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Grant W. Liddle

Grant W. Liddle (1921–1989) was an American endocrinologist at Vanderbilt University whose work defined the modern diagnosis of adrenal gland disorders; Liddle's syndrome, a hereditary hypertension, is named for him.

Grantley W. Taylor

Grantley W. Taylor, full name Grantley Walder Taylor, was an American surgeon and cancer researcher at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for work on lymph-node metastases and hindquarter amputation.

Greet Van den Berghe

Greet Van den Berghe (Greet H. A. Van den Berghe) is a Belgian intensive care physician and endocrinology researcher, professor at KU Leuven and head of intensive care at UZ Leuven since 2002.

Greg J. Fox

Greg J. Fox, also known as Greg Fox, is an Australian respiratory physician and epidemiologist at the University of Sydney whose tuberculosis trials in Vietnam shaped WHO guidelines.

Gregg S. Meyer

Gregg S. Meyer (Gregg Meyer) is an American physician-executive in healthcare quality and patient safety, a Harvard Medical School professor and Mass General Brigham executive.

Gregg W. Stone

Gregg W. Stone is an American interventional cardiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for leading the COAPT and ISCHEMIA trials.

Grégoire Courtine

Grégoire Courtine is a neuroscientist and full professor at EPFL and Lausanne University Hospital who develops spinal cord stimulation and brain–spine interfaces that let paralyzed patients walk again.

Gregor K. Wenning

Gregor K. Wenning (Gregor Karl Wenning, 1964–2024) was an Austrian-based neurologist who led multiple system atrophy research in Innsbruck and created the standard rating scale used in its trials.

Gregory A. Brent

Gregory A. Brent is an American endocrinologist at UCLA who studies thyroid hormone action and wrote widely cited New England Journal of Medicine reviews on thyroid disease.

Gregory A. Fabiano

Gregory A. Fabiano is an American clinical child psychologist and professor at Florida International University whose 174-study meta-analysis found behavioral treatment works as well as medication for childhood ADHD.

Gregory A. Poland

Gregory A. Poland is an American physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who originated vaccinomics and has led the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group since 1989.

Gregory A. Roth

Gregory A. Roth is an American cardiologist and professor at the University of Washington who leads cardiovascular disease modeling for IHME's Global Burden of Disease Study.

Gregory C. Gray

Gregory C. Gray is an American infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, known for research on swine influenza and for founding the Millennium Cohort Study.

Gregory D. Lewis

Gregory D. Lewis is an American cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he heads the heart failure section and directs the heart transplant program and cardiopulmonary exercise testing laboratory.

Gregory E. Simon

Gregory E. Simon is an American psychiatrist and senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute who has studied suicide risk assessment and depression care since 1990.

Gregory G. Schwartz

Gregory G. Schwartz is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado and Chief of Cardiology at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora.

Gregory Gregoriadis

Gregory Gregoriadis, also known as G Gregoriadis, was a Greek-born British biochemist who founded liposome drug delivery, proposing in 1971 that liposomes could carry drugs and vaccines.

Gregory J. Dore

Gregory J. Dore, known as Greg Dore, is an Australian hepatologist at the Kirby Institute and St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, known for hepatitis C research and elimination policy.

Gregory J. Gores

Gregory J. Gores is an American hepatologist and gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for research on liver cell death and cholangiocarcinoma, and a past president of AASLD.

Gregory R. Mundy

Gregory R. Mundy (1942–2010) was an Australian-born physician-scientist who showed that cancer destroys bone indirectly by activating osteoclasts, credited with discovering osteoclast activating factor and directing Vanderbilt's Center in Bone Biology.

Gregory Shwartzman

Gregory Shwartzman (1896–1965) was a Russian-born American bacteriologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York who described the Shwartzman phenomenon, a two-injection skin reaction, in 1928.

Gregory Steinberg

Gregory R. Steinberg is a Canadian metabolism researcher and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, co-directing its metabolism research center and known for work on AMPK and metformin.

Gregory T. Armstrong

Gregory T. Armstrong, known as Greg Armstrong, is an American pediatric oncologist and epidemiologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, principal investigator of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

Gregory W. Albers

Gregory W. Albers is a vascular neurologist at Stanford University, director of its Stroke Center since 1992, whose DEFUSE 3 trial helped extend stroke treatment to 24 hours.

Gregory Y. Lauwers

Gregory Y. Lauwers is a gastrointestinal pathologist who led GI pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard from 2000 to 2016 and is now a Senior Member at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.

Griffin P. Rodgers

Griffin P. Rodgers is an American physician-scientist and molecular hematologist who has directed NIDDK at NIH since 2007 and helped develop hydroxyurea, the first effective sickle cell anemia therapy.

Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo

Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo (Григорий Иванович Россолимо; 1860–1928) was a Russian neurologist and psychiatrist known for the Rossolimo toe-flexion reflex and for founding Russia's first children's nervous-disease clinic at his own expense in 1911.

Grover M. Hutchins

Grover M. Hutchins (1932–2010) was an American pathologist at Johns Hopkins for 61 years who directed Autopsy Services and published a landmark 1986 study linking the floppy mitral valve to annular disjunction.

Guadalupe García–Tsao

Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, born in Mexico City, is a hepatologist, Professor of Medicine at Yale, and Chief of Digestive Diseases at VA Connecticut, known for portal hypertension and cirrhosis research.

Guang‐Zhong Yang

Guang-Zhong Yang (杨广中) is a medical robotics researcher and founding dean of the Institute of Medical Robotics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and founding editor of Science Robotics.