Baylor College of Medicine - Notable Physicians and Researchers

Notable Physicians and Researchers

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• Bert W. O'Malley — National Medal of Science winner, member National Academy of Sciences for advances in hormone action and gene expression
• Salih Wakil, Ph. D — member National Academy of Sciences for discoveries regarding fatty acids synthesis
• Paul Randall Harrington — inventor of the Harrington Rod, a device used to treat scoliosis.
• Huda Zoghbi — Member of National Academy of Sciences; Investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Award-winning neuropsychiatrist; Director of Jan and Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Houston, Texas.
• John Barnhill — Chief of the Consultation-Liaison Service at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
• Hugo Bellen — noted developmental biologist; Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
• Michael Glyn Brown (graduate of academic program, former hand surgeon)
• Lars Georg Svensson — Director of the Aorta Center and Director of the Marfan Syndrom and Connective Tissue Disorder Clinic and Cleveland Clinic
• Malcolm Brenner Ph.D., — Director, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
• William "Bill" R. Brinkley; American cell biologist and early contributor to discovery of mitotic spindle apparatus
• Mohammad Athari, M.D. — Neurologist and founder of Universal MRI and Diagnostics, Inc.
• Leroy Chiao, Astronaut and Commander of the International Space Station, Chairman of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute User Panel, and Co-investigator for the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity Project
• C. Thomas Caskey — American internist and prominent medical geneticist and biomedical entrepreneur.
• David C. Hilmers — Former astronaut and current professor of medicine and pediatrics.
• Michael E. DeBakey — award-winning cardiovascular surgeon
• David Eagleman — neuroscientist and writer
• Mark Kline, M.D — Physician-in-Chief of Texas Children's Hospital; Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics; President of the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI)
• William J. Klish — influential pediatrician
• H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. — American philosopher
• Ralph Feigin — Former President, Baylor College of Medicine; Chief of Pediatrics and President of Texas Children's Hospital; author, Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
• Roger Guillemin — Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine (1977)
• Read Montague — Director of the College's Human Neuroimaging Laboratory
• Andrew W. Schally — Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine (1977)
• Peter G. Traber — President Emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine.
• Denton Cooley — founder of the Texas Heart Institute and world-renowned cardiovascular surgeon. Carried out the first successful implantation of an artificial heart.
• O. H. Frazier — Heart surgeon who has performed over 1,000 transplants.
• Michael J. Reardon — Internationally known heart surgeon who developed first successful cardiac auto transplantation for cardiac sarcoma.
• F. Charles Brunicardi, MD — Chair, DeBakey Department of Surgery and Editor-in-Chief of Schwartz's Principles of Surgery
• Brendan H Lee, MD, PhD — Professor, Molecular and Human Genetics, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• James Lovelock — Former professor, chemist, proponent of Gaia hypothesis.
• Richard A. Gibbs, PhD — pioneering geneticist.
• Leslie A. Geddes, PhD — PhD, pioneering biomedical engineer and inventor.
• Huntly D. Millar — founder and owner of Millar Instruments, Inc., worldwide distributor of catheter-tip pressure sensors.
• David Poplack, MD — Director, Texas Children's Cancer Center, Professor of Pediatrics.
• Lorraine Potocki, M.D. — Medical Geneticist and researcher, co-discoverer of the genetic disorder Potocki-Lupski syndrome (PTLS).
• Arthur L. Beaudet, M.D. — Chairman of the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.