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Paul Zimmet

Paul Zimmet is an Australian physician and epidemiologist, Professor of Diabetes at Monash University, credited with predicting the global type 2 diabetes epidemic and coining "diabesity".

Paul Zoll

Paul Maurice Zoll was an American cardiologist at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School who showed in 1952 that the heart could be paced through the closed chest.

Paul‐Henri Lambert

Paul-Henri Lambert is a Belgian-born physician-scientist and immunologist at the University of Geneva who led WHO vaccine research and founded the Advanced Course of Vaccinology (ADVAC).

Paula A. Rochon

Paula A. Rochon is a Canadian geriatrician and health-services researcher at the University of Toronto, known for the prescribing cascade concept and for founding Women's Age Lab in 2021.

Paula Braveman

Paula A. Braveman is an American physician and social epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for defining and measuring health disparities and health equity.

Paula Johnson

Paula A. Johnson is an American cardiologist who founded the Connors Center for Women's Health and has served as the 14th president of Wellesley College since 2016.

Paulus Kirchhof

Paulus Kirchhof is a German cardiologist and electrophysiologist who directs cardiology at the University Heart and Vascular Center in Hamburg and led the EAST-AFNET 4 trial.

Paulus T.V.M. de Jong

Paulus T.V.M. de Jong is a Dutch ophthalmology researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, known for age-related macular degeneration research and co-discovering the gene behind pseudoxanthoma elasticum.

Pavan Reddy

Pavan Reddy is an Indian-born American hematologist-oncologist directing the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine, known for research on graft-versus-host disease.

Pavel Strnad

Pavel Strnad is a German hepatologist and professor at University Hospital RWTH Aachen who led the phase 2 trial of fazirsiran, an RNA therapy for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.

Pearay L. Ogra

Pearay L. Ogra, born in 1939, is a pediatric infectious diseases physician and mucosal immunology researcher whose 1968 study showed live oral poliovaccine induces secretory IgA.

Pearse A. Keane

Pearse A. Keane is an Irish ophthalmologist and medical AI researcher, Professor at UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital, known for pioneering AI eye diagnosis and founding oculomics.

Pedro Cuatrecasas

Pedro Cuatrecasas (1936–2025) was a Spanish-born American biochemist and pharmacologist who co-invented affinity chromatography, won the 1987 Wolf Prize, and helped develop more than 40 medicines.

Pedro L. Alonso

Pedro L. Alonso is a Spanish physician and epidemiologist who led the RTS,S malaria vaccine trials and directed the WHO Global Malaria Programme from 2014 to 2022.

Pejman Rohani

Pejman Rohani is a British-trained disease ecologist and mathematical epidemiologist at the University of Georgia, known for work on stochastic epidemic dynamics and pertussis resurgence.

Pekka Puska

Pekka Puska is a Finnish public health physician and epidemiologist who directed the North Karelia Project from 1972 and later led noncommunicable disease prevention at the World Health Organization.

Peng-Sheng Chen

Peng-Sheng Chen is a cardiac electrophysiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, known for research on the autonomic nervous system in atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death.

Per Björntorp

Per Björntorp (1931–2003) was a Swedish physician-scientist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg who researched obesity and is described as one of the fathers of the metabolic syndrome concept.

Per Hall

Per Hall is a Swedish medical oncologist and professor of radiation epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet who studies breast-cancer genetics and risk-based screening, and founded the KARMA mammography cohort in 2010.

Per Soelberg Sørensen

Per Soelberg Sørensen is a Danish neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher who founded the Danish Multiple Sclerosis Center at Rigshospitalet and won the 2017 Charcot award.

Per Svenningsson

Per Svenningsson is a Swedish neurologist and neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology at Karolinska Institutet and a Senior Physician at Karolinska University Hospital, known for work on serotonin signaling and Parkinson's disease.

Per-Olof Berggren

Per-Olof Berggren is a Swedish professor of experimental endocrinology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, director of the Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

Per‐Henrik Groop

Per-Henrik Groop is a Finnish physician-scientist in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at the University of Helsinki, known for founding the FinnDiane Study, a nationwide cohort of nearly 10,000 people with type 1 diabetes.

Percival Bailey

Percival Bailey (1892–1973) was an American neurosurgeon and neuropathologist best known for the first histological classification of brain gliomas with Harvey Cushing and for showing in 1921 that diabetes insipidus originates in the hypothalamus.

Percy A. Knolle

Percy A. Knolle, born 1962, is a German physician-scientist in liver immunology and founding Director of the Institute of Molecular Immunology at the Technical University of Munich since 2013.

Percy Theodore Herring

Percy Theodore Herring was a British physician and physiologist, Chandos Professor at St Andrews for forty years, remembered for first describing the pituitary Herring bodies in 1908.

Percy W. Clutterbuck

Percy W. Clutterbuck, born Percival Walter Clutterbuck (1897–1938), was an English biochemist at the University of London who made the first published attempt to isolate penicillin.

Pere Ginès

Pere Ginès is a Spanish hepatologist and Full Professor at the University of Barcelona, known for work on cirrhosis complications, the 1991 paracentesis trial, and EASL guidelines.

Perrin C. White

Perrin C. White is an American pediatric endocrinologist who has led the pediatric endocrinology division at UT Southwestern in Dallas since 1994, known for research on congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

Perry Elliott

Perry Mark Elliott, born 1963 in London, is a British cardiologist, professor at University College London, and consultant at St Bartholomew's Hospital, known for research on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.