Medical and health researchers

Howard A. Eder

Howard A. Eder was an American physician-scientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for showing in 1951 that HDL is higher in premenopausal women.

Howard A. Fine

Howard A. Fine is an American neuro-oncologist, founding Director of the Brain Tumor Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell, known for glioma stem cell research and the GLICO organoid model.

Howard A. Pearson

Howard A. Pearson (1929–2016) was an American pediatric hematologist at Yale School of Medicine who described Pearson marrow-pancreas syndrome and chaired pediatrics from 1974 to 1987.

Howard B. Sprague

Howard B. Sprague (1895–1970) was an American cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School teacher, known for applying phonocardiography to the study of auscultation.

Howard C. Herrmann is an American interventional cardiologist and John W. Bryfogle Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, a leading investigator in transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

Howard C. Thomas

Howard C. Thomas, or Howard Christopher Thomas, is a British hepatologist born in 1945 who defined the phases of chronic hepatitis B and led the first European interferon trials.

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Howard Charles Goodman

Howard Charles Goodman (1920–1998) was an American immunologist who directed clinical immunology research at the NIH, led WHO's immunology department and tropical disease program, and ended his career at Johns Hopkins.

Howard D. Kolodny

Howard D. Kolodny is an American endocrinologist in Great Neck, New York, who trained at NYU and Mount Sinai and published 1971 studies of chlorpromazine as a growth hormone suppressor.

Howard E. Morgan

Howard E. Morgan (1927–2009) was an American cardiac physiologist who studied heart metabolism and workload-driven growth, chaired Physiology at Penn State, and led the American Heart Association.

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Howard E. Skipper

Howard Earle Skipper was an American cancer researcher at the Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, who developed the quantitative basis of modern cancer chemotherapy.

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Howard F. Polley

Howard F. Polley was an American rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who co-authored the April 1949 report announcing cortisone's dramatic effects on rheumatoid arthritis.

Howard F. Root

Howard F. Root (1890–1967) was an American physician and diabetes researcher at Harvard and the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston who gave New England's first insulin injection in 1922.

Howard Frumkin

Howard Frumkin is an American physician-epidemiologist, dean of the University of Washington School of Public Health from 2010 to 2016 and CDC environmental health director, known for planetary health research.

Howard H. Goldman

Howard H. Goldman is an American psychiatrist and mental health policy researcher, a University of Maryland professor since 1985 who edited the 1999 Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health.

Howard I. Scher

Howard I. Scher is an American medical oncologist specializing in advanced prostate cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who led the phase 3 enzalutamide trial AFFIRM.

Howard J. Weinstein

Howard J. Weinstein (Howard Jeffrey Weinstein) is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist and Harvard professor known for childhood leukemia research, including the Pediatric Oncology Group AML trials.

Howard L. Bleich

Howard L. Bleich was an American physician and founder of medical informatics who built PaperChase, the first program letting clinicians search MEDLINE, and won the Morris F. Collen Award.

Howard L. Fields

Howard L. Fields, also known as Howard Fields, was an American neurologist and neuroscientist at UCSF who showed how endogenous opioids suppress pain and mediate placebo analgesia.

Howard L. Judd

Howard L. Judd, also known as H L Judd, was an American reproductive endocrinologist and UCLA professor internationally recognized for research on menopause, endometriosis, and polycystic ovarian disease.

Howard L. Weiner

Howard L. Weiner is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist, Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for developing oral tolerance immunotherapy for multiple sclerosis.

Howard M. Heller

Howard M. Heller is an American infectious disease physician and assistant professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for HIV/AIDS and tick-borne disease work.

Howard M. Sandler

Howard M. Sandler is an American radiation oncologist specializing in prostate cancer who became Chair of Radiation Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in 2026.

Howard M. Spiro

Howard M. Spiro (1924–2012) was an American gastroenterologist who founded and led Yale's gastroenterology section from 1955 to 1982, wrote Clinical Gastroenterology, and championed the doctor–patient relationship.

Howard Markel

Howard Markel is an American physician and medical historian at the University of Michigan known for studies of US cities' responses to the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Howard N. Hodis

Howard N. Hodis is a physician-scientist at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine who directs its Atherosclerosis Research Unit and studies atherosclerosis prevention.

Howard R. Knapp

Howard R. Knapp is a physician-researcher in clinical pharmacology, trained at Vanderbilt, known for 1989 and 1990 New England Journal of Medicine studies of fish oil and leukotrienes.

Howard Rasmussen

Howard K. Rasmussen (1925–2005) was an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and calcium metabolism who argued that calcium ion acts as an intracellular messenger alongside cyclic AMP.

Howard S. Frazier

Howard S. Frazier was a Harvard physician-investigator and leading figure in medical technology assessment, who co-edited Medicine Worth Paying For: Assessing Medical Innovations in 1995.

Howard S. Jacobs

Howard S. Jacobs is a physician-scientist in reproductive endocrinology at the Middlesex Hospital and University College London, known for pulsatile GnRH therapy for puberty and ovulation induction.