University of Michigan Health System - Notable Alumni and Faculty

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