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Richard J. McManus

Richard J. McManus is a British general practitioner and professor of primary care research whose hypertension self-monitoring trials changed national guidelines; he became Dean of Brighton and Sussex Medical School in 2024.

Richard S. Rivlin

Richard S. Rivlin is an American physician-scientist in internal medicine and nutrition who studied vitamin B2 metabolism and later built a research program on garlic compounds as potential cancer chemopreventive agents.

Roger Chou

Roger Chou is a physician-researcher in evidence-based medicine and pain management at Oregon Health & Science University, director of its Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center since 2012.

Roswell W. Phillips

Roswell W. Phillips was an American internal-medicine physician-scientist with the Department of Veterans Affairs, known for 1953 to 1956 papers showing cortisone reverses the hypercalcemia and kidney damage of sarcoidosis.

Scott H. Podolsky

Scott H. Podolsky is an American physician and historian of medicine, professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for the History of Medicine since 2006.

Susan W. Tolle

Susan W. Tolle is an American physician and medical ethicist who directed OHSU's Center for Ethics in Health Care from 1989 to 2023 and led the POLST end-of-life program.

Theodore Caldwell Janeway

Theodore Caldwell Janeway (1872–1917) was an American physician who held Johns Hopkins' first full-time professorship of medicine and made blood-pressure measurement a routine part of practice.

Thomas Bodenheimer

Thomas Bodenheimer is an American general internist and health services researcher at UC San Francisco known for his New England Journal of Medicine analyses of US health care.

Thomas H. Gallagher

Thomas H. Gallagher is an American general internist and patient-safety researcher at the University of Washington, known for research on disclosing medical errors and Communication-and-Resolution Programs.

Thomas L. Schwenk

Thomas L. Schwenk is an American family medicine physician and researcher on physician depression and well-being who served as Dean of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine from 2011 to 2021.

Timothy J Wilt

Timothy J Wilt is an American general internist and health services researcher at the Minneapolis VA and University of Minnesota, known for leading the PIVOT prostate cancer trial.

Trisha Greenhalgh

Trisha Greenhalgh, also published as Trish Greenhalgh, is a British doctor and academic, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at Oxford since 2015, known for evidence-based medicine.

Victor Vertes

Victor Vertes (1927–2014) was an American physician and researcher who led medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, for over 25 years and helped develop the OPTIFAST diet program.

Wendy Levinson

Wendy Levinson is a Canadian general internist at the University of Toronto who founded Choosing Wisely Canada and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2014.

William Ewart (physician)

William Ewart (1848–1929) was an English physician at St George's Hospital, London, remembered for describing Ewart's sign, an area of dullness and bronchial breathing at the left lung base in pericardial effusion.

Wishwa N. Kapoor

Wishwa N. Kapoor, also published as Wishwa Kapoor, is an American general internist at the University of Pittsburgh known for research that reshaped how physicians evaluate syncope, or fainting.