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Jens Jorgen Pindborg

Jens Jørgen Pindborg (1921–1995) was a Danish oral pathologist, professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for establishing oral lichen planus and oral submucous fibrosis as premalignant conditions.

Jens Juul Holst

Jens Juul Holst is a Danish medical physiologist at the University of Copenhagen whose research on the gut hormone GLP-1 led to diabetes and obesity drugs.

Jens Lundgren

Jens D. Lundgren, born 1960, is a Danish infectious-disease physician-scientist, clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen, who directs CHIP and leads the EuroSIDA HIV cohort.

Jens Overgaard

Jens Overgaard is a Danish physician-scientist and professor of experimental clinical oncology at Aarhus University Hospital, known for the DAHANCA fractionation trials in head-and-neck cancer.

Jerald P. Radich

Jerald P. Radich, known as Jerry Radich, is an American physician-scientist who directs the Molecular Oncology Lab at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, studying leukemia monitoring.

Jerald Sadoff

Jerald C. Sadoff is an American vaccinologist and physician who spent 22 years at Walter Reed, led vaccine development at Merck and Aeras, and helped develop the Ad26.COV2.S COVID-19 vaccine.

Jeremy A. Greene

Jeremy A. Greene (born 1974) is an American physician and historian of medicine who holds the William H. Welch Professorship at Johns Hopkins and wrote Prescribing by Numbers (2007).

Jeremy C Wyatt

Jeremy C Wyatt is a British physician and health informatics researcher, emeritus professor of digital healthcare at Southampton, known for the TIDieR checklist and evaluating digital health interventions.

Jeremy Farrar

Jeremy Farrar is a British clinician-scientist in infectious disease and global health who directed the Wellcome Trust from 2013 to 2023 and served as WHO Chief Scientist.

Jeremy Grimshaw

Jeremy M. Grimshaw is a Canadian-based physician and implementation scientist who studies how to get proven clinical evidence used in routine patient care, long based in Ottawa.

Jeremy M. Kahn

Jeremy M. Kahn is an American critical care physician and health services researcher at the University of Pittsburgh who studies how ICU organization affects patient outcomes.

Jeremy N. Rich

Jeremy N. Rich is an American neuro-oncologist and cancer stem cell researcher known for his work on glioblastoma stem cells. In 2025 he became deputy director for research and chief scientific officer of UNC Lineberger.

Jeremy N. Ruskin

Jeremy N. Ruskin is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who founded the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1978 and teaches at Harvard Medical School.

Jeremy R. Chapman

Jeremy R. Chapman is an Australian nephrologist and transplantation researcher who has worked at Westmead Hospital and the University of Sydney since 1987, and received the Medawar Prize in 2022.

Jeremy S. Abramson

Jeremy S. Abramson is a hematologist-oncologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Jon and Jo Ann Hagler Center for Lymphoma at Mass General.

Jeremy S. Duffield

Jeremy S. Duffield is a British nephrologist who showed macrophages play opposing roles in organ injury and repair, and later led research at Biogen, Vertex, and Prime Medicine.

Jeremy Shiffman

Jeremy Shiffman is an American political scientist who studies how global health issues rise and fall on policy agendas, and a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University since 2018.

Jeremy Sugarman

Jeremy Sugarman is an American physician and bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University, a professor of medicine and deputy director of the Berman Institute of Bioethics.

Jeroen Hendrikse

Jeroen Hendrikse (born 1976) is a Dutch neuroradiologist and professor at UMC Utrecht, known for arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI and vessel-wall imaging in stroke.

Jeroen J. Bax

Jeroen J. Bax is a Dutch cardiologist at Leiden University Medical Center known for cardiac imaging research and as President of the European Society of Cardiology from 2016 to 2018.

Jerome B. Posner

Jerome B. Posner, born 1932, is an American neurologist who built neuro-oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering, defined paraneoplastic syndromes, and co-wrote Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma.

Jerome Engel

Jerome Engel Jr. is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at UCLA, where he directs the Seizure Disorder Center and studies why epilepsy surgery is underused.

Jerome F. Strauss

Jerome F. Strauss III is an American reproductive endocrinologist who served as dean of the VCU School of Medicine from 2005 and is known for his research on the StAR protein.

Jérôme Galon

Jérôme Galon is a French cancer immunologist, Research Director at Inserm in Paris, who originated the immune contexture concept and the Immunoscore assay for cancer prognosis.

Jerome M. Hershman

Jerome M. Hershman (1932–2022) was an American endocrinologist and thyroid researcher, Distinguished Professor of Medicine Emeritus at UCLA, past president of the American Thyroid Association, and founding editor of its journal Thyroid.

Jerome O. Klein

Jerome O. Klein (1931–2021) was an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-researcher who spent his career at Boston City Hospital and Boston Medical Center, best known for research on otitis media.

Jerome P. Kassirer

Jerome P. Kassirer, also known as J.P. Kassirer, is an American nephrologist and Tufts professor who edited the New England Journal of Medicine from 1991 to 1999.

Jerome Ritz

Jerome Ritz is an American physician-scientist in hematology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, known for work on graft-versus-host disease and cellular therapies for blood cancers.

Jerome W. Conn

Jerome W. Conn (1907–1994) was an American endocrinologist at the University of Michigan who defined primary aldosteronism, the adrenal hormone disorder known as Conn's syndrome, in 1954, and studied hypertension and diabetes.

Jerri Nielsen

Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald (1952-2009), American ER physician who self-diagnosed and treated her breast cancer as sole doctor at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in winter 1999, aided by a midwinter airdrop and October Air National Guard rescue; author of Ice Bound.