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Diana M. Gibb

Diana M. Gibb is a British pediatrician and Professor of Epidemiology at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, known for landmark pediatric HIV trials in Africa.

Diane E. Meier

Diane E. Meier is an American palliative care physician and geriatrician who founded the Center to Advance Palliative Care and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.

Diane Havlir

Diane V. Havlir is an American physician-scientist at UCSF, chief of HIV and infectious diseases at San Francisco General, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

Diane M. Robins

Diane M. Robins is an American human geneticist, professor emerita at the University of Michigan, known for her work on androgen receptor regulation in prostate cancer.

Diane M. Simeone

Diane M. Simeone is an American pancreatic surgeon and cancer researcher who directs Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health and belongs to the National Academy of Medicine.

Diane R. Gold

Diane R. Gold is a pulmonologist and epidemiologist, professor at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for about forty years of research on air pollution, smoking, and childhood asthma.

Diane W. Wara

Diane W. Wara is a pediatric immunologist and professor emeritus at UCSF, a pioneer of pediatric HIV medicine elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1998.

Diann Prosser

Diann Prosser is an American research wildlife ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Laurel, Maryland, known for modeling how waterfowl movements spread avian influenza.

Dianna M. Milewicz

Dianna M. Milewicz is an American medical geneticist at UTHealth Houston who studies the genetics of thoracic aortic aneurysms and directs the John Ritter Research Program.

Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum

Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum is a public health scientist who heads the World Health Organization's Climate Change and Health Unit in Geneva and helps lead the annual Lancet Countdown reports.

Dick de Zeeuw

Dick de Zeeuw (born 1951 in The Hague) is a Dutch clinical pharmacologist and professor at the University Medical Center Groningen who led major diabetic kidney disease trials.

Dick Heinegård

Dick Heinegård (1942–2013) was a Swedish biochemist and physician at Lund University whose laboratory identified numerous cartilage matrix proteins and developed biomarkers for monitoring joint disease.

Dick Menzies

Dick Menzies is a Canadian respirologist and tuberculosis researcher at McGill University who led 2018 trials showing four months of rifampin treats latent TB as effectively as nine months of isoniazid.

Dickinson W. Richards

Dickinson W. Richards (1895–1973) was an American physiologist at Columbia University and Bellevue Hospital who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on heart catheterization.

Didier Cros

Didier Cros is a French-trained American neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for electrophysiological diagnosis of peripheral nerve disease and NEJM MGH case records.

Didier Dreyfuss

Didier Dreyfuss is a French professor emeritus of intensive-care medicine at Université Paris Cité and former head of intensive care at Hôpital Louis Mourier, Colombes.

Didier Lebrec

Didier Lebrec (born 1945) is a French hepatologist and INSERM researcher at Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy, known for his 1981 trial showing propranolol sharply reduced recurrent bleeding in cirrhosis.

Didier Ménard

Didier Ménard, born 1966, is a French pharmacist-biologist and malaria researcher who established K13 mutations as the main determinants of artemisinin resistance and led the KARMA consortium.

Didier Pittet

Didier Pittet is a Swiss infectious-diseases physician and hospital epidemiologist who developed and popularized alcohol-based handrub and led WHO's Clean Care is Safer Care program.

Didier Samuel

Didier Samuel is a French hepatologist who led the liver transplant program at Hôpital Paul-Brousse in Villejuif and became Chairman and CEO of Inserm in February 2023.

Diederick E. Grobbee

Diederick E. Grobbee, also published as D. E. Grobbee, is a Dutch clinical epidemiologist who founded Utrecht's Julius Center and led the DREAM aneurysm trial.

Diederik van de Beek

Diederik van de Beek (born 1974) is a Dutch neurologist and professor of neurological infectious diseases at Amsterdam UMC, best known for the 2002 dexamethasone trial in bacterial meningitis.

Diego Vergani

Diego Vergani is a British-based liver immunologist and hepatologist, Professor of Liver Immunopathology at King's College London since 2003, known for research on autoimmune and viral liver disease.

Dieter Häussinger

Dieter Häussinger, born 1951 in Nördlingen, is a German hepatologist who discovered the liver's intercellular glutamine cycle, shaped the modern concept of hepatic encephalopathy, and directed Düsseldorf University Hospital's gastroenterology clinic from 1994 to 2020.

Dietmar W. Hutmacher

Dietmar W. Hutmacher is a biomedical engineer and Distinguished Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, known for regenerative medicine and 3D-printed bone scaffolds, and co-founder of Osteopore.

Dietrich Keppler

Dietrich Keppler, born 1940, is a German physician-scientist and biochemist known for defining leukotrienes and discovering ATP-dependent MRP export pumps at Heidelberg's German Cancer Research Center.

Dima Qato

Dima Qato is an American pharmacoepidemiologist and Hygeia Centennial Chair at the University of Southern California, known for research on pharmacy deserts and how pharmacy closures affect medication adherence.

Dimitri Krainc

Dimitri Krainc is a Slovenian-born neurologist and neuroscientist who became chair of neurology at Northwestern University in 2013, known for research on Parkinson's and Huntington's disease.

Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis

Dimitrios Kontoyiannis is a Greek-American physician-scientist in infectious diseases at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, known for research on invasive fungal infections in leukemia and transplant patients.

Dipak Kotecha

Dipak Kotecha is a British cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging at the University of Birmingham, known for research on heart failure and atrial fibrillation and for chairing the 2024 ESC atrial fibrillation guidelines.