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William M. Crist
William M. Crist is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist whose career at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital included a 1991 NEJM study linking scheduled epipodophyllotoxin therapy to secondary leukemia in children.
William M. Grady
William M. Grady is an American gastroenterologist and cancer geneticist who leads the Gastrointestinal Cancer Prevention Program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle.
William M. Lee
William M. Lee is an American hepatologist and Professor Emeritus at UT Southwestern in Dallas who founded the Acute Liver Failure Study Group and documented acetaminophen-induced liver injury.
William M. McCormack
William M. McCormack (born 1938) is an American infectious diseases physician known for research on sexually transmitted infections, and Chief of Infectious Diseases at SUNY Downstate from 1982 to 2011.
William M. Thurlbeck
William M. Thurlbeck, known to colleagues as Whitey, was a South African-born Canadian pulmonary pathologist (1928–1997) who showed that small airways are the major site of obstruction in COPD.
William M. Tierney
William M. Tierney is an American physician and health services researcher known for building electronic health record systems in the United States and East Africa.
William Macewen
Sir William Macewen (1848–1924) was a Scottish surgeon in Glasgow who performed the first documented successful brain tumor resection in 1879, pioneered human bone grafting, and advanced aseptic surgery.
William Marston Linehan
William Marston Linehan, known as W. Marston Linehan, is an American urologic surgeon and cancer geneticist who identified genes causing hereditary kidney cancer at the National Cancer Institute.
William N. Lipscomb
William N. Lipscomb was an American physical chemist at Harvard University who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and bonding of boranes.
William N. Valentine
William N. Valentine was an American hematologist and physician-scientist who, as chairman of medicine at UCLA, established inherited red-cell enzyme deficiencies as a major cause of hereditary hemolytic anemia.
William O. Dobbins
William O. Dobbins (1932–2011) was an American gastroenterologist and physician-scientist who held professorships at Duke, George Washington, and Michigan, established rectal suction biopsy for Hirschsprung's disease, and researched Whipple's disease.
William Oh
William Oh is an American neonatologist who built the neonatal intensive care program at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence and studied fluid management in premature infants.
William P. Castelli
William P. Castelli (1931–2025) was an American cardiovascular epidemiologist who directed the Framingham Heart Study from 1979 to 1995 and established HDL cholesterol as protective against coronary heart disease.
William P. Murphy
William P. Murphy, also known as William Parry Murphy, was an American physician and hematologist at Harvard who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize for liver therapy in pernicious anemia.
William Pao
William Pao (born 1967) is an American physician-scientist in thoracic oncology known for identifying EGFR mutations in never smokers' lung cancers and mechanisms of drug resistance.
William Pollack (immunologist)
William Pollack (1926–2013) was a British-born American immunologist who, at Ortho Pharmaceuticals, developed RhoGAM, the 1968 anti-Rh injection that virtually eliminated Rh disease in newborns.
William R. Bishai
William R. Bishai, also known as William Bishai, is a physician and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins who studies the tuberculosis bacterium and co-directs its Center for Tuberculosis Research.
William R. Brugge
William R. Brugge is a gastroenterologist and Harvard Medical School professor who introduced endoscopic ultrasound to Massachusetts General Hospital in 1993 and led the 2004 cooperative pancreatic cyst study.
William R. Henderson
William R. Henderson, Jr. is an American allergist and immunologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for research on leukotrienes and the mechanisms of asthma.
William R. Hiatt
William R. Hiatt (1950–2020) was an American cardiologist at the University of Colorado who led the EUCLID and VOYAGER PAD trials in peripheral artery disease.
William R. Jarnagin
William R. Jarnagin is an American hepatopancreatobiliary surgeon who has led the Hepatopancreatobiliary Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2008, known for staging hilar cholangiocarcinoma.
William R. Jarvis
William R. Jarvis is an infectious diseases physician and healthcare-associated infection epidemiologist who led CDC hospital outbreak investigations from 1980 to 2003 and helped establish national infection surveillance.
William S. Weintraub
William S. Weintraub (William Weintraub) is an American cardiologist and outcomes researcher known for leading trials of medical therapy versus revascularization, including the COURAGE trial.
William S. Yancy
William S. Yancy Jr. is an American physician-investigator and Professor of Medicine at Duke University who studies dietary treatments for obesity and type 2 diabetes, including low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets.
William Schaffner
William Schaffner is an American infectious disease epidemiologist and Vanderbilt professor who chaired preventive medicine for three decades and is a widely quoted vaccine expert.
William Schief
William R. Schief is a professor of immunology and microbiology at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for germline-targeting immunogen design for HIV vaccines.
William Spreen
William Spreen (William R. Spreen) is a pharmaceutical scientist and Vice President at ViiV Healthcare who led clinical development of long-acting injectable cabotegravir for HIV.
William Stewart Halsted
William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922), first surgeon-in-chief of Johns Hopkins, pioneered the surgical residency model, rubber gloves, and the radical mastectomy, while hiding a lifelong cocaine and morphine addiction acquired during anesthesia research.
William T. Abraham
William T. Abraham is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at The Ohio State University who led landmark heart failure trials, including the MIRACLE trial of cardiac resynchronization therapy.
William T. Carpenter
William T. Carpenter is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher who directed the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center from 1977 to 2013 and defined deficit schizophrenia.