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John C. Cassel

John C. Cassel (1921–1976) was a South African-born epidemiologist, a pioneer of social epidemiology who led the University of North Carolina's epidemiology department from 1958.

John C. Fletcher

John C. Fletcher, also known as John Fletcher, was an American bioethicist and former Episcopal priest who pioneered bioethics and led the NIH Clinical Center's Bioethics Program from 1977 to 1987.

John C. Gore

John C. Gore is a British-born medical imaging scientist at Vanderbilt University who develops MRI methods and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011.

John C. Hobbins

John C. Hobbins is an American maternal-fetal medicine physician at the University of Colorado known for pioneering the clinical use of ultrasound in obstetrics and prenatal diagnosis.

John C. Long

John C. Long is a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the first there to focus solely on hematopathology, the diagnosis of blood and lymphoid diseases.

John C. Mazziotta

John C. Mazziotta is an American neurologist and brain imaging researcher who has been Vice Chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and CEO of UCLA Health since 2015.

John C. Pickup

John C. Pickup is a British physician-scientist, Emeritus Professor of Diabetes and Metabolism at King's College London, known for introducing insulin pump therapy in the late 1970s.

John C. Sinclair

John C. Sinclair, known as Jack Sinclair, was a Canadian neonatologist who ran some of the first randomized trials in newborn medicine and founded McMaster's neonatal unit.

John Chalmers (neuroscientist)

John Chalmers, born 1937, is an Australian medical researcher at the George Institute known for work on the brain's control of blood pressure and the INTERACT and ENCHANTED stroke trials.

John Charles Walker

John Charles Walker (1893–1994) was an American plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who first demonstrated that disease resistance in plants has a chemical basis.

John Charnley

Sir John Charnley (1911–1982) was an English orthopedic surgeon who devised low-friction arthroplasty at Wrightington Hospital, the first total hip replacement to give consistently predictable results.

John Crown

John Crown is an Irish medical oncologist at St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, known for breast cancer drug trials and for founding the national trials group ICORG, now Cancer Trials Ireland.

John D. Bagdade

John D. Bagdade is an American endocrinologist at the University of Washington known for New England Journal of Medicine papers on lipid metabolism in diabetes and uremia.

John D. Clemens

John D. Clemens is an American infectious disease epidemiologist whose Bangladesh field trials established oral cholera vaccines; he was founding Director General of the International Vaccine Institute and developed Shanchol.

John D. Crawford

John D. Crawford (1920–2005) was an American pediatric endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who led its pediatric endocrine program for decades and was among the first to treat children with human growth hormone.

John D. Grabenstein

John D. Grabenstein is an American vaccinologist, pharmacist, and epidemiologist who directed the Military Vaccine Agency, led medical affairs at Merck Vaccines, and won the 2020 Remington Honor Medal.

John D. Hainsworth

John D. Hainsworth is an American medical oncologist in Nashville who co-founded the Sarah Cannon Research Institute in 1993 and directs clinical research at Sarah Cannon Cancer Center.

John D. Keith

John D. Keith (1908–1989) was a Canadian pediatric cardiologist at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children whose studies of congenital heart disease won the Gairdner International Award.

John D. Lantos

John D. Lantos, also known as John Lantos, is an American pediatrician and bioethicist who moved to Kansas City in 2009 to create and direct the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center.

John D. Mathews

John D. Mathews is an Australian physician-epidemiologist known for his 1967 transmission model for kuru and as founding director of the Menzies School of Health Research.

John D. Michenfelder

John D. Michenfelder, born in 1931, is an American anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic who researched anesthetics' effects on cerebral metabolism and brain protection.

John D. Minna

John D. Minna is an American medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher who directs the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research at UT Southwestern in Dallas.

John D. Parker

John D. Parker is a Canadian cardiologist and cardiovascular clinical pharmacologist, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Toronto, known for research on nitrate therapy and nitrate tolerance.

John D. Schuetz

John D. Schuetz is an American pharmacologist and oncology researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for work on ABC transporters in chemotherapy response.

John D. Shaughnessy

John D. Shaughnessy is an American molecular biologist and multiple myeloma researcher who is a professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Myeloma Center.

John Danesh

John Danesh is a physician and epidemiologist who has been Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Cambridge since 2001, working on the causes and prediction of cardiovascular disease.

John David Carpten

John David Carpten is an American cancer geneticist, director of City of Hope's Comprehensive Cancer Center, known for discovering the first hereditary prostate cancer gene, HOXB13.

John Deanfield

John Deanfield is a British cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology at University College London and director of NICOR, known for landmark studies on smoking, endothelial function, and cardiovascular prevention.

John Dick (cancer researcher)

John Dick is a Canadian cancer researcher at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto who showed in 1994 that leukemia is sustained by rare self-renewing stem cells.

John Dimarco

John P. DiMarco is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist at the University of Virginia, known for work on adenosine, ventricular tachycardia mechanisms, and implantable defibrillators.