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Werner Seeger
Werner Seeger, born 1953 in Herford, Germany, is a German pulmonary physician-scientist at Giessen whose trials established inhaled vasodilator therapy for pulmonary hypertension and tested surfactant in ARDS.
Wesley Le Mars Nyborg
Wesley Le Mars Nyborg (1917–2011) was an American physicist at the University of Vermont whose acoustic streaming theory underlies medical ultrasound safety criteria; elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996.
Wesley W. Spink
Wesley W. Spink (1904–1988) was an American infectious diseases physician-researcher at the University of Minnesota whose research on brucellosis led to Minnesota's 1950 milk pasteurization law.
Wiebke Arlt
Wiebke Arlt is a German-trained physician-scientist in steroid endocrinology who directs the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in London, pioneered steroid metabolomics, and became the first woman President of the European Society of Endocrinology.
Wiesje M. van der Flier
Wiesje M. van der Flier (born 1975) is a Dutch neuropsychologist who led the Alzheimer Center Amsterdam and became executive director of Alzheimer Nederland in 2025.
Wilbert S. Aronow
Wilbert S. Aronow is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College and Director of Cardiology Research at Westchester Medical Center, known for 1970s angina studies.
Wilbur Sawyer
Wilbur Augustus Sawyer (1879–1951) was an American public health administrator who directed the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division and produced the first effective yellow fever vaccine.
Wilbur Scoville
Wilbur Scoville was an American pharmacist and analytical chemist at Parke-Davis who invented the Scoville Organoleptic Test in 1912, origin of the Scoville Heat Unit.
Wilder Penfield
Wilder Graves Penfield (1891–1976), Canadian neurosurgeon at McGill; founded the Montreal Neurological Institute (1934) and devised the Montreal procedure, mapping the cortex and homunculi in awake epilepsy patients.
Wilfredo F. Garcia-Beltran
Wilfredo F. Garcia-Beltran is a Puerto Rican-born immunologist and transfusion medicine physician who leads a laboratory at the Ragon Institute and studies natural killer cells for cancer therapy.
Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner
Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner (1867–1949) was a German-born Dutch malariologist and professor of tropical hygiene at the University of Amsterdam, known for Schüffner's dots, the red stippling in red cells infected with Plasmodium vivax.
Wilhelm Burgdorfer
Wilhelm "Willy" Burgdorfer was a Swiss-born medical entomologist at the NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, who in 1981 discovered the spirochete causing Lyme disease, named Borrelia burgdorferi in his honor.
Wilhelm Camerer
Wilhelm Camerer (1842–1910) was a German physician and physiologist who, as a district medical officer in Württemberg, produced foundational data on infant feeding and childhood metabolism.
Wilhelm Heinrich Erb
Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840–1921) was a German neurologist, often called the founding father of German neurology, known for Erb's palsy, electrodiagnosis, the knee jerk, and linking tabes to syphilis.
Wilhelm His (cardiologist)
Wilhelm His Jr. was a Swiss-born cardiologist who worked in Germany and in 1893 gave the first description of the heart's atrioventricular bundle, now named the bundle of His.
Wilhelm Kiesselbach
Wilhelm Kiesselbach (1839–1902) was a German ear, nose, and throat physician who spent his career at Erlangen; Kiesselbach's plexus, the source of most nosebleeds, is named for him.
Wilhelm Kolle
Wilhelm Kolle was a German bacteriologist who trained under Robert Koch, founded cholera protective vaccination, and succeeded Paul Ehrlich as director of two Frankfurt research institutes.
Wilhelm Stepp
Wilhelm Stepp (1882–1964) was a German physician and internist whose 1909 lipoid-free diet experiments gave early evidence for fat-soluble vitamins, before the vitamin concept existed.
Will Weaver
Will Weaver, who publishes as W. Douglas Weaver, is an American cardiologist known for emergency cardiac care research at the University of Washington and Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.
Willa A. Hsueh
Willa A. Hsueh is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism who directs the Diabetes and Metabolism Research Center at Ohio State University, studying how inflammation drives metabolic disease.
Willard Cates
Willard Cates Jr. (1942–2016), known as Ward Cates, was an American physician-epidemiologist who led CDC abortion surveillance and STD prevention, then HIV prevention research at FHI 360.
Willem Johan Kolff
Willem Johan Kolff (1911–2009) was a Dutch physician who built the first working artificial kidney in occupied Netherlands and led the team behind the first permanent artificial heart implant.
William A. Blanc
William A. Blanc was an American pathologist at Columbia University and Penn State who defined the amniotic infection syndrome and studied fetal, placental, and newborn infection.
William A. Gahl
William A. Gahl is an American physician-scientist at NIH who defined the cellular defect in cystinosis, brought cysteamine therapy to FDA approval, and founded the Undiagnosed Diseases Program in 2008.
William A. Gray
William A. Gray is an American interventional cardiologist, System Chief of Cardiovascular Diseases at Main Line Health and Co-Director of the Lankenau Heart Institute since 2016.
William A. Müller
William A. Muller is a pathologist and professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine known for defining the molecules and mechanisms of diapedesis, how white blood cells cross blood vessel walls.
William A. Peck
William A. Peck was an American physician-scientist and bone biologist at Washington University School of Medicine who developed the first method for directly studying bone cells.
William A. Petri
William A. Petri is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at the University of Virginia, a Wade Hampton Frost Professor known for research on amebiasis, Shigella, and enteric infections.
William A. Pettinger
William A. Pettinger is an American cardiovascular pharmacologist who founded the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at UT Southwestern and shaped drug treatment of resistant hypertension.
William A. Robinson
William A. Robinson is an American oncologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado, the first to report colony-stimulating activity in human urine.