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Wallace A. Jones
Wallace A. Jones (1931–2011) was an American physician specializing in liver disease at Massachusetts General Hospital, best known for his 1961 review of external cardiac massage.
Wallace L.M. Alward
Wallace L.M. Alward is an American ophthalmologist and glaucoma specialist, emeritus professor at the University of Iowa, whose group described the first genetic linkage for open-angle glaucoma in 1993.
Walsh McDermott
Walsh McDermott (1909–1981) was an American infectious disease physician-scientist at Cornell University Medical College, known for tuberculosis research and the Many Farms experiment on the Navajo Nation.
Walter A. Orenstein
Walter A. Orenstein is an American vaccinologist who directed the CDC immunization program from 1988 to 2004, later served the Gates Foundation, and is a Professor Emeritus at Emory University.
Walter A. Rocca
Walter A. Rocca is an Italian-born American neurologist and epidemiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for research on dementia, Parkinson's disease, and oophorectomy.
Walter B. Shelley
Walter B. Shelley, born Walter Brown Shelley (1917–2009), was an American dermatologist who coined "keratinocyte" and chaired dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1965 to 1980.
Walter Bauer
Walter Bauer was an American rheumatologist who directed the Lovett Memorial Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, became Jackson Professor at Harvard in 1951, and died in 1963.
Walter C. Willett
Walter C. Willett, also known as Walter Willett, is an American physician and nutrition researcher at Harvard who led the Nurses' Health Studies of diet and chronic disease.
Walter Dean Rupp
Walter Dean Rupp, also known as W. Dean Rupp, Jr., is a radiobiologist and Professor Emeritus at Yale School of Medicine who co-developed the Maxicell technique with Aziz Sancar.
Walter E. Stamm
Walter E. Stamm (1945–2009) was an American infectious diseases physician-scientist at the University of Washington whose research redefined the diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections and clarified chlamydia's role in pelvic inflammatory disease.
Walter E. Stumpf
Walter E. Stumpf is a German-born physician-scientist and anatomist-endocrinologist who developed dry-mount and thaw-mount autoradiography, mapping steroid hormone and vitamin D target cells in more than fifty tissues.
Walter F. Bodmer
Walter F. Bodmer, also known as Walter Bodmer, is a British geneticist who became Oxford's first Professor of Genetics in 1970 and led the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
Walter F. O. Marasas
Walter Friedrich Otto Marasas was a South African mycotoxicologist at the Medical Research Council who led the PROMEC program and discovered the carcinogenic fumonisin toxins in maize in 1988.
Walter H. Abelmann
Walter H. Abelmann (1921–2011) was a German-born American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who defined high cardiac output states, published over 260 papers, and trained 68 cardiology fellows.
Walter H. Kaye
Walter H. Kaye is an American psychiatrist and eating-disorders researcher who founded the UCSD Eating Disorders Center and studies the neurobiology of anorexia and bulimia.
Walter J. Koch
Walter J. Koch is an American cardiovascular pharmacologist and professor at Duke University School of Medicine, known for research on GRK2 in heart failure and the βARKct gene therapy.
Walter J. Paulus
Walter J. Paulus is a Belgian cardiologist and professor of physiology at Amsterdam UMC whose 2013 paradigm paper attributed heart failure with preserved ejection fraction to comorbidity-driven coronary microvascular inflammation.
Walter J. Rogan
Walter J. Rogan is an American physician-epidemiologist who spent his career at NIEHS in North Carolina, known for breast-milk pollutant cohorts, the TLC succimer lead trial, and a 2005 DDT review.
Walter J. Urba
Walter J. Urba is an American oncologist who led cancer research at Providence's Earle A. Chiles Research Institute in Portland, Oregon, from 1993 to 2024.
Walter Kikuth
Walter Kikuth (1896–1968) was a German pharmacologist and tropical-medicine researcher who led IG Farben's chemotherapy research at Elberfeld, introduced the antimalarial Atebrin in 1932, and later taught in Düsseldorf.
Walter Koch (German pathologist)
Carl Eduard Walter Koch (1880–1962) was a German pathologist known for research on the cardiac conduction system and for the triangle of Koch, named in his honor.
Walter L. Peterson
Walter L. Peterson, also known as W L Peterson, was an American gastroenterologist at UT Southwestern known for clinical research on upper GI bleeding and peptic ulcers.
Walter O. Spitzer
Walter O. Spitzer (1937–2006) was a Paraguayan-born physician and epidemiologist who chaired McGill's epidemiology department and led landmark studies of asthma drugs and nurse practitioners.
Walter Pagel
Walter Pagel (1898–1983) was a German-born British pathologist and historian of medicine who wrote around 120 works on tuberculosis and major studies of Paracelsus and van Helmont.
Walter Plowright
Walter Plowright (1923–2010) was an English veterinary virologist who developed the tissue-culture rinderpest vaccine in Kenya from 1956, enabling the global eradication of rinderpest, declared in 2011 as the second disease after smallpox to be eradicated.
Walter Putnam Blount
Walter Putnam Blount (1900–1992) was an American orthopedic surgeon in Milwaukee whose 1937 description of tibia vara gave his name to Blount disease, and who introduced epiphyseal stapling.
Walter S. Burrage
Walter S. Burrage was an American allergist who directed the Allergy Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital and led the American Academy of Allergy in 1952.
Walter T. Hughes
Walter T. Hughes was an American pediatrician and infectious-disease physician-scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital whose 1977 trial established TMP-SMX as prophylaxis against Pneumocystis pneumonia in children with cancer.
Wanda K. Nicholson
Wanda K. Nicholson is an American physician-epidemiologist, professor at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, and Chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force.
Warfield Theobald Longcope
Warfield Theobald Longcope (1877–1953) was an American physician and pathologist who served as Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and Physician in Chief of its hospital from 1922 to 1946.