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Sheila K. West

Sheila K. West is an American ophthalmic epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute whose face-washing and azithromycin trials in Kongwa, Tanzania, informed WHO trachoma control guidelines.

Sheila L. Arvikar

Sheila L. Arvikar, also published as Sheila Leah Arvikar and S. Arvikar, is an American rheumatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who studies and treats Lyme arthritis.

Sheila Sherlock

Sheila Sherlock was a British physician who built hepatology into a distinct specialty and became the first woman professor of medicine in the UK, at the Royal Free Hospital from 1959.

Shekhar Saxena

Shekhar Saxena is an Indian psychiatrist who directed the World Health Organization's Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse from 2010 to 2018, then became a Harvard professor.

Shekinah Elmore

Shekinah Elmore was an American radiation oncologist and global oncology researcher at UNC Chapel Hill who, diagnosed with two cancers at 27, wrote publicly about living with Li-Fraumeni syndrome.

Sheldon Cohen

Sheldon Cohen, born 1947, is an American psychologist at Carnegie Mellon known for viral-challenge experiments showing psychological stress and social relationships affect immunity and cold susceptibility.

Sheldon H. Landesman

Sheldon H. Landesman is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, best known for research on mother-to-child transmission of HIV and early responses to the AIDS epidemic in New York.

Shelley Berger

Shelley L. Berger is an American molecular biologist studying chromatin and epigenetics, the Daniel S. Och University Professor at Penn and a National Academy of Sciences member.

Shelly Bernstein

Shelly C. Bernstein is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist and 1984 MacArthur Fellow, recognized at age 33 for cancer genetics research, who has practiced community pediatrics in Weston, Massachusetts since 1990.

Shelly P. Dev

Shelly P. Dev, also known as Shelly Dev, is a Canadian critical care physician and medical educator who has been a staff intensivist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto since 2006.

Shen‐Ying Zhang

Shen-Ying Zhang (born 1971) is a physician-scientist in immunology who studies the human genetics of severe viral brain infections, best known for linking childhood herpes simplex encephalitis to single-gene defects.

Sherene Loi

Sherene Loi is an Australian medical oncologist who heads a breast cancer genomics lab at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne and led early immunotherapy trials in breast cancer.

Sheri McCoy

Sheri McCoy is an American chemical engineer who spent 30 years at Johnson & Johnson and served as CEO of Avon Products from 2012 to 2018.

Sherif F. Nagueh

Sherif F. Nagueh is an Egyptian-born American cardiologist at Houston Methodist whose tissue Doppler work, including the E/e′ ratio, shaped how echocardiography estimates filling pressures.

Sherif R. Zaki

Sherif R. Zaki (1956–2021) was an Egyptian-born American infectious disease pathologist who founded and led the CDC's Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch from the early 1990s.

Sherin U. Devaskar

Sherin U. Devaskar is an American pediatrician-scientist and neonatologist at UCLA. She is known for her research on prenatal environment programming and received the 2021 John Howland Award.

Sherine E. Gabriel

Sherine E. Gabriel is a rheumatologist and epidemiologist known for population studies of rheumatic disease and for leading Mayo Medical School, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and Rush University.

Sherman James

Sherman James is an American social epidemiologist, emeritus professor at Duke University and originator of the John Henryism hypothesis, which links high-effort coping with adversity to hypertension among Black Americans.

Sherrill J. Slichter

Sherrill J. Slichter was an American hematologist and transfusion-medicine researcher who spent over four decades at the Puget Sound Blood Center in Seattle, revolutionizing platelet transfusion therapy.

Sherwood Moore

Sherwood Moore (1880–1963) was an American radiologist who became the first professor of radiology at Washington University, founded the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, and co-developed cholecystography, the x-ray imaging of the gallbladder.

Sherwood Washburn

Sherwood Washburn (1911–2000) was an American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at Berkeley, called the father of modern primatology, who reshaped the study of human origins.

Shibani S. Mukerji

Shibani S. Mukerji is an American neurologist and neuro-infectious diseases researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for work on HIV and COVID-19 neurology.

Shields Warren

Shields Warren (1898–1980) was an American pathologist and Harvard professor who pioneered radiation pathology and served as the first director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Biology and Medicine.

Shigeru Kinoshita

Shigeru Kinoshita (木下 茂) is a Japanese ophthalmologist and professor at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, known for cultivated corneal endothelial cell therapy for bullous keratopathy.

Shigetake Sasayama

Shigetake Sasayama (篠山 重威) is a Japanese cardiologist and physician-scientist, professor of cardiovascular medicine at Kyoto University from 1991 to 2001, known for research on cytokines in heart failure.

Shimon Glick

Shimon Glick (born 1932) is an Israeli physician-scientist and endocrinologist who helped found Ben-Gurion University's Faculty of Health Sciences in 1974 and served as its dean.

Shingo Kajimura

Shingo Kajimura is a cell biologist studying brown and beige fat and energy metabolism, a Harvard Medical School professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2022.

Shiro Ikegawa

Shiro Ikegawa (池川 志郎) is a Japanese medical geneticist and orthopedic surgeon who led RIKEN's Laboratory for Bone and Joint Diseases in Tokyo for over two decades.

Shitij Kapur

Shitij Kapur is a psychiatrist and psychopharmacology researcher who has led King's College London as Vice-Chancellor since 2021, known for the aberrant-salience framework of psychosis and research on antipsychotic drugs and dopamine.

Shiv Kumar Sarin

Shiv Kumar Sarin is an Indian hepatologist who heads the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi and created the standard classification of gastric varices.