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Douglas R. Lowy

Douglas R. Lowy is a virologist and cancer researcher who leads the Laboratory of Cellular Oncology at the National Cancer Institute and developed the technology behind HPV vaccines.

Douglas S. Lee

Douglas S. Lee is a Canadian cardiologist and clinician-scientist at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre in Toronto, a University of Toronto professor known for heart failure risk prediction tools including EHMRG.

Douglas S. Robinson

Douglas S. Robinson is a physician-scientist in asthma immunology and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London, known for a landmark 1992 New England Journal of Medicine paper on TH2 cells in asthma.

Douglas W. Dockery

Douglas W. Dockery is an American environmental epidemiologist at Harvard, best known as Principal Investigator of the Harvard Six Cities Study on air pollution and mortality.

Douglas W. Wilmore

Douglas W. Wilmore is an American surgeon-scientist who directed the Nutrition Support Service at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for work on surgical metabolism and clinical nutrition.

Drew M. Pardoll

Drew M. Pardoll is a Johns Hopkins oncologist who discovered the PD-1 ligand PD-L2, helped lead early clinical trials of PD-1 immunotherapy, and directs the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

Drucilla J. Roberts

Drucilla J. Roberts is an American perinatal pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for her research on placental pathology and stillbirth.

Duane M. Ilstrup

Duane M. Ilstrup (1946–2021) was an American medical statistician who spent his career in biostatistics at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and wrote a 2004 handbook advising young biostatisticians.

Dudley J. Pennell

Dudley J. Pennell, also known as Dudley Pennell, is a British cardiologist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London who pioneered cardiovascular magnetic resonance, including the T2 technique for measuring cardiac iron.

Duncan J. Stewart

Duncan J. Stewart is a Canadian cardiologist and regenerative medicine researcher who led the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute as CEO and Scientific Director from 2007 to 2024.

Duncan P. Thomas

Duncan P. Thomas is a hematologist and thrombosis researcher known for work on pulmonary embolism, platelet aggregation, and heparin, who taught at Tufts and later worked in England.

Duncan vB. Neuhauser

Duncan Neuhauser was an American health services researcher and professor emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, known for clinical decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and quality measurement.

Dung T. Le

Dung T. Le (Dung Thi Le) is a gastrointestinal oncologist and professor at Johns Hopkins whose trials produced the first US cancer approval based on a tumor's genetic feature, in 2017.

Dwight E. Harken

Dwight E. Harken (1910–1993) was an American cardiac surgeon at Harvard Medical School who pioneered surgery inside the beating heart and performed the first aortic valve replacement.

Dwight J. Rouse

Dwight J. Rouse is an American maternal-fetal medicine specialist, professor at Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital, known for the 2008 NEJM magnesium sulfate trial.

Dyann F. Wirth

Dyann F. Wirth is an American malariologist and molecular parasitologist, the Richard Pearson Strong Professor at Harvard, known for her work on malaria parasite genetics and drug resistance.

Dyanne D. Affonso

Dyanne D. Affonso is an American nurse-scientist and clinical psychologist whose research made postpartum depression an NIH women's health priority; she was named a Living Legend in 2025.

E. Anthony Jones

E. Anthony Jones is a physician-scientist in hepatology known for the GABA hypothesis of hepatic encephalopathy and early trials of alpha interferon in chronic viral hepatitis.

E. Clarence Rice

E. Clarence Rice was a Washington, D.C. pathologist and pediatric researcher who was associate professor of pediatric pathology at Georgetown University from 1946 to 1959.

E. Dale Abel

E. Dale Abel (Evan Dale Abel) is a Jamaican-born endocrinologist known for work on insulin signaling and mitochondrial metabolism in the diabetic heart, and chair of medicine at UCLA since 2022.

E. David Crawford

E. David Crawford is an American urologic oncologist known for the 1989 leuprolide and flutamide prostate cancer trial and for founding the Prostate Conditions Education Council.

E. Donnall Thomas

E. Donnall Thomas (1920–2012) was an American hematologist who developed bone marrow transplantation into a curative leukemia therapy at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, winning the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

E. Magnus Ohman

E. Magnus Ohman, also known as Erik Magnus Ohman, is a Swedish-born cardiologist at Duke whose 1996 study established troponin T as a predictor of death in acute ischemia.

E. Premkumar Reddy

E. Premkumar Reddy is a molecular oncologist who cloned viral oncogenes, showed that point mutations activate the ras oncogene, and developed the anticancer drug rigosertib at Mount Sinai.

E. Robert Greenberg

E. Robert Greenberg is an American physician-scientist in cancer prevention epidemiology, an emeritus Dartmouth professor who led randomized trials testing whether beta carotene, antioxidant vitamins, and calcium prevent cancer.

E. Russell Alexander

E. Russell Alexander is an American physician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington whose 1975 and 1978 New England Journal of Medicine studies helped define chlamydial disease.

E. Tessa Hedley‐Whyte

E. Tessa Hedley-Whyte, also known as E. T. Hedley-Whyte, is a British-born American neuropathologist and Harvard Medical School professor of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

E. Wesley Ely

E. Wesley Ely (Eugene Wesley Ely) is an American critical-care physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who developed the CAM-ICU delirium screening tool and helped define long Covid.

E. Zachary Nussbaum

E. Zachary Nussbaum, also known as Eliezer Zachary Nussbaum, is an American physician in Boston known for co-authoring 2023 New England Journal of Medicine case records.

E.A. Caspary

E.A. Caspary is an immunologist who worked with the Medical Research Council in Newcastle upon Tyne and proposed the macrophage electrophoretic mobility test as a diagnostic test for cancer.