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Moshe Arditi

Moshe Arditi is a physician-scientist in pediatric infectious diseases and immunology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, known for research on Kawasaki disease and innate immune signaling.

Nathan Edwin Brill

Nathan Edwin Brill (1860–1925) was an American physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York who first described Brill–Zinsser disease, the recrudescence of epidemic typhus.

Paul B. Beeson

Paul B. Beeson (Paul Bruce Beeson) was an American physician and infectious-disease researcher who identified endogenous pyrogen, the fever-producing substance later identified as interleukin-1, and chaired medicine departments at Emory, Yale, and Oxford.

Paul J. Wiesner

Paul J. Wiesner (1940–2025) was an American physician and Public Health Service officer whose CDC gonorrhea research shaped national treatment policy from the 1970s onward.

Phillip I. Tarr

Phillip I. Tarr is an American pediatric infectious-disease physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine, known for research on Shiga toxin–producing E. coli and hemolytic-uremic syndrome.

Ralph D. Feigin

Ralph D. Feigin was an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician who led pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital from 1977 until his death in 2008.

Robert B. Nadelman

Robert B. Nadelman (R. B. Nadelman) was an infectious-diseases physician and professor of medicine at New York Medical College for 31 years, known for Lyme disease research.

Robert C. Brunham

Robert C. Brunham is a Canadian infectious disease physician and chlamydia vaccine researcher, professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and former director of the BCCDC.

Rufus Cole

Rufus Cole (1872–1966) was an American physician and the first director of the Rockefeller Institute Hospital, who developed the first effective serum treatment for lobar pneumonia.

Rupert Waterhouse

Rupert Waterhouse (1873–1958) was a British physician who spent his career in Bath and whose 1911 Lancet paper described Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, adrenal failure from bilateral adrenal hemorrhage.

Spotswood L. Spruance

Spotswood L. Spruance is an American infectious-disease physician and epidemiologist, emeritus at the University of Utah, known for defining the natural history of recurrent herpes simplex infections.

Thomas M. Hooton

Thomas M. Hooton is an infectious diseases physician-researcher at the University of Miami and Miami VA, known for research on urinary tract infection in women and IDSA UTI guidelines.

Walter E. Stamm

Walter E. Stamm (1945–2009) was an American infectious diseases physician-scientist at the University of Washington whose research redefined the diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections and clarified chlamydia's role in pelvic inflammatory disease.

William M. McCormack

William M. McCormack (born 1938) is an American infectious diseases physician known for research on sexually transmitted infections, and Chief of Infectious Diseases at SUNY Downstate from 1982 to 2011.