 to 2015 and as Acting Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services.