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Otfrid Foerster
Otfrid Foerster (1873–1941) was a German neurologist and self-taught neurosurgeon in Breslau who devised posterior rhizotomy for spasticity, mapped the human dermatomes, and pioneered awake cortical stimulation surgery for epilepsy.
Otokata Higashi
Otokata Higashi was a Japanese pediatrician, a Tohoku University graduate and professor of pediatrics at Akita University, remembered as co-eponym of Chédiak-Higashi syndrome, a rare immunodeficiency and pigmentary disorder he described in 1954.
Ottavio Arancio
Ottavio Arancio is an Italian-born American physician-scientist and cellular neurobiologist, professor at Columbia University's Taub Institute, known for pioneering study of synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease.
Otto Binswanger
Otto Binswanger (1852–1929) was a Swiss psychiatrist who directed the Jena psychiatric clinic from 1882 to 1919, treated Friedrich Nietzsche, and described Binswanger's disease in 1894.
Otto Krayer
Otto Krayer (1899–1982) was a German-American pharmacologist who led Harvard Medical School's pharmacology department from 1939 to 1966, known for cardiovascular work on the veratrum alkaloids.
Otto Loewi
Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist who proved in 1921, with two frog hearts, that nerves act by releasing chemicals, sharing the 1936 Nobel Prize with Henry Dale.
Otto M. Hess
Otto M. Hess (1946–2011) was a Swiss cardiologist who headed the cardiovascular department at the University Hospital of Bern and led trials of homocysteine-lowering therapy after angioplasty.
Otto Mehls
Otto Mehls is a German pediatric nephrologist who built the study of childhood chronic kidney disease at Heidelberg University Children's Hospital from 1968 to 2004.
Otto Mühlbock
Otto Mühlbock (1906–1979) was a Dutch cancer researcher and endocrinologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute who showed hormones alone can induce mammary cancer in mice and developed the GR mouse strain.
Otto Naegeli
Otto Naegeli (1871–1938) was a Swiss physician and hematologist who identified the myeloblast and lymphoblast in a 1900 paper and wrote Blutkrankheiten und Blutdiagnostik, a German hematology textbook.
Otto Schirmer
Otto Schirmer was a German ophthalmologist, born in 1864, who held chairs at Greifswald, Kiel, and Strassburg and introduced the Schirmer test for tear production in 1903.
Otto von Schrön
Otto von Schrön (1837–1917) was a German pathologist who led the University of Naples' Institute of Anatomical Pathology for fifty-three years, training a generation of Italian medical scientists.
Otto Westphal
Otto Westphal (1913–2004) was a German chemist and immunologist who established the chemistry of bacterial endotoxins and developed the hot phenol–water method for purifying lipopolysaccharide.
Owen Epstein
Owen Epstein is a South African–trained gastroenterologist and professor at the Royal Free Hospital in London, known for primary biliary cirrhosis research and one of Europe's most active capsule endoscopy services.
Owen Harding Wangensteen
Owen Harding Wangensteen (1898–1981) was an American surgeon who chaired surgery at the University of Minnesota from 1930 to 1967 and invented the Wangensteen suction tube for intestinal obstruction.
Owen N. Witte
Owen N. Witte is an American cancer biologist at UCLA who showed that BCR-ABL drives leukemia, co-discovered BTK, and laid the groundwork for Gleevec and ibrutinib.
Owsei Temkin
Owsei Temkin (1902–2002) was an American historian of medicine who directed the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and wrote The Falling Sickness, a history of epilepsy.
Oye Gureje
Oye Gureje, full name Oyewusi Gureje, is a Nigerian psychiatrist and psychiatric epidemiologist, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Ibadan, who led the Ibadan Study of Ageing.
P. Andrew Futreal
P. Andrew Futreal, also known as Andrew Futreal, is a cancer geneticist known for identifying the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes and BRAF mutations in melanoma.
P. Helena Mäkelä
P. Helena Mäkelä, born Pirjo Helena Mäkelä (1930–2011), was a Finnish microbiologist at the National Public Health Institute whose field trials established Hib conjugate vaccines for infants.
P. James B. Dyck
P. James B. Dyck is an American neurologist and Professor emeritus at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, whose research centers on peripheral neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy, and Guillain-Barre syndrome.
P. Leif Bergsagel
P. Leif Bergsagel (Peter Leif Bergsagel) is a Canadian-trained hematologist-oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, who identified recurrent chromosome translocations and NF-κB mutations in multiple myeloma.
P. Reed Larsen
P. Reed Larsen (Philip Reed Larsen) is an American thyroid endocrinologist who leads the Thyroid Section at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.
P.R.J. Burch
P.R.J. Burch (1920–1987) was a British medical physicist at the University of Leeds known for his autoaggressive disease theory and his denial that smoking causes lung cancer.
Pablo A. Celnik
Pablo A. Celnik is an Argentine-born physician-scientist in neurorehabilitation, CEO of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago since 2023, known for using noninvasive brain stimulation to study motor learning.
Pablo García‐Pavía
Pablo García-Pavía is a Spanish cardiologist who leads the inherited cardiac diseases unit at Puerta de Hierro hospital in Madrid and researches transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.
Pablo Rubinstein
Pablo Rubinstein is a hematologist and immunogeneticist at the New York Blood Center whose 1996 and 1998 studies established unrelated-donor cord blood as a stem-cell source.
Pamela B. Davis
Pamela B. Davis is an American pulmonary physician-scientist at Case Western Reserve University whose 1995 trial established high-dose ibuprofen as a treatment slowing cystic fibrosis lung decline.
Pamela J. Goodwin
Pamela J. Goodwin (Pamela Jean Goodwin) is a Canadian medical oncologist and clinical epidemiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, known for research on breast cancer outcomes.
Pamela J. Shaw
Pamela J. Shaw, also published as Pamela Shaw, is a British neurologist and motor neuron disease researcher who directs the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience.