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Henry N. Ginsberg

Henry N. Ginsberg is an American physician-scientist at Columbia University known for research on apoB lipoproteins, insulin resistance, and atherosclerosis, and for leading the ACCORD Lipid trial.

Henry P. Close

Henry P. Close was an American pulmonary physician who served as Chief of the Medical Service at the Philadelphia VA Hospital and taught clinical medicine at Temple University.

Henry R. Halperin

Henry R. Halperin is a cardiologist and biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, known for the 2017 study showing MRI is safe for patients with cardiac devices.

Henry R. Shinefield

Henry R. Shinefield (born 1925) is an American pediatrician and vaccine researcher who was chief of pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco and co-developed its Vaccine Study Center.

Henry S. Kaplan

Henry S. Kaplan (1918–1984) was an American radiation oncologist and cancer biologist at Stanford who developed the first medical linear accelerator in the Western hemisphere and helped make Hodgkin's disease curable.

Henry Sherwood Lawrence

Henry Sherwood Lawrence, known as H. Sherwood Lawrence, was an American immunologist at New York University who discovered transfer factor in 1949 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.

Henry T. Lynch

Henry T. Lynch, also known as Henry Lynch, was an American cancer geneticist at Creighton University who established that common cancers can be inherited; Lynch syndrome is named after him.

Heo Jun

Heo Jun (허준, 1539–1615) was a Joseon-dynasty court physician who rose to head of the royal clinic and compiled the Donguibogam, Korea's representative traditional medical text.

Heping Zhang

Heping Zhang is a Chinese American biostatistician who directs Yale's Collaborative Center for Statistics in Science and led the 2014 letrozole trial that changed PCOS infertility treatment.

Herbert A. Selenkow

Herbert A. Selenkow (1923–2007) was an American endocrinologist and Harvard associate professor who directed the Thyroid Laboratory at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston for twenty years.

Herbert B. Peterson

Herbert B. Peterson is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and reproductive health epidemiologist, a distinguished professor at UNC who spent 20 years at the CDC defining the risks of tubal sterilization.

Herbert Benson

Herbert Benson (1935–2022) was an American cardiologist at Harvard Medical School who defined the relaxation response, the counterpart of fight-or-flight, and wrote the 1975 bestseller The Relaxation Response.

Herbert Budka

Herbert Budka (born 1946) is an Austrian neuropathologist, professor at the Medical University of Vienna, known for work on HIV brain pathology and prion diseases.

Herbert E. Kaufman

Herbert E. Kaufman, also known as H E Kaufman, was an American ophthalmologist who established idoxuridine, the first effective drug treatment for a viral eye infection.

Herbert F. Oettgen

Herbert F. Oettgen (1923–2023) was a German-born tumor immunologist who spent his career at Memorial Sloan Kettering, founding its Division of Applied Immunology in 1970 and pioneering cancer immunotherapy.

Herbert Jasper

Herbert Henri Jasper (1906–1999) was a Canadian neuroscientist who helped found clinical neurophysiology, confirmed the human EEG in North America, and led the Montreal Neurological Institute's EEG laboratories.

Herbert Kleber

Herbert D. Kleber (1934-2018), American psychiatrist and addiction treatment pioneer; founded Yale's Drug Dependence Unit, ran first clonidine trial, ONDCP deputy director under Bush, co-founded Center on Addiction, Columbia professor.

Herbert L. Abrams

Herbert L. Abrams was an American radiologist at Stanford and Harvard who wrote Angiography (1961) and critiqued imaging overuse, sharing the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize through IPPNW.

Herbert L. Bonkovsky

Herbert L. Bonkovsky is an American hepatologist known for developing the first heme therapy for acute porphyria attacks and Professor Emeritus at Wake Forest School of Medicine.

Herbert L. DuPont

Herbert L. DuPont is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at UTHealth Houston whose research on travelers' diarrhea, E. coli, and Cryptosporidium shaped diarrheal disease treatment worldwide.

Herbert L. Needleman

Herbert Leroy Needleman, an American pediatrician and researcher, showed that low-level lead exposure damages children's intelligence, leading to the ban of lead in U.S. gasoline and paint.

Herbert M. Pinedo

Herbert M. Pinedo, known in Dutch medicine as Bob Pinedo, is a Dutch medical oncologist and professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam who pioneered bench-to-bedside cancer research.

Herbert Mescon

Herbert Mescon (1919–1985) was an American dermatologist who built and chaired the dermatology department at Boston University School of Medicine from 1952 to 1984, known for research on skin pigmentation.

Herbert S. Strauss

Herbert S. Strauss was an American physician-scientist in hematology who in the 1960s defined factor VIII inhibitors in hemophilia A and the clinical picture of von Willebrand's disease.

Herbert Tilg

Herbert Tilg is an Austrian gastroenterologist and hepatologist who has headed the University Hospital for Internal Medicine I at the Medical University of Innsbruck since 2012.

Herbert Y. Meltzer

Herbert Y. Meltzer is an American psychiatrist, Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University, known for the dopamine-serotonin hypothesis of atypical antipsychotics and clinical trials that won clozapine approval for treatment-resistant schizophrenia.

Heribert Schunkert

Heribert Schunkert is a German cardiologist who has been Professor of Cardiology at the Technical University of Munich and Director of Cardiology at the German Heart Centre Munich since 2012.

Herman A. Taylor Jr.

Herman A. Taylor Jr. is an American cardiologist who founded and led the Jackson Heart Study and directs the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine.

Herman A. Tyroler

Herman Alfred (Al) Tyroler was an American physician and epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina, a pioneer of cardiovascular disease epidemiology elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1980.

Herman Baker

Herman Baker, born 1926, is an American clinical biochemistry and nutrition researcher known for his work on biotin deficiency at the East Orange VA Medical Center.