Notable Alumni and Faculty
- John Jacob Abel - "father of pharmacology"; discovered epinephrine and crystallized insulin
- Robert Bartlett - inventor of ECMO
- William Henry Beierwaltes - founder of MIBI scan and "father of nuclear medicine"
- Keith Black - neurosurgeon
- David Botstein - geneticist, first argued that the human genome could be mapped
- Edward Bove - congenital heart surgeon, first described hypoplastic left-heart syndrome
- Leslie J. Browne - President, Chief Executive Officer of Pharmacopeia
- Alexa Canady - the first African-American female neurosurgeon in the country
- Ben Carson - director of pediatric neurological surgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Center
- Stanley Cohen - biochemist, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1986) for his discovery of the epidermal and nerve growth factors
- Francis Collins - director of the NIH Human Genome Project and discoverer of the most common mutation for cystic fibrosis
- Jerome Conn - first described primary hyperaldosteronism - Conn's Syndrome
- Elizabeth C. Crosby - neuroanatomist
- Ronald M. Davis - President of American Medical Association (AMA)
- Thomas Francis - proved the efficacy of the first polio vaccine
- Lazar Greenfield - founder of the inferior vena cava filter ("the Greenfield Filter")
- Sanjay Gupta - CNN medical correspondent, neurosurgeon
- H.H. Holmes - one of the first documented American serial killers
- Jack Kevorkian - controversial proponent of the legalization of euthanasia
- Ronald Koenig - discovery and development of HbA1c as a key assay in diabetes
- Josiah K. Lilly Jr. - Chairman and President of Eli Lilly and Company
- William James Mayo - co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
- Karin Muraszko - first woman chair of neurological surgery in the U.S.
- Elizabeth Nabel - cardiologist, director of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
- Antonia Novello - first woman and first Hispanic Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993
- Melvyn Rubenfire- cardiologist, Director of The Preventive Cardiology Department
- Sanjay Saint - author of the Saint-Frances series of medical books
- Eric B. Schoomaker - Surgeon General of the United States Army
- Homer Stryker - founder of Stryker Corporation.
- William E. Upjohn (MED: MD 1875) (June 15, 1853 – October 18, 1932), founder and president of The Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
- Kimberly Dawn Wisdom - nation's first state surgeon general
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