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Ben Carson

Ben Carson (born 1951), retired pediatric neurosurgeon and HUD Secretary 2017-2021; led the first successful 1987 separation of head-conjoined twins at Johns Hopkins, ran for president in 2016, and was later named for a second Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Ben Goldacre

Ben Goldacre is a British doctor, academic, and writer known for the Guardian's Bad Science column and the AllTrials campaign; he leads the Bennett Institute at Oxford.

Ben J. Marais

Ben J. Marais (Barend Jacobus Marais) is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist known for research on childhood tuberculosis, and Director of the Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute since 2020.

Ben W. Mol

Ben W. Mol (Ben Willem Mol) is a Dutch-born obstetrician and gynecologist at Monash University in Melbourne whose trials on frozen embryo transfer and tubal flushing changed fertility guidelines.

Ben Z. Stanger

Ben Z. Stanger, also published as Ben Stanger, is an American physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how pancreatic cancer begins and spreads.

Benedict F. Massell

Benedict F. Massell (1906–2008) was an American physician and clinical researcher who led the first study showing penicillin could prevent rheumatic fever, at the House of the Good Samaritan in Boston.

Bengt I. Eriksson

Bengt I. Eriksson (Bengt Ingemar Eriksson) is a Swedish physician-scientist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg who led trials establishing desirudin, fondaparinux, and rivaroxaban for preventing thrombosis after hip surgery.

Bengt Winblad

Bengt Winblad (B. Winblad) is a Swedish physician and professor of geriatric medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for research on Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

Benjamin A. Alman

Benjamin A. Alman is an orthopedic surgeon and clinician-scientist who has chaired orthopedic surgery at Duke University since 2013, researching cartilage tumors, fracture repair, and osteoarthritis.

Benjamin A. Barnes

Benjamin A. Barnes was a surgeon and health-services researcher at Massachusetts General and Peter Bent Brigham hospitals in Boston, known for the 1977 book Costs, Risks and Benefits of Surgery.

Benjamin A. Lipsky

Benjamin A. Lipsky is an American infectious diseases physician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington who chaired IDSA and IWGDF diabetic foot infection guidelines and led the 2005 SIDESTEP trial.

Benjamin Alexander

Benjamin Alexander was a physician-scientist in blood coagulation research at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for describing serum prothrombin conversion accelerator (SPCA) in 1949.

Benjamin Besse

Benjamin Besse is a French medical oncologist specializing in thoracic cancers, Director of Clinical Research at Gustave Roussy since 2021 and known for biomarker-directed lung cancer trials.

Benjamin Burrows

Benjamin Burrows (1927–2002) was an American pulmonary physician-scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, known for epidemiological research on COPD and obstructive airway disease.

Benjamin D. Levine

Benjamin D. Levine, also known as Benjamin Levine, is an American cardiologist and exercise physiologist at UT Southwestern who founded the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine in 1992.

Benjamin Deneen

Benjamin Deneen is a neuroscientist and professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston who studies glial biology and cancer neuroscience, known for work on astrocytes, glioma, and ependymoma.

Benjamin Djulbegović

Benjamin Djulbegović is a physician-scientist in hematology and evidence-based medicine, a Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston since 2023.

Benjamin G. Druss

Benjamin G. Druss is an American psychiatrist and mental health services researcher, the Rosalynn Carter Chair in Mental Health at Emory University, known for work on excess mortality in serious mental illness.

Benjamin G. Ferris

Benjamin G. Ferris (1919–1996) was an American physician and environmental-health scientist at Harvard who helped found environmental epidemiology and initiated the Harvard Six Cities Study of air pollution.

Benjamin H. Landing

Benjamin H. Landing (1920–2000) was an American pediatric pathologist, a founder of pediatric pathology, who led the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles laboratories from 1961.

Benjamin Izar

Benjamin Izar is a German-born medical oncologist and cancer researcher at Columbia University who studies tumor single-cell genomics and resistance to immunotherapy, with a clinical focus on melanoma.

Benjamin J. Luft

Benjamin J. Luft is an infectious-disease physician-scientist at Stony Brook University, known for toxoplasmosis in AIDS, Lyme disease, and directing the World Trade Center Health and Wellness Program.

Benjamin J. Marsland

Benjamin J. Marsland is a New Zealand-born immunologist and professor at Monash University in Melbourne who studies how gut and lung microbes shape asthma and lung transplant failure.

Benjamin L. Ebert

Benjamin L. Ebert is an American physician-scientist in hematology known for research on clonal hematopoiesis and myelodysplastic syndromes, and President and CEO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since 2024.

Benjamin M. Banks

Benjamin M. Banks was an American gastroenterologist and clinical investigator at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School, known for research on ulcerative colitis and serum leucine aminopeptidase diagnostics.

Benjamin M. Scirica

Benjamin M. Scirica is an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he has practiced since 1999.

Benjamin Neel

Benjamin Neel is an American cancer biologist known for work on PTP1B and SHP2 signaling and cancer genomics, who directed the Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU.

Benjamin Solomon

Benjamin J. Solomon is an Australian medical oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, known for phase 3 trials of ALK inhibitors in lung cancer.

Benjamin T. Kile

Benjamin T. Kile, also known as Benjamin Kile, is an Australian hematology researcher who showed platelets carry a timed program of cell death and leads the Garvan Institute in Sydney.

Benjamin Tenney

Benjamin Tenney, Jr. was an American obstetrician-gynecologist and placental pathologist in Boston, affiliated with Harvard and Boston City Hospital, whose work shaped mid-twentieth-century understanding of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.