Medical and health researchers

Elías Mossialos

Elias Mossialos is a health policy scholar and health economist who holds the Cheng Yu Tung Chair in Global Health at LSE and directs LSE Health.

Elias Schwartz was an American pediatric hematologist who led hematology and served as Physician-in-Chief at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and defined beta thalassemia's silent carrier state in 1969.

Elias Zerhouni

Elias Zerhouni is an Algerian-born radiologist and biomedical engineer who served as the 15th Director of the US National Institutes of Health from 2002 to 2008, appointed by President George W. Bush.

Élie Azoulay

Élie Azoulay (born 1966) is a French intensive-care physician and professor of medicine at Université Paris Cité, directing the medical ICU at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris.

Eliezer Masliah

Eliezer Masliah is a physician-scientist and neuropathologist known for research on synaptic damage in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease; in 2024 the NIH found research misconduct against him.

Eliezer Van Allen

Eliezer Van Allen is an American medical oncologist and computational biologist who leads population sciences at Dana-Farber and studies genomics of cancer therapy response and resistance.

Elihu H. Estey

Elihu H. Estey was an American hematologist and oncologist who introduced a chemotherapy-free ATRA plus arsenic regimen for APL and shaped European LeukemiaNet AML guidelines.

Elio Ríboli

Elio Ríboli is a physician-epidemiologist at Imperial College London who designed and led EPIC, a European cancer and nutrition study of over half a million people.

Elisabeth G.E. de Vries

Elisabeth G.E. de Vries, known as Liesbeth de Vries, is a Dutch medical oncologist and professor at the University Medical Center Groningen who pioneered cancer drug imaging.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004), Swiss-born American psychiatrist, wrote On Death and Dying (1969), introducing the five stages DABDA; pioneer of counseling the dying and hospice, later heavily criticized model.

Elisabeth Tournier‐Lasserve

Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve is a French medical geneticist and neurologist at Université Paris Cité whose laboratory identified the Notch3 gene behind CADASIL, a hereditary stroke disorder; she shared the 2019 Brain Prize.

Elisabetta Dejana

Elisabetta Dejana, born 1951 in Bologna, is an Italian vascular biologist known for discovering VE-cadherin, the first tissue-specific cadherin, and for work on angiogenesis and cerebral cavernous malformations.

Elisabetta Patorno

Elisabetta Patorno is an Italian-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, a Harvard School of Public Health graduate who became Professor of Medicine at UCLA in 2026 and led the 2017 NEJM study on lithium use in pregnancy.

Elisabetta Ullu

Elisabetta Ullu was an Italian-born RNA biologist and molecular parasitologist at Yale School of Medicine known for her studies of Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness.

Eliseo J. Perez-Stable

Eliseo J. Perez-Stable, also known as Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, is a Cuban-born American physician-scientist who has directed the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at NIH since 2015.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Elder Weiner

Elizabeth (Betsy) Elder Weiner is an American nursing informaticist elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2013, known for pioneering simulation and distance learning in nursing education.

Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer

Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer is a Canadian medical oncologist at Queen's University who directed the NCIC Clinical Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program from 1982 to 2012.

Elizabeth A. McGlynn

Elizabeth A. McGlynn is an American health services researcher, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2005, best known for a 2003 study finding US adults receive about half of recommended care.

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Elizabeth A. Tivol

Elizabeth A. Tivol is an immunologist best known as first author of the 1995 Immunity paper reporting the CTLA-4 knockout mouse, cited in the 2018 Nobel Prize background.

Elizabeth Barrett‐Connor

Elizabeth Barrett-Connor (1935–2019) was an American epidemiologist and physician who founded and directed the Rancho Bernardo Study of Healthy Aging at UC San Diego for nearly five decades.

Elizabeth C. Engle

Elizabeth C. Engle is an American neurologist and neurogeneticist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School whose research defined the congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders, birth defects of cranial nerve development.

Elizabeth C. Miller

Elizabeth C. Miller (1920–1987) was an American biochemist who, with her husband James A. Miller, founded the field of chemical carcinogenesis at the University of Wisconsin.

Elizabeth F. Neufeld

Elizabeth F. Neufeld (born 1928) is an American biochemist who worked out the biochemical causes of lysosomal storage diseases and laid the groundwork for enzyme replacement therapy.

Elizabeth Fisher (British neurogeneticist)

Elizabeth M.C. Fisher is a British neurogeneticist, Professor of Neurogenetics at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in London, known for mouse models of ALS, Down syndrome, and dynein mutations causing motor neuron degeneration.

Elizabeth H. Bradley

Elizabeth H. Bradley, known as Betsy Bradley, is an American health services researcher and public health scholar who has served as Vassar College's 11th president since July 2017.

Elizabeth Hohmann

Elizabeth Louise Hohmann, known as Libby Hohmann, is an infectious-disease physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital who directs its fecal microbiota transplant laboratory and studies Salmonella and Listeria.

Oct 10, 2026

Elizabeth Howell

Elizabeth A. Howell is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and health services researcher known for studies of racial disparities in maternal mortality, and chairs Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth L. Corbett

Elizabeth L. Corbett is a clinical epidemiologist and Professor of Global Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for tuberculosis and HIV research in sub-Saharan Africa.

Elizabeth Mayeda

Elizabeth Rose Mayeda is an American epidemiologist and tenured associate professor at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health, known for quantifying racial disparities in dementia incidence.