Medical and health researchers

Samuel Klein (physician)

Samuel Klein is an American physician and obesity researcher who directs the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, with more than 500 papers.

Samuel L. Katz

Samuel L. Katz (1927–2022) was an American pediatrician and virologist who co-developed the attenuated measles vaccine, licensed in 1963, and chaired pediatrics at Duke University from 1968 to 1990.

Samuel Livingston (1908–1984) was an American physician and epilepsy researcher who directed the Johns Hopkins Epilepsy Clinic from 1946 to 1973, supervising treatment of more than 33,000 patients with epilepsy.

Samuel N. Heyman

Samuel N. Heyman is an Israeli nephrologist and professor emeritus at Hebrew University whose work established renal medullary hypoxia as a central mechanism in contrast-induced nephropathy.

Samuel O. Freedman

Samuel O. Freedman is a Canadian clinical immunologist who co-discovered carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) at McGill in 1965 and later served as McGill's Dean of Medicine.

Samuel Refetoff

Samuel Refetoff is a Bulgarian-born, Belgian-raised physician-scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Chicago known for discovering resistance to thyroid hormone, called Refetoff syndrome, in 1967.

Samuel S. Gidding

Samuel S. Gidding is an American pediatric and preventive cardiologist known for familial hypercholesterolemia research, who chaired the American Heart Association's 2015 FH statement and joined Geisinger in 2020.

Samuel S. Myers

Samuel S. Myers, also known as Samuel Myers, is an American physician-scientist who directs the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health and studies how environmental change affects human health.

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Samuel S.C. Yen

Samuel S.C. Yen (1927–2006) was a reproductive endocrinologist and neuroendocrine researcher at UC San Diego who led NIH-funded studies of DHEA, PCOS, athletic amenorrhea, and the menstrual cycle.

Samuel Saslaw

Samuel Saslaw was an American infectious diseases researcher and physician at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, known for volunteer challenge studies of tularemia vaccines.

Samuel Shapiro (epidemiologist)

Samuel Shapiro is a Boston-based physician-epidemiologist who moved from clinical medicine to drug-safety surveillance after arriving in the United States in 1967, co-founding Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center.

Samuel Singer

Samuel Singer is a surgical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York who specializes in soft tissue sarcoma and directs the MSK Sarcoma Center.

Samuel Strober

Samuel Strober (1940–2022) was an American immunologist at Stanford University who developed radiation-based conditioning to induce immune tolerance in transplantation, freeing about 80% of matched kidney recipients from immunosuppression.

Samuel T. Darling

Samuel Taylor Darling (1872–1925) was an American pathologist, chief of the Panama Canal Zone health laboratories, discoverer of histoplasmosis, and a malaria specialist killed in a car accident near Beirut in 1925.

Samuel Z. Goldhaber

Samuel Z. Goldhaber is an American cardiologist who directs the Thrombosis Research Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.

Samuele Cortese

Samuele Cortese is an Italian-born child psychiatrist and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Southampton, known for large meta-analyses of ADHD treatment.

Samy Suissa

Samy Suissa is a Canadian pharmacoepidemiologist at McGill University who heads CNODES, a national drug safety network, and is known for studies showing inhaled corticosteroids prevent asthma deaths.

Sana M. Al‐Khatib

Sana M. Al-Khatib is a Professor of Medicine at Duke University and clinical cardiac electrophysiologist known for research on implantable defibrillators and for chairing the 2017 AHA/ACC/HRS sudden cardiac death guideline.

Sandeep S. Davé

Sandeep S. Davé, also published as Sandeep Dave, is a physician-scientist and Wellcome Clinical Distinguished Professor at Duke University known for genomic methods that reclassify lymphomas and predict survival.

Sanders T. Frank

Sanders T. Frank was an American pulmonologist known for Frank's sign, the diagonal earlobe crease he reported in 1973 as a marker of coronary artery disease.

Sandra A. Daugherty

Sandra A. Daugherty was an American physician and epidemiologist who won the 1980 Lasker Award for hypertension research and taught at the University of Nevada.

Sandra J. Bliss

Sandra J. Bliss, M.D., was a University of Michigan physician and first author of three New England Journal of Medicine Clinical Problem-Solving case reports, 2002 to 2004.

Sandra J. Horning

Sandra J. Horning is an American medical oncologist, Stanford professor emerita, who developed the Stanford V regimen and later served as Roche's chief medical officer.

Sandra M. Swain

Sandra M. Swain is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer who led the CLEOPATRA trial and was president of ASCO from 2012 to 2013.

Sep 17, 2026

Sandra McAllister

Sandra S. McAllister is an American cancer biologist, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering Systemic Instigation, whereby distant tumors stimulate growth of indolent metastases.

Sandro Galea

Sandro Galea is a physician and epidemiologist who became dean of Washington University's School of Public Health in 2025 after a decade leading Boston University's.

Sandro Vento

Sandro Vento is an Italian-trained infectious diseases physician-researcher known for a 1998 New England Journal of Medicine study showing hepatitis A superinfection runs a frequently fatal course in chronic hepatitis C patients.

Sanford B. Krantz

Sanford B. Krantz was an American physician-scientist and hematologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who established pure red-cell aplasia as an autoimmune disease treatable with immunosuppressive drugs.

Sanford D. Markowitz

Sanford D. Markowitz is an American medical oncologist and cancer geneticist at Case Western Reserve University whose laboratory identified key colon cancer genes and founded Rodeo Therapeutics, sold to Amgen in 2021.