Medical and health researchers

Ethel Shanas

Ethel Shanas was an American sociologist and gerontologist who led the National Surveys of the Aged, co-wrote Old People in Three Industrial Societies, and presided over the Gerontological Society in 1974.

Étienne Destot

Étienne Destot (1864–1918) was a French radiologist, anatomist, and surgeon who created the first hospital radiology service in France at Lyon and described Destot's space in the wrist.

Étienne Lombard

Étienne Lombard (1869–1920) was a French otolaryngologist of the Paris hospital system who discovered the Lombard effect, the involuntary elevation of the speaking voice in noise.

Étienne Pays

Étienne Pays, born in Belgium in 1948, is a Belgian molecular biologist at the Université libre de Bruxelles known for work on African trypanosomes and APOL1.

Ettore Marchiafava

Ettore Marchiafava (1847–1935) was an Italian physician and malariologist in Rome who, with Angelo Celli, named the malaria parasite Plasmodium and helped found the Italian school of malariology.

Euan A. Ashley

Euan A. Ashley is a Scottish-born cardiologist and medical genomicist at Stanford University who led the first clinical interpretation of a complete human genome and set a Guinness World Record for genome sequencing speed.

Eugen Bleuler

Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist, professor at the University of Zürich, and Burghölzli director from 1898 to 1927 who introduced the term schizophrenia in 1908, replacing dementia praecox.

Eugene B. Chang

Eugene B. Chang, also known as Eugene Chang, is a gastroenterologist and microbiome researcher at the University of Chicago, known for linking diet, gut microbes, and inflammatory bowel disease.

Eugene Braunwald

Eugene Braunwald (1929–2026) was a Vienna-born American cardiologist at Harvard who founded the TIMI Study Group and edited Braunwald's Heart Disease, called the father of modern cardiology.

Eugene C. Butcher

Eugene C. Butcher is an immunologist and physician, Klaus Bensch Professor of Pathology at Stanford, who pioneered the multistep paradigm of white blood cell recruitment and won the 2004 Crafoord Prize.

Eugene D. Kwon

Eugene D. Kwon is a urologic oncologist and tumor immunologist at Mayo Clinic whose 1997 prostate cancer immunotherapy study was cited by the Nobel Committee.

Eugene D. Robin

Eugene D. Robin (1919–2000) was an American pulmonary physician-scientist and Stanford professor whose work on pulmonary embolism and edema was matched by advocacy of patients' rights.

Eugene D. Shapiro

Eugene D. Shapiro is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist at Yale School of Medicine since 1983, known for vaccine effectiveness studies and Lyme disease research.

Eugene Floyd DuBois

Eugene Floyd DuBois (1882–1959) was an American physician and clinical physiologist at Cornell who standardized basal metabolic rate measurement and devised the 1916 DuBois body-surface-area formula still used in medicine.

Eugène Gley

Eugène Gley (1857–1930) was a French physiologist, professor at the Collège de France, who first assigned the parathyroid glands a vital role and became a cofounder of organotherapy and endocrinology.

Eugene H. Blackstone

Eugene H. Blackstone is an American physician-investigator at the Cleveland Clinic who works in cardiothoracic surgery outcomes research and received the American Association for Thoracic Surgery's 2013 Scientific Achievement Award.

Eugene J. Van Scott

Eugene J. Van Scott (1922–2025) was an American dermatologist who founded the National Cancer Institute's dermatology branch and developed the first effective drug treatment for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

Eugene Lindsay Opie

Eugene Lindsay Opie (1873–1971) was an American pathologist who first linked the pancreatic islets of Langerhans to diabetes and spent more than 70 years in research.

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Eugene P. Cronkite

Eugene P. Cronkite (1914–2001) was an American hematologist and radiation biologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who pioneered blood cell kinetics, studied radiation injury, and led the American Society of Hematology in 1971.

Eugene P. DiMagno

Eugene P. DiMagno (1937–2025) was an American gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, whose research defined pancreatic enzyme replacement dosing and introduced endoscopic ultrasound to medicine.

Eugene P. Rhee

Eugene P. Rhee is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist who serves as Chief of the Nephrology Division at Massachusetts General Hospital and is a Harvard professor.

Eugene R. Passamani

Eugene R. Passamani, also known as Eugene Passamani, was an American cardiologist and clinical trialist who spent about 20 years at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland.

Eugenio Centanni

Eugenio Centanni (1863–1942) was an Italian general pathologist and immunologist who, with Ezio Savonuzzi, identified the fowl plague virus at Ferrara in 1901, the fourth virus ever discovered.

Eugenio Mercuri

Eugenio Mercuri, born in 1963, is an Italian pediatric neurologist who directs child neuropsychiatry at the Gemelli hospital in Rome and led trials in spinal muscular atrophy.

Eugenio Picano

Eugenio Picano, born in Cassino in 1958, is an Italian cardiologist at the CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology in Pisa, known for stress echocardiography and lung ultrasound.

Eui‐Cheol Shin

Eui-Cheol Shin (신의철) is a South Korean physician-scientist and immunologist, a professor at KAIST in Daejeon known for work on bystander activation of CD8+ T cells.

Eula Bingham

Eula Bingham (1929–2020) was an American toxicologist at the University of Cincinnati who led OSHA from 1977 to 1981, setting stringent standards protecting workers from hazardous materials.

Eunice L. Kwak

Eunice L. Kwak is an American medical oncologist who led the 2010 phase 1 trial of crizotinib for ALK-positive lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Eva Lonn

Eva Lonn is a Canadian cardiologist and clinical trialist, Professor of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who led the HOPE-3 cholesterol-lowering trial published in 2016.