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Martin Underwood

Martin Underwood is a British primary care researcher and former general practitioner who is Professor of Primary Care Research at the University of Warwick and studies back pain.

Martin Vessey

Martin Paterson Vessey, known as M P Vessey, is a British physician-epidemiologist and Emeritus Professor of Public Health at Oxford, known for oral contraceptive safety studies.

Martine F. Roussel

Martine F. Roussel is a French-born molecular oncologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for identifying the FMS oncogene as a growth-factor receptor and discovering D-type cyclins.

Martine Piccart

Martine Piccart is a Belgian medical oncologist, Scientific Director at the Institut Jules Bordet in Brussels, who led the HERA and MINDACT trials and co-founded the Breast International Group.

Marvin C. Gershengorn

Marvin C. Gershengorn is an American endocrinologist at NIH's NIDDK who studies the TRH and TSH receptors and received the American Thyroid Association's 2018 Stanbury Medal.

Marvin Cornblath

Marvin Cornblath was an American pediatrician who chaired Pediatrics at the University of Maryland from 1968 to 1978 and shaped the study of neonatal hypoglycemia.

Marvin D. Siperstein

Marvin D. Siperstein (1925–1997) was an American endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at UCSF whose cholesterol research underpinned work honored with the 1985 Nobel Prize.

Marvin H. Sleisenger

Marvin H. Sleisenger (1924–2017) was an American gastroenterologist who was chief of gastroenterology at Cornell, then led medicine at UCSF and the San Francisco VA.

Marvin Turck

Marvin Turck is an American infectious-disease physician-scientist, a University of Washington faculty member since 1964, who co-developed the Kirby–Bauer disc diffusion method and edited the Journal of Infectious Diseases from 1989 to 2002.

Marwan M. Azar

Marwan M. Azar is an American infectious disease physician and clinical mycologist who is Medical Director, Anti-infectives, at GSK and an adjunct associate professor at Yale School of Medicine.

Mary A. Whooley

Mary A. Whooley is an American primary care physician and UCSF professor known for research linking depression and cardiovascular disease and for the two-question Whooley depression screen.

Mary Barber (bacteriologist)

Mary Barber (1911–1965) was a British clinical bacteriologist at Hammersmith Hospital and St Thomas's who documented penicillin-resistant staphylococci and led a 1957–59 Hammersmith trial reversing hospital resistance.

Mary Cushman

Mary Cushman is an American hematologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist at the University of Vermont, known for Women's Health Initiative findings on hormone therapy and for co-leading the REGARDS stroke study.

Mary E. Hannah

Mary E. Hannah is a Canadian physician-scientist in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Toronto whose Term Breech Trial of 2000 changed practice for breech and post-term pregnancies.

Mary E. Norton

Mary E. Norton is an American maternal-fetal medicine physician and clinical geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, an expert in cell-free DNA prenatal testing and former department chair.

Mary E. Tinetti

Mary E. Tinetti, also known as Mary Tinetti, is an American geriatric physician and epidemiologist at Yale whose research established that falls in older adults are preventable.

Mary Ellen Avery

Mary Ellen Avery was an American pediatrician who showed in 1959 that respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants is caused by a lack of lung surfactant.

Mary Ethel Florey

Mary Ethel Florey, Lady Florey (née Reed, 1900–1966), was an Australian-born physician who supervised the Oxford penicillin clinical trials and wrote a four-volume work on antibiotic therapy.

Mary Jane Ferraro

Mary Jane Ferraro, also known as M. J. Ferraro, was an American clinical microbiologist who directed Massachusetts General Hospital's microbiology laboratory and shaped national antibiotic susceptibility testing standards.

Mary Jeanne Kreek

Mary Jeanne Kreek (1937–2021) was an American physician-scientist at The Rockefeller University who helped establish methadone maintenance as a treatment for heroin addiction and pioneered the genetics of addiction vulnerability.

Mary L. Phillips

Mary L. Phillips is a British-born psychiatrist and neuroimaging researcher, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, known for identifying neural biomarkers of bipolar disorder risk.

Mary Mcdermott

Mary McDermott is an American physician-scientist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, known for clinical research on peripheral artery disease and winner of the American Heart Association's 2023 Clinical Research Prize.

Mary Ramsay

Mary Ramsay, full name Mary Elizabeth Booth Ramsay, is a British epidemiologist who heads immunization programs at the UK Health Security Agency and received a CBE in 2022.

Mary Toft

Mary Toft (c. 1703–1763), Englishwoman of Godalming, Surrey, behind the 1726 rabbit-births hoax; fooled eminent doctors via maternal imagination theory, confessed 7 December 1726.

Mary Travis Bassett

Mary Travis Bassett is an American physician and public health researcher who led New York City's health department from 2014 to 2018 and became New York State health commissioner in 2021.

Mary V. Relling

Mary V. Relling is a clinical pharmacologist and pharmacogenomics researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital who co-founded CPIC and helped move pharmacogenetic testing into routine care.

Mary Wakefield

Mary Wakefield is an American nurse and health policy scholar who served as Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration from 2009 to 2015 and as Acting Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Mary-Elizabeth Patti

Mary-Elizabeth Patti is an American physician-scientist and endocrinologist at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston who studies how obesity causes insulin resistance and how early nutrition programs diabetes risk across generations.

Masafumi Kitakaze

Masafumi Kitakaze (北風 政史) is a Japanese cardiologist and physician-scientist known for the J-WIND trials of cardioprotective drugs in acute myocardial infarction, reported in The Lancet in 2007.

Masaki Mori

Masaki Mori (森 正樹) is a Japanese digestive surgeon and physician-scientist, chairman professor of gastroenterological surgery at Osaka University from 2008, known for gastrointestinal cancer research.