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Richard M. Weinshilboum
Richard M. Weinshilboum, also known as Richard Weinshilboum, is an American physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic who studies pharmacogenomics and helped put drug-gene testing into clinical practice.
Richard Mayeux
Richard Mayeux is an American neurologist and genetic epidemiologist at Columbia University who studies the epidemiology and genetics of Alzheimer's disease, leading the WHICAP cohort since 1989.
Richard MK Adanu
Richard MK Adanu is a Ghanaian obstetrician-gynecologist and epidemiologist who researches safe childbirth care and violence against women, and leads the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Richard N. Bergman
Richard N. Bergman is an American biomedical engineer and physiologist known for the minimal model of glucose regulation and the disposition index, key tools of diabetes research.
Richard O. Cannon
Richard O. Cannon III (born 1950) is an American cardiologist who spent forty years at the National Institutes of Health, leading a 1994 trial showing imipramine relieved chest pain.
Richard O. Hynes
Richard O. Hynes (1944–2026) was a cell and cancer biologist at MIT who discovered the fibronectin and integrin families of cell adhesion molecules, work honored with the 2022 Lasker Award.
Richard Otto (physician)
Richard Otto (1872–1952) was a German physician and bacteriologist at the Robert Koch institute in Berlin, known for work on serum hypersensitivity and plague immunization with Wilhelm Kolle.
Richard P. Wenzel
Richard P. Wenzel (R. P. Wenzel) is an American infectious diseases physician who built the field of hospital epidemiology and quantified the toll of hospital-acquired infections.
Richard Pazdur
Richard Pazdur is an American medical oncologist who led the FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence and shaped United States cancer drug approval for over 25 years.
Richard Peto
Sir Richard Peto, born 1943, is a British medical statistician and epidemiologist at Oxford, known for tobacco epidemiology, the logrank test, meta-analysis of randomized trials, and Peto's paradox.
Richard Pfeiffer (physician)
Richard Pfeiffer (1858–1945) was a German physician and bacteriologist of Robert Koch's school who discovered the influenza bacillus, coined "endotoxin", and described the Pfeiffer phenomenon.
Richard Platt (physician-epidemiologist)
Richard Platt is a physician-epidemiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who led the FDA's Sentinel System, using electronic health data from more than 175 million people for drug-safety surveillance.
Richard R. Liberthson
Richard R. Liberthson is an American cardiologist known for work on sudden cardiac death and for founding the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Richard S. Finkel
Richard S. Finkel is an American pediatric neurologist who directs the Center for Experimental Neurotherapeutics at St. Jude and led the nusinersen and risdiplam trials in spinal muscular atrophy.
Richard S. Finn
Richard S. Finn is an American medical oncologist and professor at UCLA known for leading clinical development of palbociclib in breast cancer and atezolizumab plus bevacizumab in liver cancer.
Richard S. Hotchkiss
Richard S. Hotchkiss is an American physician-scientist, professor at Washington University in St. Louis, internationally known for showing that immune cell death, not inflammation alone, drives sepsis mortality.
Richard S. Irwin
Richard S. Irwin is an American pulmonologist and Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, known for the anatomic diagnostic protocol for chronic cough and describing cough-variant asthma in 1979.
Richard S. Rivlin
Richard S. Rivlin is an American physician-scientist in internal medicine and nutrition who studied vitamin B2 metabolism and later built a research program on garlic compounds as potential cancer chemopreventive agents.
Richard S. Schottenfeld
Richard S. Schottenfeld is an American psychiatrist and addiction-medicine researcher known for clinical trials of buprenorphine and methadone for opioid dependence, first at Yale and since 2017 at Howard University.
Richard Schlegel
Richard Schlegel is an American viral oncologist and pathologist at Georgetown University Medical Center, known for work underpinning the HPV vaccine and for co-developing conditional reprogramming, a cell culture method.
Richard Seefelder
Richard Seefelder (1875–1949) was a German-born Austrian ophthalmologist who led the Innsbruck university eye clinic from 1919 and served as the university's rector in 1929/30.
Richard Shepherd (pathologist)
Richard Shepherd is a British forensic pathologist who spent over 30 years on the Home Office register, performed more than 23,000 postmortems, and wrote the memoir Unnatural Causes.
Richard Sullivan (oncologist)
Richard Sullivan (born 1968) is a British oncologist, Professor of Cancer and Global Health at King's College London and Director of its Institute of Cancer Policy.
Richard T. Smith
Richard T. Smith (1924–2014) was an American immunologist known for research on tumor immunity and T-cell biology and founding chair of pediatrics at the University of Florida.
Richard Thoma
Richard Andreas Thoma (1847–1923) was a German pathologist who held the pathology chair at Dorpat and gave his name to the Thoma microtome and blood-counting chamber.
Richard W. McCallum
Richard W. McCallum (1945–2025) was an Australian-born American gastroenterologist and founding chair of medicine at Texas Tech's El Paso medical school, known for gastroparesis and gastric electrical stimulation research.
Richard Warren
Richard Warren (1907–1999) was an American surgeon who spent fifty years on the Harvard Medical School faculty, known for work on arterial embolism and vascular surgery.
Richard Weller
Richard Weller is a British dermatologist at the University of Edinburgh whose research showed that ultraviolet light lowers blood pressure by releasing nitric oxide from the skin.
Richard Witter
Richard Witter, known as Richard L. Witter, is an American veterinarian and poultry-disease researcher who developed the first Marek's disease vaccine used in the United States.
Rick A. Nishimura
Rick A. Nishimura, born in Chicago in 1953, is an American cardiologist at Mayo Clinic known for valvular heart disease and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and for chairing the national guidelines on valvular heart disease.