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Brian L. Strom

Brian L. Strom is an American pharmacoepidemiologist, one of the founders of the field, who served as inaugural Chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences from 2013 to 2025.

Brian M. Wolpin

Brian M. Wolpin is an American medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who directs pancreatic cancer research there and showed branched-chain amino acids rise years before pancreatic cancer diagnosis.

Brian MacMahon

Brian MacMahon (1923–2007) was a cancer epidemiologist who chaired the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1958 to 1989 and wrote its standard textbook.

Brian O’Rourke

Brian O'Rourke is an American cardiac physiologist at Johns Hopkins who studies how mitochondria supply energy in heart cells and how its failure causes arrhythmia and heart failure.

Brian P. Kavanagh

Brian P. Kavanagh (1962–2019) was an Irish-born Canadian critical care physician and anesthesiologist at Toronto known for research on carbon dioxide and ventilator-induced lung injury.

Brian R. Edlin

Brian R. Edlin is an American physician and epidemiologist who became Chief Medical Officer of the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention in 2016.

Brian T. Bateman

Brian T. Bateman is an American anesthesiologist and pharmacoepidemiologist who became chair of anesthesiology at Stanford in 2021, after leading obstetric anesthesia at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and studies medication safety in pregnancy.

Brian W. McCrindle

Brian W. McCrindle is a Canadian pediatric cardiologist and University of Toronto professor at SickKids who first-authored the American Heart Association's 2017 Kawasaki disease statement.

Brigitte A. Askonas

Brigitte A. Askonas was an Austrian-born British immunologist who first cloned B cells and headed the immunology division at London's National Institute for Medical Research.

Brigitte C. Widemann

Brigitte C. Widemann is a German-trained pediatric oncologist who is Chief of the Pediatric Oncology Branch at the National Cancer Institute, known for developing selumetinib for NF1.

Britt Wray

Britt Wray is a human and planetary health researcher, author, and broadcaster who directs CIRCLE at Stanford School of Medicine, studying climate change's mental health impacts on young people.

Brock Chisholm

George Brock Chisholm (1896–1971) was a Canadian psychiatrist, wartime chief of Canadian Army medicine, and the first director-general of the World Health Organization, serving from 1948 to 1953.

Bronislaw Onuf-Onufrowicz

Bronislaw Onuf-Onufrowicz (1863–1928) was an American neuroanatomist and neuropsychiatrist who in 1899 identified Onuf's nucleus, the spinal structure controlling the external urethral and anal sphincters.

Brooke T. Mossman

Brooke T. Mossman (Brooke Taylor Mossman) is an American cell biologist and fiber-toxicology researcher, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Vermont.

Bruce A. Chabner

Bruce A. Chabner is an American medical oncologist and clinical pharmacologist known for developing paclitaxel and leading the National Cancer Institute's cancer treatment division before joining Massachusetts General Hospital.

Bruce A. Julian

Bruce A. Julian is an American nephrologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham known for research on IgA nephropathy and for establishing that it runs in families.

Bruce A. Perkins

Bruce A. Perkins is a Canadian endocrinologist at the University of Toronto who researches prediction and prevention of type 1 diabetes complications, including kidney disease and nerve injury.

Bruce A. Runyon

Bruce A. Runyon is an American hepatologist whose 1992 study established the serum-ascites albumin gradient as the standard test for ascites, and who wrote the AASLD ascites guideline.

Bruce A. Sullenger

Bruce A. Sullenger is an American molecular biologist and Beard Distinguished Professor of Experimental Surgery at Duke University, known for aptamer antidotes and RNA-based therapeutics.

Bruce A. Yankner

Bruce A. Yankner is a Harvard Medical School professor of genetics and neurology whose laboratory showed amyloid beta is toxic to neurons and defined the aging brain's transcriptome.

Bruce Arroll

Bruce Arroll is a New Zealand general practitioner and professor of general practice at the University of Auckland, known for research on hypertension, depression screening, and venous leg ulcers.

Bruce Cree

Bruce A. C. Cree is a neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher at UCSF, where he is Clinical Research Director of the UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center and led trials of ublituximab and inebilizumab.

Bruce D. Cheson

Bruce D. Cheson is an American hematologist-oncologist who led the NCI's Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program Medicine Section from 1986 to 2002, then held a chair at Georgetown.

Bruce D. Levy

Bruce D. Levy is an American physician-scientist in pulmonary and critical care medicine who studies how lung inflammation resolves, appointed dean of WashU Medicine in 2026.

Bruce D. Trapp

Bruce D. Trapp is an American neuroscientist who chairs Neurosciences at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute, known for the 1998 finding that axons are injured in multiple sclerosis.

Bruce D. Weintraub

Bruce D. Weintraub is an American endocrinologist who directed thyroid research at NIH, co-invented recombinant human TSH (Thyrogen), approved in 1998, and co-founded the biotech firm Trophogen.

Bruce E. Hillner

Bruce E. Hillner is an American physician-researcher in oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University, known for cost-effectiveness analysis of cancer care and the 2011 NEJM article "Bending the Cost Curve in Cancer Care."

Bruce E. Johnson

Bruce E. Johnson is an American medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher at Dana-Farber and Harvard, who led trials of dabrafenib plus trametinib and served as ASCO president in 2017.

Bruce E. Landon

Bruce E. Landon is an American physician and health services researcher, professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School who studies payment reform and Medicare.

Bruce E. Sands

Bruce E. Sands is an American gastroenterologist and clinical researcher in inflammatory bowel disease, chief of gastroenterology at Mount Sinai since 2010 after Harvard and Massachusetts General.