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Arnold M. Epstein

Arnold M. Epstein is an American physician and health policy researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for work on Medicaid policy and hospital payment reform.

Arnold M. Katz

Arnold M. Katz (1932–2016) was an American cardiologist who defined calcium's role in heart contraction, discovered phospholamban, and served as the first Chief of Cardiology at the University of Connecticut.

Arnold M. Seligman

Arnold M. Seligman (1912–1976) was an American physician and histochemist who developed methods for showing enzymes and protein sulfhydryl groups in tissue sections and applied them to cancer.

Arnold Rice Rich

Arnold Rice Rich (1893–1968) was an American pathologist at Johns Hopkins who wrote the standard text The Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis and classified jaundice into retention and regurgitation types.

Arnold S. Monto

Arnold S. Monto is an American physician-epidemiologist at the University of Michigan known for the Tecumseh community study, influenza vaccine trials, and the 2025 CENTERSTONE trial of baloxavir.

Arnold S. Relman

Arnold S. Relman was an American nephrologist and editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1977 to 1991, known for acid-base research and conflict-of-interest disclosure rules.

Arnold Schwartz

Arnold Schwartz is an American cardiac pharmacologist and biochemist who identified the receptor site for digitalis on the heart's sodium-potassium pump and helped develop calcium channel blockers.

Arnold Theiler

Arnold Theiler (1867-1936), Swiss-born veterinarian, father of South African veterinary science; founded Onderstepoort laboratory (1908) and the University of Pretoria veterinary faculty, fought rinderpest, and was father of Nobel laureate Max Theiler.

Aron Goldhirsch

Aron Goldhirsch (1946–2020) was a medical oncologist who specialized in breast cancer, working at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan and co-founding the Breast International Group in 1996.

Aron Hall

Aron Hall is an American CDC epidemiologist and veterinarian, a PECASE recipient named by President Obama, known for norovirus research and COVID-19 surveillance, and Director of the CDC's Division of Viral Diseases.

Arri Coomarasamy

Arri Coomarasamy is a British gynaecologist and clinical trialist, Professor at the University of Oxford and Director of Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research, Europe's largest miscarriage research center.

Arshed A. Quyyumi

Arshed A. Quyyumi is a British-trained cardiologist, professor of medicine, and director of the Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute, known for showing coronary endothelial dysfunction predicts cardiovascular events.

Arthur A. Hurwitz

Arthur A. Hurwitz is a tumor immunology researcher who co-authored a 1998 study showing CTLA-4 blockade combined with a GM-CSF vaccine could regress mammary tumors.

Arthur A. Sasahara

Arthur A. Sasahara (born 1927) is an American cardiologist and thrombosis researcher, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, known for work on pulmonary embolism and thrombolytic therapy.

Arthur A.M. Wilde

Arthur A.M. Wilde (Arthur Wilde), born 1956, is a Dutch cardiologist and professor at Amsterdam UMC known for research on Brugada syndrome and long QT syndrome.

Arthur Bank

Arthur Bank is a physician-scientist in hematology and genetics at Columbia University in New York, known for research on the thalassemia syndromes and globin genes.

Arthur Christopoulos

Arthur Christopoulos is an Australian molecular pharmacologist, Professor of Analytical Pharmacology and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University, known for allosteric GPCR drug research.

Arthur Downes

Sir Arthur Henry Downes (1851–1938) was a British physician and public-health official who, with Thomas P. Blunt, first demonstrated in 1877 that sunlight kills bacteria, founding light disinfection.

Arthur E. Broadus

Arthur E. Broadus was an American endocrinologist at Yale School of Medicine who led its endocrinology section for two decades and identified PTHrP as the cause of cancer-related high blood calcium.

Arthur E. Weyman

Arthur E. Weyman, known as Ned Weyman, was an American cardiologist who helped develop echocardiography into the standard noninvasive technique for diagnosing heart disease, working at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard.

Arthur Felix

Arthur Felix (1887–1956) was a Polish-born bacteriologist and chemist who co-discovered the Weil–Felix typhus diagnostic test and identified the Vi antigen behind Britain's improved 1940s typhoid vaccine.

Arthur Isaac Kendall

Arthur Isaac Kendall (1877–1959) was an American bacteriologist and dean of Northwestern University Medical School known for bacterial metabolism studies and the unreplicated K medium claim.

Arthur J. Ammann

Arthur J. Ammann (1936–2021) was an American pediatric immunologist at UCSF whose pneumococcal vaccine trials produced the first FDA-approved pneumonia vaccine and who showed in 1982 that AIDS spreads from mother to infant.

Arthur J. Barsky

Arthur J. Barsky is an American psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, known for research on hypochondriasis, somatization, and placebo and nocebo effects.

Arthur J. Hartz

Arthur J. Hartz is an epidemiologist and observation medicine researcher known for 1989 and 2000 New England Journal of Medicine papers on hospital mortality and whether observational studies match randomized trials.

Arthur J. Moss

Arthur J. Moss, also known as Arthur Moss, was an American cardiologist at the University of Rochester whose MADIT trials made the implantable defibrillator standard treatment after heart attacks.

Arthur K. Asbury

Arthur K. Asbury (1928–2022) was an American neuromuscular neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania who chaired the committee that set the diagnostic criteria for Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Arthur L. Caplan

Arthur L. Caplan is an American bioethicist, Professor Emeritus and former head of medical ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who helped write national organ-donation policy.

Arthur L. Kellermann

Arthur L. Kellermann is an American emergency medicine physician whose New England Journal of Medicine studies measured the homicide and suicide risk of a gun kept in the home.

Arthur L. Reingold

Arthur L. Reingold is an American infectious disease epidemiologist, Distinguished Professor and epidemiology division head at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2003.