Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Caspar Wistar, Class of 1782: president of the American Philosophical Society and President of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery
  • Charles Caldwell, Class of 1796: founder of the University of Louisville School of Medicine
  • Nathaniel Chapman, Class of 1800: first President of the American Medical Association
  • William P. C. Barton: author of A Treatise Containing a Plan for the Internal Organization and Government of Marine Hospitals in the United States... and Dean of Jefferson Medical College
  • Reuben D. Mussey, Class of 1809: in 1862, wrote the first definitive history of tobacco documenting its dangers
  • Samuel A. Cartwright: improved sanitary conditions during the American Civil War and was honored for his investigations into yellow fever and Asiatic cholera
  • Clement Finley, Class of 1818: 10th Surgeon General of the United States Army
  • George McClellan, Class of 1819: founder of Jefferson Medical College, now Thomas Jefferson University
  • John Light Atlee, Class of 1820: one of the organizers of, and past President of the American Medical Association
  • Joseph Pancoast, Class of 1828: surgeon and department chairman at Jefferson Medical College; author of A Treatise on Operative Surgery
  • Thomas R. Potts, Class of 1831: first mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota
  • David Hayes Agnew, Class of 1838: surgeon and author of The Principles and Practice of Surgery
  • Isaiah D. Clawson, Class of 1843: Opposition Party and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey
  • John Daniel Clardy, Class of 1851: Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky
  • Ephraim L. Acker, Class of 1852: Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
  • Joseph Janvier Woodward, Class of 1853: 34th President of the American Medical Association, pioneer in photomicrography, surgeon, performed the autopsies of Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth, and contributed two volumes to the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion
  • Hiram R. Burton, Class of 1868: Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Delaware
  • Lewis Heisler Ball, Class of 1885: Republican member of the U.S. Senate from Delaware
  • William Carlos Williams, Class of 1906: poet, pediatrician, and general practitioner
  • Isaac Starr, Class of 1920: developed the first practical ballistocardiograph; 1957 Albert Lasker Award, 1967 Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians, 1977 Burger Medal of the Free University of Amsterdam
  • William Holmes Crosby Jr., Class of 1940: one of the founding fathers of modern hematology
  • Gerald Edelman, Class of 1954: 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the structure and mode of action of antibodies; founder and director of The Neurosciences Institute; also noted for his theory of secondary consciousness
  • David E. Kuhl, Class of 1955: 2009 Japan Prize, best known for his pioneering work in positron emission tomography
  • Walter Bortz II, Class of 1955: one of America's leading scientific experts on aging
  • Michael Stuart Brown, Class of 1966: 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Stanley B. Prusiner, Class of 1968: 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Arnold Klein, Class of 1971: Beverly Hills dermatologist and television/news medical expert
  • Ann Arvin, Class of 1972: Vice Provost and Dean of Research at Stanford Univ.
  • Robert Barchi, Class of 1973: 20th President of Rutgers University, former President of Thomas Jefferson Univ; former Provost U Penn
  • Robert Grossman, Class of 1973: CEO, NYU Medical Center, neuroradiologist, formerly at U Penn.
  • Mark Groudine, Classes of 1974, 1976: EVP, U Washington Cancer Research Center.
  • Richard Besser, Class of 1986: ABC News medical editor, former acting director for the CDC and the ATSDR
  • Mehmet Oz, Class of 1986: cardiothoracic surgeon and host of The Dr. Oz Show; also alumnus of the Wharton School
  • David Agus, Class of 1991: co-founder of Navigenics, a personal genetic testing company, and Oncology.com
  • Rajiv Shah, Class of 2001: director of USAID, formerly at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; also alumnus of the Wharton School

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