Notable Alumni and Faculty
- James Andrews (physician), M.D., Former house staff, orthopedics (1969–1972), internationally known orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist. Founder of American Sports Medicine Institute, member of the Sports medicine Committee of the United States Olympic Committee. team physician for a number of professional and collegiate teams. Surgeon to numerous professional athletes including Jack Nicklaus, Michael Jordan, Emmitt Smith, John Smoltz, Brett Favre, Drew Brees, Troy Aikman, Charles Barkley, Bo Jackson, and many others.
- George E. Burch, M.D., 1933, internationally known cardiologist; Editor, American Heart Journal. 1959-1982; Chairman of the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel on Cardiovascular Diseases and Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Army on Environmental Medicine and Physiology involved in successfully sending the first two chimpanzees into space, continuing as a consultant to NASA
- Charles Cassidy (C.C.) Bass, M.D., 1899, pioneer researcher on malaria, hookworm, and dental caries; Dean, Tulane School of Medicine, 1922-40 (Tulane's Golden Years).
- Elizabeth Bass, M.D., 1911, one of the first women faculty at the medical school, three years before women were admitted as students
- Jay Cavanaugh, Ph.D, 1994, member, California State Board of Pharmacy (1980–90), director, American Alliance for Medical Cannabis, 2001
- Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., 1932, pioneer of modern medicine (cardiovascular surgery) and recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal
- Dean H. Echols, M.D., faculty 1937-1973, first neurosurgeon on faculty of Tulane; one of eight founders of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery and first President; establishes The Society of Neurological Surgeons Foundation; trains 4 neurosurgeons who subsequently become academic department chairmen.
- H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., M.D.; Ph.D. Tulane 1972. American philosopher specializing in continental philosophy and medical ethics. Professor of philosophy at Rice University.
- Paul Finger, M.D., 1982, pioneered the use of palladium-103 plaque radiation to treat choroidal melanoma and 3D and high-frequency ultrasound to image intraocular tumors.
- Edgar Hull, M.D., 1927, co-founder of Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (1931) and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport (1969); later disputed the T. Harry Williams account of the assassination and death of Huey Pierce Long, Jr.
- Louis J. Ignarro, faculty (1973–1985), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998)
- Thomas Naum James, M.D., 1949, director, World Health Organization cardiovascular center
- Ruth L. Kirschstein, M.D., 1951, director, National Institutes of Health, for whom the Kirschstein NRSA grant program is named
- Alvan Lafargue, attended prior to 1910, physician in Sulphur (1915–1962), mayor of Sulphur, 1926–1932
- Leslie L. Lukash, M.D., 1944, Nassau County, NY medical examiner, inspiration for the television show Quincy, M.D. Founded National Association of Medical Examiners.
- Rudolph Matas, M.D., 1880, "father of vascular surgery"
- William Larimer Mellon, Jr., M.D., M’53, founder, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Haiti
- Alton Ochsner, faculty, founder of Ochsner Clinic, pioneer anti-smoking advocate, President of the American Cancer Society, President of the American College of Surgeons, President of the International Society of Surgeons, Chairman of the Section on Surgery for the American Medical Association, and President of the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation; received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Medical Association in 1967; popularized blood typing and blood transfusion in Europe; physician to Argentina's Juan Perón.
- Donald J. Palmisano, M.D., A&S 1960, M 1963, President of the American Medical Association.
- Andrew V. Schally, former faculty, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1977), French Legion of Honor
- Ross Taubman, American Podiatric Medical Association president
- Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., 1935, U.S. surgeon general (1961–1965)
- Lewis Thomas, former faculty (1948–1950), physician, researcher, and essayist
- Paul Wehrle, physician who helped develop of methods to prevent and treat polio and smallpox
- Charles B. Wilson, M.D., 1954, Neurosurgeon, pioneer in pituitary tumor treatment; Cushing Medal recipient.
- Maxwell Wintrobe, M.D.; Ph.D., Tulane, 1929, faculty (1927–30), pioneer in hematology developing method for hematocrit and sedimentation rate measurement and Wintrobe indices (MCV, MCH, MCHC) while at Tulane. Rewriting Musser's chapter on Diseases of Blood for Tice Practice of Medicine subsequently becomes the basis for Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology textbook.
- Robert "Bobby" Brown, M.D., Cardiologist, Professional baseball player, and baseball executive
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