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Henri Coutard

Henri Coutard (1876–1950) was a French radiation therapist at the Curie Institute in Paris who pioneered fractionated radiotherapy, delivering small daily radiation doses over several weeks.

Henri Duret

Henri Duret (1849–1921) was a French surgeon and neurologist who first mapped the arterial territories of the brainstem and cerebral cortex; brainstem microbleeds called Duret haemorrhages bear his name.

Henri Huchard

Henri Huchard (1844–1910) was a French physician at the Hôpitaux Bichat and Necker, a foremost Paris teacher remembered for "maladie de Huchard", continued hypertension causing arteriosclerosis.

Henricus Weve

Henricus Jacobus Marie Weve (1888–1962) was a Dutch ophthalmologist and professor at Utrecht University, ranked among Europe's leading retinal surgeons for improving Gonin's retinal detachment operation and pioneering diathermy.

Henrik Kehlet

Henrik Kehlet (born 1942) is a Danish surgeon and professor at the University of Copenhagen known for creating enhanced recovery after surgery, or fast-track surgery, to shorten recovery.

Henrik Salje

Henrik Salje is an infectious-disease epidemiologist who is Professor of Disease Ecology at the University of Cambridge, known for estimating the global burden of chikungunya and evaluating the Dengvaxia vaccine.

Henrik Toft Sørensen

Henrik Toft Sørensen is a Danish physician and clinical epidemiologist, founder and chair of Aarhus University's Department of Clinical Epidemiology, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Hēnry Buchwald

Henry Buchwald, born in Vienna, is an American surgeon-scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Minnesota known for metabolic surgery and the first implantable infusion pump.

Henry Burger (endocrinologist)

Henry George Burger (1933–2024) was an Australian endocrinologist who directed Prince Henry's Institute in Melbourne and was known for isolating inhibin and developing pulsatile GnRH ovulation treatment.

Henry C. Pitot

Henry C. Pitot (1930–2021) was an American physician-scientist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for multistage liver carcinogenesis and the Min mouse model of intestinal cancer.

Henry D. Janowitz

Henry D. Janowitz (1915–2008) was an American gastroenterologist who led Mount Sinai's Division of Gastroenterology from 1958 to 1983 and helped found the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation.

Henry Edward Shortt

Henry Edward Shortt (1887–1987) was a British protozoologist and Indian Medical Service colonel who proved in 1948, with Cyril Garnham, that malaria parasites develop first in the liver.

Henry F. Chambers

Henry F. Chambers, known as Chip, is an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on Staphylococcus aureus, antimicrobial resistance, and infective endocarditis.

Henry F. McFarland

Henry F. McFarland (1940–2024) was an American neuroimmunologist who spent his career at NINDS, co-founded its Neuroimmunology Branch in 1975, and pioneered MRI for diagnosing and monitoring multiple sclerosis.

Henry Foy

Henry Foy (1900–1991) was a haematologist and nutrition researcher who spent his career studying tropical anemias, running a research laboratory in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1948.

Henry Friesen

Henry George Friesen (1934–2025) was a Canadian endocrinologist from Morden, Manitoba, who first isolated human prolactin and, as MRC president, laid the foundation for the CIHR.

Henry G. Kunkel

Henry G. Kunkel (1916–1983) was an American immunologist who spent his career at Rockefeller University in New York and is known as the father of immunopathology.

Henry Head

Henry Head (1861–1940) was a British neurologist, physician to the London Hospital, and editor of Brain, known for Head's zones, dermatome maps, and studies of sensation and aphasia.

Henry J. Binder

Henry J. Binder (1936–2025) was an American gastroenterologist and intestinal transport physiologist at Yale whose laboratory explained colonic sodium absorption and co-designed a resistant-starch oral rehydration solution for cholera.

Henry J. Mankin

Henry J. Mankin was an American orthopedic surgeon who chaired orthopedic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital for 24 years and created the Mankin grading system for osteoarthritic cartilage.

Henry J.M. Barnett

Henry J.M. Barnett (1922–2016) was a Canadian neurologist who directed the trials establishing modern stroke prevention, including the first randomized aspirin trial and NASCET, and co-founded the Robarts Research Institute.

Henry Krakauer

Henry Krakauer was an American health services researcher affiliated with the Uniformed Services University and Medicare's HCFA, known for influential New England Journal of Medicine papers on outcomes and transplantation.

Henry Krum

Henry Krum (1958–2015) was an Australian clinical pharmacologist at Monash University and The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, known for establishing β-blockers as standard therapy in heart failure.

Henry L. Nadler

Henry L. Nadler was an American pediatrician and medical geneticist who established prenatal diagnosis of hereditary disorders by amniocentesis at Northwestern, then served as dean of Wayne State University's medical school.

Henry M. Kronenberg

Henry M. Kronenberg is an American physician-scientist who leads the Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and is known for cloning parathyroid hormone DNA and its receptor.

Henry M. Lemon

Henry M. Lemon (1915–1997) was an American physician-scientist who studied estrogen metabolism and breast cancer risk, and was the first director of the Eppley Institute in Nebraska.

Henry Masur

Henry Masur is an American infectious disease physician who wrote one of the first papers describing AIDS and leads critical care medicine at the NIH Clinical Center.

Henry Meige

Henry Meige (1866–1940) was a French neurologist of the Charcot school at the Salpêtrière, eponymist of Meige syndrome and co-author of the first book on movement disorders.

Henry Metzger

Henry Metzger (1932–2018) was a German-born American immunologist at NIH who showed how IgE receptor aggregation triggers mast cell activation in allergy, and led NIAMS research.

Henry N. Claman

Henry N. Claman was an American physician-immunologist and allergist who headed allergy and clinical immunology at the University of Colorado for 25 years and discovered thymus–marrow synergism in 1966.