Alpha Omega Alpha - Notable Members

Notable Members

  • Lawrence H. Cohn— cardiac surgeon, researcher, and educator
  • David H. Adams—internationally recognized as a leader in the field of heart valve surgery and mitral valve repair
  • Dave Weldon—politician and physician
  • Kenneth Kaushansky- MD, MACP, Hematologist, Dean of Stony Brook Medicine
  • James P. Bagian—NASA astronaut and physician
  • Jerry M. Linenger NASA astronaut and medical doctor
  • Ben Carson—noted African American neurosurgeon and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • David Satcher—10th Assistant Secretary for Health from 1998 to 2001 and the 16th Surgeon General of the United States from 1998 to 2002
  • Otis R. Bowen—Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981 and Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1985 to 1989
  • Robert Provenzano—nephrologist
  • Charles J McAllister M.D. FACP former Chief Medical Officer of DaVita
  • Mary Ann McLaughlin—cardiologist
  • Gerald M. Edelman-Nobel Laureate
  • Steven M. Greer—physician and ufologist
  • Frank A. Chervenak
  • Robert A. Schwartz—dermatologist
  • William Bennett Bean—internist and medical historian
  • Marshall M. Parks—known to many as "the father of pediatric ophthalmology".
  • Rajeev Venkayya—Director for Global Health Delivery at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Eric M. Genden—otolaryngologist with the distinction of being the first surgeon to perform a jaw transplant in New York State, and the first jaw transplant ever to combine donor jaw with bone marrow from the patient
  • Jonas Salk—Developer of the polio vaccine

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