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Debarati Guha-Sapir

Debarati Guha-Sapir, born 1953, is a Belgian epidemiologist who directed CRED at UCLouvain from 1992 to 2021 and built EM-DAT, the standard international disaster database.

Debbie A. Lawlor

Debbie A. Lawlor, also published as Deborah Lawlor, is a British epidemiologist and BHF Professor at the University of Bristol, known for Mendelian randomization and perinatal health research.

Deborah Doniach

Deborah Doniach, née Abileah (1912–2004), was a British clinical immunologist at the Middlesex Hospital in London who showed in 1956 that Hashimoto's thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease.

Deborah G. Grady

Deborah G. Grady is an American physician and epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at UC San Francisco, who led the HERS trial showing hormone therapy does not reduce heart disease.

Deborah J. Clegg

Deborah J. Clegg, also known as D.J. Clegg, is an American nutrition and metabolism researcher who studies sex differences in obesity and leads research at Texas Tech El Paso.

Deborah J. Wexler

Deborah J. Wexler, also known as Deborah Wexler, is an endocrinologist who is Chief of the Diabetes Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

Deborah M. Muoio

Deborah M. Muoio is an American physiologist at Duke University who studies how muscle and heart mitochondria select and burn fuels, and how that fails in obesity and diabetes.

Deborah S. Hasin

Deborah S. Hasin is an American psychiatric epidemiologist, a Columbia University professor who helped write the DSM-5 substance use disorder criteria and led national alcohol use disorder surveys.

Deborah Schrag

Deborah Schrag, also known as Deb Schrag, is an American gastrointestinal medical oncologist who became Chair of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2021.

Deborah Victoria Deas

Deborah Victoria Deas is an American academic psychiatrist who leads the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.

Debra A. Schwinn

Debra A. Schwinn is an American anesthesiology researcher elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2002 and president of Palm Beach Atlantic University since 2020.

Declan McGuone

Declan McGuone is an Irish-trained neuropathologist and Associate Professor of Pathology at Yale School of Medicine, known for NEJM case records and a rabies incubation study.

Delan Devakumar

Delan Devakumar is a British public health physician and Professor of Global Child Health at UCL, known for work on racism, migration, and child health.

Delbert A. Fisher

Delbert A. Fisher (1928–2026) was an American pediatric endocrinologist, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1988, whose work launched newborn screening for congenital hypothyroidism.

Denis A. Evans

Denis A. Evans is an American physician-scientist in geriatric epidemiology who spent 27 years at Rush University Medical Center, founding the Chicago Health and Aging Project.

Denis E. O’Donnell

Denis E. O'Donnell is a Canadian respirologist and Professor of Medicine (Emeritus) at Queen's University who founded the Respiratory Investigation Unit and studies breathlessness and exercise limitation in COPD.

Denis J. Pereira Gray

Sir Denis Pereira Gray is a British general practitioner and Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter, known for founding Europe's first university department of general practice.

Denis Le Bihan

Denis Le Bihan is a French physician and physicist who invented diffusion MRI, used to diagnose acute stroke, and co-invented diffusion tensor imaging of brain connections.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911–1993) was a British surgeon who worked in Uganda, mapped the childhood cancer Burkitt lymphoma across Africa, and later campaigned for dietary fiber.

Denisa D. Wagner

Denisa D. Wagner is the Edwin Cohn Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, known for her work on von Willebrand factor and thrombosis.

Denise J. Jamieson

Denise J. Jamieson is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and public health researcher who became dean of the University of Iowa's Carver College of Medicine in 2023 after a CDC career.

Dennis A. Carson

Dennis A. Carson is an American physician-scientist who developed the leukemia drug cladribine, discovered chromosome 9p21 deletions in cancers, and directed UC San Diego's Moores Cancer Center.

Dennis D. Spencer

Dennis D. Spencer is an American neurosurgeon and epilepsy researcher at Yale School of Medicine, known for developing the most commonly used temporal lobe epilepsy surgery technique.

Dennis E. Hallahan

Dennis E. Hallahan is an American radiation oncologist and cancer researcher, head of Radiation Oncology at Washington University in St. Louis since 2009, known for radiation-inducible gene therapy.

Dennis E. Niewoehner

Dennis E. Niewoehner was an American pulmonary physician and COPD researcher who spent 42 years as Chief of the Pulmonary Section at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center.

Dennis G. Maki

Dennis George Maki, known as Dennis G. Maki, is an American infectious disease physician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose work underpins worldwide prevention of central-line bloodstream infections.

Dennis H. Wright

Dennis H. Wright, full name Dennis Howard Wright, was a British pathologist and world expert in lymphoma diagnosis, Foundation Professor of Pathology at Southampton from 1972 to 1996.

Dennis J. Selkoe

Dennis J. Selkoe, also known as Dennis Selkoe, is an American neurologist and Harvard Medical School professor known for research on the molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease.

Dennis J. Slamon

Dennis J. Slamon, also known as Dennis Slamon, is an American oncologist at UCLA whose HER2 research led to Herceptin and CDK4/6 inhibitor breast cancer drugs.

Dennis L. Andress

Dennis L. Andress is an American nephrology researcher at the University of Washington known for renal osteodystrophy and vitamin D therapy in chronic kidney disease.