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Charles Dettie Aaron
Charles Dettie Aaron (1866–1951) was an American gastroenterologist in Detroit, known for Aaron's sign in chronic appendicitis, a leading textbook on digestive diseases, and helping found what became the American Gastroenterological Association.
Charles Dodds
Sir Edward Charles Dodds, known as Charles Dodds (1899–1973), was a British biochemist who co-discovered the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol in 1938 and directed the Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry at the Middlesex Hospital for nearly four decades.
Charles E. Alpers
Charles E. Alpers is an American physician-scientist and nephropathologist at the University of Washington, known for research on kidney injury, diabetic kidney disease, and glomerular disease classification.
Charles E. Geyer
Charles E. Geyer is an American oncologist, Chief Scientific Officer of the NSABP Foundation and chief of medical oncology at UPMC Hillman, known for the KATHERINE and OlympiA breast cancer trials.
Charles E. Lewis
Charles E. Lewis (1928–2010) was an American physician and health-services researcher who showed wide regional variation in surgery rates in 1969 and founded UCLA's Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research.
Charles Edward Beevor
Charles Edward Beevor (1854–1908) was an English neurologist and anatomist at the National Hospital, Queen Square, who mapped cerebral arterial territories and gave his name to Beevor's sign.
Charles F. Code
Charles F. Code (1910–1997) was a Canadian-born American physiologist and gastroenterologist who spent most of his career at the Mayo Clinic and was known internationally as the "father of gastrointestinal motility."
Charles F. Gilks
Charles F. Gilks is a British-trained infectious disease physician and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, known for leading the DART trial and WHO's public-health approach to HIV treatment.
Charles F. Reynolds
Charles F. Reynolds III is an American geriatric psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh whose research focuses on mood, grief, and sleep disorders in older adults.
Charles F. Zorumski
Charles F. Zorumski is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2012.
Charles Fletcher (physician)
Charles Montague Fletcher (1911–1995) was a British physician and epidemiologist who gave the first injection of penicillin to a patient and drafted the Royal College of Physicians' 1962 report on smoking.
Charles Franklin Hoover
Charles Franklin Hoover was an American physician and professor at Western Reserve in Cleveland who described Hoover's sign, a bedside test for malingering and for diaphragm weakness.
Charles G. Cochrane
Charles G. Cochrane, born 1930, is an American immunologist at Scripps Research known for work on immune complex disease and the lung surfactant protein behind the drug Surfaxin.
Charles G. Moertel
Charles G. Moertel (1927–1994) was an American oncologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, whose large randomized trials changed chemotherapy for gastrointestinal cancers and disproved laetrile and vitamin C as cancer remedies.
Charles G. Prober
Charles G. Prober is a pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for research on herpes simplex virus infections in pregnant women and newborns.
Charles Gandy
Charles Gandy (21 April 1872 – 5 July 1943) was a French physician known for the eponym Gandy–Gamna nodules, iron- and calcium-encrusted splenic lesions he described in a patient with biliary cirrhosis around 1905.
Charles Gilbert Chaddock
Charles Gilbert Chaddock (1861–1936) was an American neurologist in St Louis, Missouri, who described the Chaddock reflex in 1911 and introduced Babinski's sign to the United States in 1899.
Charles H. Halsted
Charles H. Halsted is an American physician-scientist, Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for showing in 1971 that folate malabsorption in alcoholics stems from poor nutrition.
Charles H. Hennekens
Charles H. Hennekens is an American physician and epidemiologist whose randomized trials first demonstrated that aspirin prevents a first heart attack, making him among the most cited medical researchers.
Charles H. Rodeck
Charles H. Rodeck, born 1944, is a British obstetrician and Emeritus Professor at University College London, a pioneer of fetal medicine and first to describe direct fetal blood transfusion.
Charles H. Slocumb
Charles H. Slocumb (1905–1996) was an American rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic who gave the first cortisone injection to a rheumatoid arthritis patient in 1948 and co-authored the 1949 report on its dramatic effects.
Charles Herbert Best
Charles Herbert Best (1899–1978) was a Canadian physiologist who co-discovered insulin with Frederick Banting in 1921, chaired physiology at the University of Toronto, and helped purify heparin.
Charles Hollenberg
Charles H. Hollenberg (1930–2003) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher known for studying fat cells, who led the University of Toronto's medicine department and founded the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre.
Charles Huggins
Charles Huggins was a Canadian-born American surgeon and urologist at the University of Chicago who showed that hormones govern prostate and breast cancer growth, winning the 1966 Nobel Prize.
Charles I. Scott
Charles I. Scott, Jr. is an American pediatrician and medical geneticist who trained at Johns Hopkins, worked in Wilmington, Delaware, and helped create the skeletal dysplasia nomenclature.
Charles J. Epstein
Charles J. Epstein (1933–2011) was an American human geneticist who led UCSF's medical genetics division for 40 years and created the first mouse model of Down syndrome.
Charles J. Goodner
Charles J. Goodner (1929–2018) was an American endocrinologist at the University of Washington, known for his 1974 Science paper on somatostatin's inhibition of insulin and glucagon.
Charles J. Lowenstein
Charles J. Lowenstein is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University who directs the Division of Cardiology and studies nitric oxide signaling, vascular inflammation, and thrombosis.
Charles J. Sherr
Charles J. Sherr is an American physician-scientist and emeritus researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital known for discoveries in oncogenes, tumor suppressors, and cell cycle control.
Charles K. Friedberg
Charles K. Friedberg (1905–1972) was an American cardiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and author of the standard textbook Diseases of the Heart.