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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.

Harvey Whiteford

Harvey Whiteford is an Australian psychiatric epidemiologist and University of Queensland professor who leads the mental and substance use disorder work of the Global Burden of Disease studies.

Harvey Williams Cushing

Harvey Williams Cushing (1869–1939) was an American neurosurgeon widely called the father of modern neurological surgery, who described Cushing syndrome and won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize.

Hasan Bazari

Hasan Bazari is an American nephrologist and internist at Massachusetts General Hospital who directed its internal medicine residency program from 1994 to 2014 and wrote NEJM Case Records.

Hashem B. El‐Serag

Hashem B. El-Serag is a Palestinian-born American gastroenterologist at Baylor College of Medicine who studies liver cancer and served as president of the American Gastroenterological Association in 2019.

Hassan Jumaa

Hassan Jumaa (born 1965 in Sanamein, Syria) is a molecular immunologist who has headed the Institute of Immunology at the University Hospital of Ulm since 2013.

Haydar Frangoul

Haydar Frangoul is a pediatric hematologist at Sarah Cannon in Nashville who led the pivotal clinical trials of exa-cel, a CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease and thalassemia.

Heather Allore

Heather Allore is an American biostatistician at Yale School of Medicine known for gerontological biostatistics and studies of disability, falls, and dementia in older adults.

Heather Berlin

Heather Berlin is a cognitive neuroscientist and clinical psychologist at Mount Sinai who studies the neural basis of impulsivity, compulsivity, and consciousness, and co-hosts StarTalk.

Heather Pidcoke

Heather F. Pidcoke is an American transfusion-medicine and trauma-research scientist who worked at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, received a 2013 Presidential Early Career Award, and helped shape care of bleeding trauma patients.

Heather Zar

Heather Zar is a South African pediatric pulmonologist and epidemiologist who chairs pediatrics at Red Cross Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, and studies childhood respiratory disease.

Héctor H. García

Héctor H. García, also known as Hector H. Garcia, is a Peruvian physician-scientist who studies cysticercosis, a leading cause of epilepsy, and leads research in Lima.

Hedvig Hricak

Hedvig Hricak (Hričak), born 1946 in Zagreb, is a Croatian-born American radiologist who chaired Radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 1999 to 2023.

Hedy L. Kindler

Hedy L. Kindler, also known as Hedy Lee Kindler, is an American medical oncologist at the University of Chicago known for mesothelioma research and the POLO pancreatic cancer trial.

Hei Sook Sul

Hei Sook Sul is a metabolic physiologist, professor and chair of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology at UC Berkeley, known for discovering Pref-1 and AdPLA's roles in fat-cell biology.

Heidi E. Hamm

Heidi E. Hamm is an American pharmacologist at Vanderbilt University who solved the first crystal structures of G proteins and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Heidi Johansen‐Berg

Heidi Johansen-Berg is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford whose neuroimaging research showed that white matter changes structurally in response to learning and training.

Heidi Phillips

Heidi S. Phillips is an American neuroscientist at Genentech in South San Francisco, known for co-authoring the 1994 GDNF paper and the 2006 molecular classification of high-grade glioma.

Heikki Joensuu

Heikki Joensuu (born 1956) is a Finnish oncologist and cancer researcher, professor at the University of Helsinki from 1994 to 2019, known for the FinHer breast cancer trial and adjuvant imatinib trials in GIST.

Heikki Peltola

Heikki Peltola is a Finnish pediatric infectious-diseases researcher at the University of Helsinki, known for Hib vaccine trials in about 90,000 infants and Finland's two-dose MMR program.

Heikki V. Huikuri

Heikki V. Huikuri, born 1952, is a Finnish cardiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Oulu known for research on heart-rate variability and sudden cardiac death.

Heiko Braak

Heiko Braak (born 1937) is a German neuroanatomist, professor at the University of Ulm, whose Braak stages of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease are used worldwide.

Heiko Lickert

Heiko Lickert is a German developmental and stem cell biologist who studies pancreatic beta cells and directs the Institute of Diabetes and Regeneration Research at Helmholtz Munich since 2011.

Heimo Ehmke

Heimo Ehmke is a German physician and physiologist at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, where he directs the Institute of Cellular and Integrative Physiology and studies hypertension and cardiac arrhythmias.

Hein G. Gooszen

Hein G. Gooszen, born 1948 in Zeist, is a Dutch gastrointestinal surgeon who led the PANTER and PROPATRIA pancreatitis trials and was professor of surgery at Utrecht.

Hein J.J. Wellens

Hein J.J. Wellens (Hein J. Wellens) was a Dutch cardiologist, born 1935 and died 2020, who was a founder of clinical cardiac electrophysiology and built Maastricht's arrhythmia service into an internationally recognized center.

Heine H. Hansen

Heine H. Hansen (1938–2011) was a Danish medical oncologist in Copenhagen who devoted his career to lung cancer and helped found the IASLC and ESMO.

Heiner Wedemeyer

Heiner Wedemeyer, born 1967 and recorded as Hans-Heinrich Wedemeyer, is a German hepatologist and director of gastroenterology at Hannover Medical School known for hepatitis D research and bulevirtide's development.

Heinrich Adolf Gottron

Heinrich Adolf Gottron (1890–1974) was a German dermatologist who described Gottron's papules and sign, the pathognomonic skin lesions of dermatomyositis, and held chairs at Breslau and Tübingen.

Heinrich Albert Johne

Heinrich Albert Johne (1839–1910) was a German veterinary anatomist and professor at the Dresden veterinary school who first described Johne's disease, or paratuberculosis, in cattle in 1895.