, MD 1899, hailed as the "Father of Modern Anesthesia," with
Charles Baskerville •
Jean R. Anderson, MD 1986 – internationally recognized
obstetrician and
gynaecologist, founder and first director of the
Johns Hopkins Hospital HIV Women's Health Program (1991) •
Jeff Balser, MD 1990 - President and CEO of
Vanderbilt University Medical Center and dean of the School of Medicine •
Nathaniel Barrett, MD 1886 – American
physician and politician •
Humphrey Bate, MD 1898 – American
physician and
musician who served as a surgeon in the
Spanish–American War (1898) •
Eugene Lindsay Bishop, MD 1914 – Commissioner for the Tennessee State Health Department,
Lasker Award •
Daniel Blain, MD 1929 – first Medical Director of the
American Psychiatric Association (APA) •
Ogden Bruton, MD 1933 - made significant advances in
immunology, discovered
Bruton-type agammaglobulinemia, namesake of
Bruton's tyrosine kinase •
Michael Burry, MD 1997 – founder of the
Scion Capital LLC hedge fund, portrayed by
Christian Bale in the 2015 film
The Big Short •
Thomas C. Butler, MD 1967 – scientist specializing in infectious diseases including
cholera and
bubonic plague, credited with making oral hydration the standard treatment for
diarrhea •
David Charles, MD 1990 – neurologist, Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Neuroscience Institute, Director of Telemedicine at
Vanderbilt University Medical Center. •
Alice Drew Chenoweth, MD 1932 – physician who specialized in
pediatrics and
public health, served as the Chief of the Division of Health Services in the
United States Children's Bureau •
Kathleen R. Cho, MD 1984 – professor of pathology and internal medicine at
Michigan Medicine,
National Academy of Medicine •
Stanley Cohen – biochemist; co-discovered epidermal growth factor •
Robert D. Collins, MD 1951 – American
physician and
pathologist who established the Lukes–Collins scheme for pathologic classification of
lymphoma •
Ed Connor, MS 1982 –
neuroscientist who has made important contributions to the
neuroscience of object synthesis in higher-level
visual cortex, Professor of Neuroscience at
Johns Hopkins University •
Francis M. Fesmire, MD 1985 –
emergency physician and nationally recognized expert in
myocardial infarction •
Don Flickinger, MD 1934 –
US Air Force Brigadier General,
aerospace medicine pioneer; commander,
Air Force Office of Scientific Research,
Distinguished Service Medal •
Agnes Fogo, MD – professor of
renal pathology at the
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2019
Roscoe R. Robinson Award •
John E. Fryer, MD 1962 – Activist whose speech at the
American Psychiatric Association was a key factor in the de-listing of
homosexuality as a
mental illness from the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders •
John W. Gaines, MD 1882 –
United States House of Representatives for
Tennessee (1897–1909) •
J. Donald M. Gass, MD 1957 – Canadian-American ophthalmologist, one of the world's leading specialists on diseases of the retina, first to describe many
macular diseases •
Antonio Gotto, MD 1965 – physician scientist; expert in the field of lipid diseases and former dean of
Weill Cornell Medicine •
James Tayloe Gwathmey, MD 1899 – anesthesiologist; first president of the American Association of Anesthetics and co-author of
Anesthesia, the first medical textbook on the subject •
Charles Robert Hager, MD 1894 - Swiss-American missionary, founder of the China Congregational Church in
Hong Kong, baptized
Sun Yat-sen, first President of the
Republic of China •
Richard Hatchett, MD 1995 – CEO of
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations,
Health and Human Services Distinguished Service Award •
Patrick Ho JP, MD 1976 - former Professor of Surgery (Ophthalmology) at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong, former
Secretary for Home Affairs,
Hong Kong •
Dorothy M. Horstmann – American
epidemiologist,
virologist and
pediatrician whose research on the spread of
poliovirus in the human bloodstream helped set the stage for the development of the
polio vaccine •
Kung Hsiang-fu, PhD 1969 – Chinese
geneticist and
oncologist, former Director of the
University of Hong Kong's Institute of Molecular Biology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences •
Walter Russell Lambuth, MD 1877 – missionary and physician; founder of Soochow Hospital in China •
Louis Lowenstein, MD -
medical researcher who made significant contributions in
hematology and
immunology •
G. Patrick Maxwell, MD –
plastic surgeon, first successful report of microsurgical transfer of the
latissimus muscle flap at
Johns Hopkins University, advanced the design of tissue expanders used for breast reconstruction •
Merrill Moore, MD 1928 – psychiatrist, Harvard Medical School professor, and poet. •
Harold L. Moses, MD 1962 – Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, Professor of Cancer Biology, Medicine and Pathology, and Director Emeritus at the
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, president of the
American Association for Cancer Research (1991) •
George C. Nichopoulos, MD 1959 – American physician best known as
Elvis Presley's personal
physician •
Lee E. Payne, MD 1983 – United States Air Force, former Command Surgeon of the
Air Mobility Command,
Distinguished Service Medal •
Stuart C. Ray, MD 1990 – Vice Chair of Medicine for Data Integrity and Analytics, Associate Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program at the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine •
Sanford Rosenthal, MD 1920 – pioneered
liver function tests, discovered
rongalite as the
antidote for mercury poisoning, discovered an antibiotic cure for
pneumococcal pneumonia,
Public Health Service Meritorious Service Medal (1962) •
Samuel Santoro, MD 1979 - pioneering researcher in the structure of integrin adhesive receptors for extracellular matrix proteins, Chair of the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at
Vanderbilt •
Robert Taylor Segraves, MD 1971 -
American psychiatrist best known for his work on
sexual dysfunction and its
pharmacologic causes and treatments •
Norman Shumway, MD 1949 – 67th president of the
American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the first to perform a successful
heart transplant in the United States •
John Abner Snell, MD 1908 – medical missionary and superintendent of Soochow Hospital, China •
Sophie Spitz, MD 1932 –
pathologist who published the first case series of a special form of
benign melanocytic nevi that have come to be known as
Spitz nevi •
Mildred T. Stahlman, MD 1946 – Professor of pediatrics and pathology; founded first
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the world •
J. William Stokes, MD 1888 –
United States House of Representatives for
South Carolina (1896–1901) •
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. – pharmacologist and biochemist; discovered the second messenger molecule cyclic-AMP •
Ghanshyam Swarup, Indian molecular biologist known for his studies on
glaucoma and the discovery of
protein tyrosine phosphatase,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate •
Carol Tamminga, MD 1971 – American
psychiatrist and
neuroscientist focusing in schizophrenia, psychotic bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder,
National Academy of Medicine fellow •
Robert V. Tauxe, MD – Director of the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention •
Rhonda Voskuhl, MD –
physician and
research scientist, Brain Research Institute (BRI) at the
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA,
principal investigator for treatment trials for
multiple sclerosis (MS) •
Levi Watkins, MD 1970 – pioneer in cardiac surgery; co-invented the automatic implantable defibrillator •
Sheldon M. Wolff, MD 1957 – former Chair of the Department of Medicine at
Tufts University and Clinical Director of the
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