Medical and health researchers

Carlo Catassi

Carlo Catassi is an Italian pediatric gastroenterologist and Full Professor of Pediatrics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, known for research on celiac disease epidemiology.

Carlo Ferrari is an Italian physician-scientist in the immunopathogenesis of viral hepatitis, full professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Parma and director of its hospital's hepatology unit since 1999.

Carlo Forlanini

Carlo Forlanini (1847–1918) was an Italian physician who invented therapeutic artificial pneumothorax, collapsing the tuberculous lung with nitrogen gas as the first effective tuberculosis treatment before antibiotics.

Carlo La Vecchia

Carlo La Vecchia is an Italian medical statistician and cancer epidemiologist at the Mario Negri Institute and University of Milan, known for large case-control studies quantifying cancer risk factors.

Carlo Pappone

Carlo Pappone, born in 1961, is an Italian cardiac electrophysiologist who developed the Pappone approach to atrial fibrillation ablation and heads arrhythmology at IRCCS Policlinico San Donato in Milan.

Carlo Patrono

Carlo Patrono is an Italian clinical pharmacologist known for establishing low-dose aspirin as an antithrombotic drug, honored with the Institut de France's 2013 Grand Prix Scientifique.

Carlo Salvarani

Carlo Salvarani (born 1954 in Reggio Emilia) is an Italian rheumatologist who directed rheumatology in Reggio Emilia and Modena, collaborated with the Mayo Clinic, and researched vasculitis.

Carlos A. Camargo

Carlos A. Camargo is an American emergency physician and epidemiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who founded the Emergency Medicine Network and studies vitamin D.

Carlos A. Zarate

Carlos A. Zarate, Jr. is an Argentine-born American psychiatrist and NIH Distinguished Investigator whose trials showed ketamine relieves treatment-resistant depression within hours, contributing to the FDA-approved esketamine.

Carlos Alberto Zarate Jr.

Carlos Alberto Zarate Jr. is an American psychiatrist and NIH Distinguished Investigator at NIMH in Bethesda, Maryland, best known for showing that a single ketamine infusion rapidly reduces depressive and suicidal symptoms in treatment-resistant depression.

Oct 22, 2026

Carlos Arvelo

Carlos Arvelo (1784–1862) was a Venezuelan physician and independence-era officer who served as chief surgeon of Simón Bolívar's Liberating Army and later became Rector of the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

Carlos Blanco (psychiatrist)

Carlos Blanco is a Spanish-born American psychiatrist and epidemiologist who has directed the Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse since 2015.

Carlos Caldas

Carlos Caldas, born 1960, is a clinician scientist and Professor of Cancer Medicine at Cambridge, known for the METABRIC study classifying breast cancer into 10 molecular types.

Carlos Chagas

Carlos Chagas was a Brazilian physician and scientist who discovered Trypanosoma cruzi, its triatomine vector, and Chagas disease in Minas Gerais in 1908 and 1909.

Carlos Cordon‐Cardo

Carlos Cordon-Cardo is a physician-scientist in experimental pathology and molecular oncology, Professor and System Chair of Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 2011.

Carlos Cruchaga

Carlos Cruchaga is a Spanish human genomicist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, founding director of its NeuroGenomics and Informatics Center and a pioneer in Alzheimer's disease genetics.

Carlos Fernandez-Hernando

Carlos Fernández-Hernando is a cardiovascular researcher at Yale School of Medicine, where he directs the Vascular Biology & Therapeutics Program and studies microRNAs that control cholesterol metabolism.

Carlos Fernández‐del Castillo

Carlos Fernández-del Castillo is a Mexican-trained gastrointestinal surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard professor known for pancreatic surgery and research on pancreatic cancer and cystic tumors.

Carlos Finlay

Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915), Cuban physician of Havana who in 1881 proposed that Aedes aegypti transmits yellow fever; confirmed by Walter Reed's 1900 board, enabling mosquito control in Cuba and Panama.

Carlos Gamna

Carlo Gamna (c. 1886–1950) was an Italian physician and university professor in internal medicine known for the eponyms Gamna-Favre bodies, Gandy-Gamna bodies, and Gandy-Gamna disease.

Carlos José Belmonte López

Carlos José Belmonte López is a Spanish pharmacy researcher whose public record includes an ORCID profile listing him at PharmaSalud.net in Madrid from 2021 onward.

Carlos L. Arteaga

Carlos L. Arteaga is an American medical oncologist and breast cancer drug resistance researcher who directs the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern in Dallas since 2017.

Oct 22, 2026

Carlos Montezuma

Carlos Montezuma, born Wassaja, was a Yavapai physician and activist who campaigned to abolish the Bureau of Indian Affairs and cofounded the Society of American Indians.

Carlos Roberto Jaen

Carlos Roberto Jaén is a Panamanian-born American family physician and epidemiologist who chaired Family and Community Medicine at UT Health San Antonio from 2001 to 2025.

Carmen Garcia Pena

María del Carmen García Peña is a Mexican physician and geriatrics researcher who directs the National Institute of Geriatrics in Mexico City and studies aging and frailty.

Carmen J. Allegra

Carmen J. Allegra, also published as Carmen Allegra, is an American medical oncologist known for colorectal cancer research and nearly 20 years at the National Cancer Institute.

Carmine Zoccali

Carmine Zoccali is an Italian nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist in Reggio Calabria known for the 2001 Lancet study showing plasma ADMA predicts death in dialysis patients.

Carol A. Kauffman

Carol A. Kauffman, also known as Carol Kauffman, is an American infectious-disease physician-scientist who led the VA Ann Arbor Infectious Diseases Section from 1977 to 2021.