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Donald C. Harrison

Donald C. Harrison is an American cardiologist who was the physician for the first adult heart transplant in the United States and president of the American Heart Association.

Donald C. Nabseth

Donald C. Nabseth was an academic surgeon based in Boston and affiliated with Tufts University, known for landmark papers on renal artery surgery, transplantation, and abscess drainage.

Donald Chi

Donald Chi is an American pediatric dentist and oral health services researcher at the University of Washington School of Dentistry, who received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.

Donald D. Heistad

Donald D. Heistad is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular physiology and vascular biology at the University of Iowa, where he holds the Pomerantz Family Chair in Cardiology.

Donald D. Matson

Donald D. Matson (1913–1969) was an American pediatric neurosurgeon who led neurosurgery at Boston Children's Hospital, wrote the first pediatric neurosurgery textbook, and devised the lumbar-ureteral shunt.

Donald D. Van Slyke

Donald D. Van Slyke, also known as D. D. Van Slyke, was a Dutch American biochemist who helped develop clinical chemistry and invented the manometric blood-gas apparatus bearing his name.

Donald E. Cutlip

Donald E. Cutlip is an American interventional cardiologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Chief Medical Officer of the Baim Institute for Clinical Research in Boston.

Donald E. Low

Donald E. Low is a thoracic surgeon who leads thoracic surgery and the Esophageal Center of Excellence at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, and standardized esophagectomy complication reporting worldwide.

Donald E. Staunton

Donald E. Staunton is an American immunologist known for identifying the cell adhesion molecule ICAM-1 as the receptor for the major group of rhinoviruses, which cause most common colds.

Donald E. Wesson

Donald E. Wesson is an American nephrologist and Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for research on metabolic acidosis in chronic kidney disease.

Donald F. Steiner

Donald F. Steiner (1930–2014) was an American biochemist and diabetes researcher at the University of Chicago who discovered proinsulin, the precursor from which insulin is made.

Donald H. Gilden

Donald H. Gilden (1937–2016) was an American neurovirologist who chaired neurology at the University of Colorado for 24 years and linked varicella-zoster virus to shingles and giant cell arteritis.

Donald I. Abrams

Donald I. Abrams is an American integrative oncologist and HIV/AIDS researcher, Professor Emeritus at UCSF, known for AIDS research at San Francisco General and pioneering NIH-funded medical cannabis studies.

Donald J. D’Amico

Donald J. D'Amico is an American ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon, chair of ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College since 2006 and Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Donald J. Sherrard

Donald J. Sherrard, also known as D J Sherrard, was an American nephrologist at the University of Washington and Seattle VA hospital who defined the diagnosis of bone disease in dialysis patients.

Donald L. Morton

Donald L. Morton (1934–2014) was an American surgical oncologist who developed sentinel node biopsy, transforming melanoma and breast cancer surgery, and founded the John Wayne Cancer Institute.

Donald L. Price

Donald L. Price was an American neuropathologist and neuroscientist who spent four decades at Johns Hopkins, founded its Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and helped develop donepezil.

Donald M. Bers

Donald M. Bers is an American cardiac physiologist known for work on calcium signaling and CaMKII in arrhythmia, and Distinguished Professor and Chair of Pharmacology at UC Davis since 2008.

Donald M. Berwick

Donald M. Berwick, known as Donald Berwick, is an American pediatrician who co-founded the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in 1991 and led Medicare and Medicaid from 2010 to 2011.

Donald M. Yealy

Donald M. Yealy is an American emergency physician-scientist who chairs emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, leads UPMC's health services, and edits Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Donald McNellis

Donald McNellis is an American physician at the NIH who served as project officer for the RADIUS trial, the 1993 study of routine prenatal ultrasound.

Donald Metcalf

Donald Metcalf (1929–2014) was an Australian medical researcher at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, called the father of modern hematology for discovering colony-stimulating factors.

Donald Munro (neurosurgeon)

Donald Munro (1889–1973) was an American neurosurgeon at Boston City Hospital known as the "father of paraplegia" for founding the first US spinal cord injury unit in 1936.

Donald O. Castell

Donald O. Castell (1935–2021) was an American gastroenterologist, a leading figure in esophageal motility and reflux disease who pioneered impedance-pH testing and led the American Gastroenterological Association.

Donald P. McDonnell

Donald P. McDonnell is a molecular endocrinologist and cancer biologist at Duke University whose estrogen receptor pharmacology model produced oral breast cancer drugs, including elacestrant, approved in 2023.

Donald P. McManus

Donald P. McManus, also known as D. P. McManus, was an Australian-based parasitologist who led the Molecular Parasitology Laboratory at QIMR Berghofer in Brisbane until his death in 2022.

Donald P. Tashkin

Donald P. Tashkin is an American pulmonologist and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at UCLA, known for the UPLIFT COPD trial, the Scleroderma Lung Study, and decades of research on marijuana smoking and the lungs.

Donald Patrick McDonnell

Donald Patrick McDonnell is a pharmacologist at Duke University School of Medicine whose nuclear receptor research produced breast cancer drugs, including the FDA-approved ORSERDU (elacestrant).

Donald Pinkel

Donald Pinkel (1926–2022) was an American pediatrician and cancer researcher who, as first director of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, created Total Therapy for childhood leukemia.

Donald S. Baim

Donald S. Baim was an American interventional cardiologist who founded Beth Israel Hospital's cardiology program, edited Grossman's cardiac catheterization textbook, and became Boston Scientific's chief medical officer.