Medical and health researchers

Richard J. Cohen

Richard J. Cohen is an American physician-scientist in cardiac electrophysiology and biomedical engineering who joined the MIT faculty in 1979 and developed the microvolt T-wave alternans test for sudden cardiac death risk.

Richard J. Havel

Richard J. Havel (1925–2016) was an American physician and lipoprotein researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who developed the standard method for measuring plasma lipoproteins and directed its Cardiovascular Research Institute.

Richard J. Levine

Richard J. Levine was an American physician-scientist at the NICHD in Bethesda who led the CPEP trial and showed blood proteins predict preeclampsia weeks early.

Richard J. McManus

Richard J. McManus is a British general practitioner and professor of primary care research whose hypertension self-monitoring trials changed national guidelines; he became Dean of Brighton and Sussex Medical School in 2024.

Richard J. O’Reilly

Richard J. O'Reilly is a physician who founded the pediatric bone marrow transplant program at Memorial Sloan Kettering, pioneered unrelated and half-matched donors, and chaired its pediatrics department from 1986 to 2016.

Richard J. Sherins

Richard J. Sherins (1937–2024) was an American reproductive endocrinologist and andrologist whose NIH studies showed that chemotherapy damages testicular germ cells in an age- and dose-dependent way.

Richard J. Webby

Richard J. Webby, also known as Richard Webby, is a New Zealand-born virologist at St. Jude in Memphis who studies how influenza viruses move from animals into humans.

Richard Joseph Jackson

Richard Joseph Jackson is an American pediatrician and epidemiologist at UCLA who led the CDC's environmental health center and linked community design to chronic disease.

Richard K. Burt

Richard K. Burt is an American physician-scientist who built and led Northwestern University's stem-cell transplantation program for autoimmune diseases, then retired and now practices hematology in La Jolla, California.

Richard Kolesnick

Richard N. Kolesnick is a physician-scientist and molecular pharmacologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center whose laboratory discovered the sphingomyelin/ceramide signaling pathway, a stress response triggering cell death.

Richard L. Gallo

Richard L. Gallo is an American dermatologist and physician-scientist, founding chair of dermatology at UC San Diego, known for discovering antimicrobial peptides in mammalian skin.

Richard L. Guerrant

Richard L. Guerrant is an American infectious diseases physician at the University of Virginia known for showing childhood diarrhea causes lasting malnutrition and cognitive impairment.

Richard L. Kradin

Richard L. Kradin is an American physician-scientist in pulmonary medicine and pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for research on pulmonary immunity and asbestos-related lung disease.

Richard L. Moss

Richard L. Moss is an American cardiac physiologist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying how calcium and mechanical stretch regulate contraction in heart and skeletal muscle.

Richard L. Naeye

Richard L. Naeye was an American perinatal pathologist and founding chair of pathology at Penn State College of Medicine, known for research on sudden infant death syndrome.

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Richard L. Neu

Richard L. Neu was a medical researcher best known as first author of the 1971 Pediatrics paper that first described the lethal multiple-congenital-anomaly disorder now called Neu-Laxova syndrome.

Richard L. Popp

Richard L. Popp is an American cardiologist and Stanford emeritus professor who developed echocardiography into routine cardiac diagnosis, published over 300 papers, and served as president of the American College of Cardiology.

Richard L. Schilsky

Richard L. Schilsky is an American medical oncologist at the University of Chicago who led a 2003 aspirin trial preventing colorectal adenomas and served as ASCO's first Chief Medical Officer.

Richard L. Tannen

Richard L. Tannen was an American nephrologist and emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on renal ammoniagenesis and acid-base and potassium homeostasis.

Richard L. Wahl

Richard L. Wahl is an American nuclear medicine physician and radiologist who led the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology from 2014 to 2023 and created the PERCIST criteria for measuring tumor response on PET scans.

Richard Leo Wahl

Richard Leo Wahl is an American nuclear medicine physician-scientist at Washington University known for developing the PERCIST criteria for measuring cancer treatment response on PET scans.

Richard Lilford

Richard J. Lilford is a British professor of public health at the University of Birmingham who began in obstetrics and led the 2016 Lancet slum health series.

Richard Lorne Ehman

Richard Lorne Ehman is a Canadian-born American radiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, best known as the inventor of magnetic resonance elastography and a 2010 member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Richard M. Bergenstal

Richard M. Bergenstal is an American endocrinologist and Medical Director of the International Diabetes Center in Minneapolis, known for standardizing continuous glucose monitoring through the Ambulatory Glucose Profile.

Richard M. Hays

Richard M. Hays is a physician and renal physiologist long based at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for research on antidiuretic hormone and water movement across epithelia.

Richard M. Krause

Richard M. Krause was an American immunologist and microbiologist who directed NIAID from 1975 to 1984, through the early AIDS epidemic, after streptococcal and antibody genetics research at Rockefeller University.

Richard M. Ransohoff

Richard M. Ransohoff is an American neurologist and neuroinflammation researcher who spent 30 years at the Cleveland Clinic and won the 2012 John Dystel Prize for multiple sclerosis research.

Richard M. Schwartzstein

Richard M. Schwartzstein is an American pulmonologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, known for his 1995 New England Journal of Medicine review of dyspnea.

Richard M. Sharpe

Richard M. Sharpe is a reproductive biologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, known for the 1993 estrogen hypothesis and the testicular dysgenesis syndrome hypothesis.