Medical and health researchers

Paul Calès

Paul Calès (born 1954) is a French hepato-gastroenterologist and professor at the Université d'Angers, known for the FibroMeter liver fibrosis blood tests and variceal bleeding trials in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Paul Cannon

Paul J. Cannon (1933–2018) was an American physician-scientist at Columbia University who studied how the kidney regulates salt and blood pressure in heart failure and introduced xenon-133 measurement of heart-muscle blood flow.

Paul Clemens von Baumgarten

Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1848–1928) was a German pathologist who held the pathology chair at Tübingen from 1889 to 1919 and independently described the tubercle bacillus in 1882, alongside Robert Koch.

Sep 17, 2026

Paul D. Stolley

Paul D. Stolley (died 2017) was an American physician-epidemiologist who chaired the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Paul Dieppe

Paul Dieppe is a British rheumatologist and health services researcher known for work on osteoarthritis and joint replacement, and Emeritus Professor of Health and Wellbeing at Exeter.

Paul Dorian

Paul Dorian is a Canadian cardiac electrophysiologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and University of Toronto professor known for the 2002 ALIVE trial comparing amiodarone with lidocaine in cardiac arrest.

Paul E. Klotman

Paul E. Klotman is an American physician-scientist in nephrology and HIV research who served as president of Baylor College of Medicine from 2010 to 2026.

Paul E. Marik

Paul E. Marik, also known as Paul Ellis Marik, is a South African–born critical care physician who created the HAT sepsis protocol and co-founded the FLCCC.

Paul E. Neiman

Paul E. Neiman (1939–2017) was an American physician-scientist and founding faculty member of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who studied retroviruses and oncogenes in chickens.

Paul E. Sax

Paul E. Sax is an American infectious-diseases physician and HIV researcher who is Clinical Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Paul Elliott (physician-epidemiologist)

Paul Elliott is a British physician-epidemiologist, Professor at Imperial College London, who directs the REACT Covid-19 surveillance program tracking infection in over 3 million people in England.

Paul Emery

Paul Emery is a British rheumatologist, the Versus Arthritis Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Leeds, known for establishing early intervention and biologic therapy as standard in rheumatoid arthritis.

Paul Eston Lacy

Paul Eston Lacy (1924–2005) was an American pathologist who led pathology at Washington University and pioneered islet transplantation, curing diabetic rats in 1972 and enabling the first insulin-independent patient in 1989.

Sep 17, 2026

Paul Farmer

Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022), American physician and medical anthropologist, co-founder of Partners In Health (Zanmi Lasante) in Haiti, pioneer of structural violence analysis, MDR-TB and HIV treatment equity, and chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.

Paul Flechsig

Paul Emil Flechsig (1847–1929) was a German neuroanatomist and psychiatrist who held the first psychiatry chair at Leipzig and founded the myelogenetic method of cortical mapping.

Paul Frosch

Paul Frosch (1860–1928) was a German bacteriologist who, with Friedrich Loeffler, proved in 1898 that foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a filter-passing virus, the first animal disease shown viral.

Paul G Shekelle

Paul G Shekelle is an American physician and health-services researcher known for evidence-based medicine, who is Professor of Medicine at UCLA and Chief of General Internal Medicine at the West Los Angeles VA.

Paul G. Richardson

Paul G. Richardson is an American hematologist-oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School whose clinical trials established standard multiple myeloma drugs, including bortezomib and lenalidomide.

Paul G. Thomas

Paul G. Thomas is a viral immunologist who leads the Immunology and Vaccine Development Program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, studying T cells and influenza immunity.

Paul Glasziou

Paul P. Glasziou is an Australian general practitioner and evidence-based medicine researcher, Emeritus Professor at Bond University who directed its Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare from 2010 to 2024.

Paul Grawitz

Paul Albert Grawitz (1850–1932) was a German pathologist trained under Rudolf Virchow, known for the Grawitz tumour eponym and his disproven theory that kidney tumors arise from adrenal tissue.

Paul Gyorgy

Paul Gyorgy (Pál György, 1893–1976) was a Hungarian-born biochemist and pediatrician who discovered three vitamins, including vitamin B6, and received the 1975 National Medal of Science.

Paul H. Plötz

Paul H. Plotz, also published as Paul Plotz, was an American NIH rheumatologist and internationally known myositis expert who died in 2024 at age 86.

Paul Harrison (psychiatrist)

Paul J. Harrison (born 1960) is a British psychiatrist and neuroscientist, Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford since 2000, known for research on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and COVID-19.

Paul Heller

Paul Heller (1914–2001) was a Czech-born American hematologist, Auschwitz survivor, and University of Illinois professor whose 1979 New England Journal study established the clinical benignity of sickle-cell trait.

Paul I. Terasaki

Paul I. Terasaki (1929–2016) was an American transplant scientist at UCLA whose microcytotoxicity HLA test became the international standard for matching organ donors with recipients.

Paul Ivan Yakovlev

Paul Ivan Yakovlev (1894–1983) was a Russian-born American neuroanatomist, Clinical Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School and founder of a collection of nearly 1,000 brain specimens.

Paul J. Hesketh

Paul J. Hesketh is an American medical oncologist who directs the Lahey Cancer Institute in Massachusetts and shaped the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.

Paul J. Nestel

Paul J. Nestel was an Australian cardiologist-scientist, a founding father of lipid and lipoprotein research, who published 490 papers over five decades and died in 2026.