List of People From Birmingham, Alabama - Medicine

Medicine

  • James Andrews, nationally renowned orthopedic specialist
  • Alan Heldman, interventional cardiologist and pioneer of the drug eluting stent
  • John W. Kirklin, pioneering heart surgeon
  • Albert Pacifico, renowned heart surgeon
  • Michael Saag, prominent AIDS researcher
  • Luther Leonidas Terry, Surgeon General of the United States
  • Tinsley Harrison, editor of first five editions of Harrison's Principals of Internal Medicine and dean of UAB School of Medicine

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