Medical and health researchers

Soumya Swaminathan

Soumya Swaminathan is an Indian pediatrician and tuberculosis and HIV researcher who served as the World Health Organization's first Chief Scientist from 2019 to 2022.

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Soyapi L Mumba

Soyapi L Mumba is a Malawian health-informatics researcher and TED Fellow who, as a director at Baobab Health Trust in Lilongwe, led development of Malawi's national electronic health record system.

Spencer B. King

Spencer B. King is an American interventional cardiologist in Atlanta who led the EAST trial of angioplasty versus bypass surgery and built Emory's interventional cardiology program.

Spotswood L. Spruance is an American infectious-disease physician and epidemiologist, emeritus at the University of Utah, known for defining the natural history of recurrent herpes simplex infections.

Spyridon G.A. Alivisatos

Spyridon G.A. Alivisatos, also published as S.G.A. Alivisatos, was a biochemist and neuropharmacologist trained at McGill University who studied how serotonin binds at receptors in the brain.

Srđan Verstovšek

Srdan Verstovsek (Srđan Verstovšek) is a hematologist-oncologist, Chief Medical Officer of Kartos Therapeutics since 2023, formerly of MD Anderson, known for leading the COMFORT-I and MOMENTUM trials of the first myelofibrosis drugs.

Srinivas R. Viswanathan

Srinivas R. Viswanathan, MD, PhD, is a medical oncologist and cancer genomics researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who studies prostate and kidney cancers.

Sripal Bangalore

Sripal Bangalore is an interventional cardiologist and outcomes researcher, Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Bellevue Hospital.

Stacie B. Dusetzina

Stacie B. Dusetzina is an American pharmacoepidemiologist and health services researcher at Vanderbilt University whose research on Medicare drug costs informed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

Stacy Sims

Stacy T. Sims, exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist (PhD, University of Otago, 2006), senior research associate at AUT's SPRINZ and adjunct at Stanford Lifestyle Medicine; author of ROAR and Next Level and lead author of the 2023 ISSN female athlete nutrition position stand; known for "women are not small men" and later retracting menstrual phase-based training advice.

Stanford Wessler

Stanford Wessler was an American physician-scientist in internal medicine who researched thrombosis at Harvard and Beth Israel Hospital, later led Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, and challenged Buerger's disease in 1960.

Stanislas Pol

Stanislas Pol is a French hepatologist, professor at Université Paris Descartes and head of the hepatology department at Hôpital Cochin in Paris, known for coordinating the ANRS HEPATHER cohort study of hepatitis C treatment.

Stanley C. Jordan

Stanley C. Jordan is an American transplant nephrologist and immunologist who directs nephrology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, known for antibody-removal desensitization therapies enabling HLA-incompatible kidney transplants.

Stanley E. Bradley

Stanley E. Bradley (1913–1999) was an American renal physiologist and physician-scientist at Columbia University, known for work on the renal and hepatic circulations and the nephrotic syndrome.

Stanley Fahn

Stanley Fahn is an American neurologist and emeritus professor at Columbia University, widely described as a founder of movement disorders, who led the ELLDOPA trial and founded the Movement Disorder Society.

Stanley J. Szefler

Stanley J. Szefler is an American pediatric allergist-immunologist who directed the Pediatric Asthma Research Program at Children's Hospital Colorado, individualizing childhood asthma therapy, and retired in 2026.

Stanley J. Watson

Stanley J. Watson Jr is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist at the University of Michigan Medical School known for mapping brain opioid systems and psychiatric genomics.

Stanley J. Wolfe

Stanley J. Wolfe (1923–2018) was an American physician and liver researcher at Harvard Medical School and Boston City Hospital, later a gastroenterologist and clinical professor at UCSF.

Stanley L. Hazen

Stanley L. Hazen is an American physician-scientist at the Cleveland Clinic who discovered that gut microbes convert dietary choline and L-carnitine into TMAO, a metabolite linked to atherosclerosis.

Stanley M Lemon

Stanley M. Lemon is a physician-scientist in viral hepatitis, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Stanley Nattel

Stanley Nattel, born in 1951, is a Canadian cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal, a global authority on atrial fibrillation appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2024.

Stanley P. Azen

Stanley P. Azen is an American biostatistician and epidemiologist at the University of Southern California, co-author of the EPAT and ELITE estrogen trials and the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study.

Stanley Perlman

Stanley Perlman is a coronavirus researcher and professor of microbiology and pediatrics at the University of Iowa, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Stanley Plotkin

Stanley A. Plotkin is an American vaccinologist who developed the RA 27/3 rubella vaccine at the Wistar Institute in the 1960s and edited the standard textbook, Plotkin's Vaccines.

Stanley R. Hamilton

Stanley R. Hamilton is an American gastrointestinal and molecular pathologist known for colorectal cancer genetics work and for chairing pathology at City of Hope from 2020 to 2025.

Stanley Riddell

Stanley R. Riddell is a tumor immunologist and physician-scientist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center who pioneered adoptive T cell therapy for cancer and co-founded Juno Therapeutics in 2013.

Stanley Shaldon

Stanley Shaldon (1931–2013) was a British nephrologist who pioneered the percutaneous Shaldon catheter for dialysis access, introduced home and nocturnal dialysis in the UK, and won the 2011 ERA-EDTA Award.

Stanton A. Glantz

Stanton A. Glantz, also known as Stanton Glantz, is an American researcher and retired UCSF professor of medicine known for analyzing tobacco industry documents and shaping smoke-free air policy.

Stavros Konstantinides

Stavros V. Konstantinides (Greek: Σταύρος Κωνσταντινίδης) is a Greek-born German cardiologist who has spent 35 years studying pulmonary embolism and designed the 2014 PEITHO trial.