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Enriqueta Felip

Enriqueta Felip is a Spanish medical oncologist specializing in thoracic cancer who heads the Thoracic Tumors Unit at Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona and led the IMpower010 lung cancer immunotherapy trial.

Eoin O'Brien

Eoin OʼBrien, born in Dublin in 1939, is an Irish cardiologist and hypertension researcher who established 24-hour ambulatory blood-pressure monitoring, holding professorships at RCSI and University College Dublin.

Epidemiologists

Epidemiologists, or disease detectives, are public health professionals who investigate disease patterns, causes, and outbreaks in populations; typically MPH-trained, defined by the CDC/CSTE Applied Epidemiology Competencies, updated in 2023.

Eric A. Appel

Eric A. Appel is an American materials scientist and bioengineer, Associate Professor at Stanford University, known for injectable hydrogels enabling months-long drug release, single-dose subunit vaccines, and wildfire-protective gels.

Eric A. Engels

Eric A. Engels is an American cancer epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute who leads studies of cancer risk in people with HIV and transplant recipients.

Eric A. Espiner

Eric A. Espiner is a New Zealand endocrinologist and Emeritus Professor at the Christchurch Heart Institute, University of Otago, known for research on aldosterone and the natriuretic peptides.

Eric A. Rose

Eric A. Rose is an American cardiothoracic surgeon who performed the world's first successful pediatric heart transplant in 1984 and led the REMATCH trial, which established LVADs as long-term therapy for end-stage heart failure.

Eric B. Larson

Eric B. Larson is an American general internist and researcher on healthy aging and dementia who led Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute from 2002 to 2019.

Eric B. Rimm

Eric B. Rimm, also known as Eric Rimm, is an American epidemiologist and Harvard professor who studies how diet, alcohol, and lifestyle affect heart disease risk.

Eric C. Holland

Eric C. Holland is a neurosurgeon and cancer geneticist who directs the Human Biology Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and is known for mouse models of glioma.

Eric Chang (radiologist)

Eric Y. Chang is an American musculoskeletal radiologist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and adjunct professor at UCSD who received the 2017 PECASE award.

Eric Charles Holland

Eric Charles Holland is an American neurosurgeon-scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center who studies brain tumors and has been a National Academy of Medicine member since 2009.

Eric D. Bateman

Eric D. Bateman (1947–2025) was a South African respiratory physician at the University of Cape Town who led the GOAL asthma study and chaired the Global Initiative for Asthma.

Eric G. Neilson

Eric G. Neilson is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist, dean of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine since 2011, known for research on fibroblasts in organ scarring and kidney inflammation.

Eric G. Pamer

Eric G. Pamer is an American immunologist and microbiome researcher, Director of the Duchossois Family Institute at the University of Chicago since 2019, known for work on Listeria immunity and colonization resistance.

Eric Huang

Eric Huang (Eric Yi-Chun Huang, 黃翊群) is an American biotechnology researcher who led Moderna's New Venture Labs and proposed the vaccine pivot that produced Spikevax.

Eric J. Cassell

Eric J. Cassell, born Eric Jonathan Goldstein (1928–2021), was an American physician and bioethicist who argued that relieving suffering is a goal of medicine equal to curing disease.

Eric J. Rubin

Eric J. Rubin, also known as Eric Rubin, is an American physician-scientist who studies tuberculosis at Harvard and became editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine in September 2019.

Eric J. Small

Eric J. Small (Eric Jay Small) is an American medical oncologist at UCSF who developed sipuleucel-T, abiraterone, and apalutamide and became ASCO president in 2025.

Eric J. Sorscher

Eric J. Sorscher is an American physician-scientist and professor of pediatrics at Emory University, known for pioneering research on the cystic fibrosis gene product CFTR.

Eric J. Velazquez

Eric J. Velazquez, also published as Eric Velazquez, is a cardiologist and Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale, known for the STICH and PIONEER-HF trials.

Eric Jaffe

Eric Jaffe (1942–2024) was an American physician-scientist at Cornell University Medical College who first cultured human endothelial cells in 1973, helping initiate modern vascular biology.

Eric K. Rowinsky

Eric K. Rowinsky is an American clinical cancer researcher whose phase I and pharmacologic trials shaped the development of paclitaxel, irinotecan, erlotinib, and cetuximab, and who led drug development at ImClone Systems and Stemline Therapeutics.

Eric Lawitz

Eric Lawitz (Eric J. Lawitz) is an American hepatologist and clinical trialist known for leading phase 3 sofosbuvir trials that replaced interferon-based hepatitis C therapy with all-oral antiviral regimens.

Eric M. Reiman

Eric M. Reiman is an American psychiatrist and brain imaging researcher who leads Banner Alzheimer's Institute in Phoenix and pioneered PET detection of Alzheimer's disease decades before symptoms.

Eric N. Prystowsky

Eric N. Prystowsky is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at Ascension St. Vincent in Indianapolis and was president of the Heart Rhythm Society in 2001–2002.

Eric P. Winer

Eric P. Winer is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer who became Director of Yale Cancer Center and Physician-in-Chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital in 2022.

Éric Pujade-Lauraine

Éric Pujade-Lauraine is a French gynecologic oncologist and professor of medical oncology who heads the Women Cancer department at Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu in Paris and founded the GINECO trial group.

Éric Ravussin

Éric Ravussin is an obesity and energy metabolism physiologist who has led Pennington Biomedical Research Center's Human Translational Physiology Laboratory since 2001 and helped lead the CALERIE caloric-restriction trial.

Éric Raymond

Éric Raymond is a French medical oncologist who heads oncology at Hôpital Paris Saint-Joseph and led the 2011 phase 3 sunitinib trial in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.