of caremore health system, obama administration official william james philosopher mildred fay jefferson anti-abortion activist, first african-american woman to graduate from harvard medical school clay johnston dean of the dell medical school at university of texas at austin elliott p. joslin diabetolologist nathan cooley keep physician who founded the harvard school of dental medicine jonny kim navy seal, er physician, astronaut jim kim physician, global health leader, current president of the world bank melvin konner author, biological anthropologist peter d. kramer 1976 psychiatrist charles krauthammer 1975 columnist daniel laing jr. one of the first african americans to attend, one of the first african-american physicians, expelled after a faculty vote to end the admission of blacks but finished his degree elsewhere theodore k. lawless dermatologist, medical researcher, philanthropist philip j. landrigan epidemiologist, pediatrician aristides leão biologist philip leder geneticist simon levay neuroscientist pam ling castmate on the real world: san francisco joseph lovell surgeon general of the u.s. army (1818–36) karl menninger psychiatrist john s. meyer physician randell mills scientist vamsi mootha systems biologist, geneticist siddhartha mukherjee physician, author joseph murray surgeon woody myers indiana state health commissioner joel mark noe plastic surgeon amos nourse 1817 u.s. senator (1857) borna nyaoke-anoke aids researcher david c. page biologist hiram polk academic geoffrey potts academic morton prince neurologist jayaraj rajagopal bernard and mildred kayden mgh research institute chair and professor of medicine, harvard medical school alexander rich biophysicist oswald hope robertson medical scientist richard s. ross dean emeritus of the johns hopkins school of medicine, baltimore, md, former president of the american heart association wilfredo santa-gómez author george e. shambaugh jr. otolaryngologist alfred sommer academic philip solomon academic psychiatrist paul spangler naval surgeon samuel l. stanley 5th president of stony brook university, academic, physician jill stein 1979 physician, activist, politician felicia stewart physician lubert stryer academic, coauthor of biochemistry yellapragada subbarow biochemist james b. sumner chemist orvar swenson 1937 pediatric surgeon, performed first surgery for hirschsprung's disease helen b. taussig cardiologist, helped develop blalock–taussig shunt john templeton jr. president of the john templeton foundation e. donnall thomas physician lewis thomas essayist abby howe turner academic george eman vaillant psychiatrist mark vonnegut author, pediatrician joseph warren soldier amy wax 1981 robert mundheim professor of law at the university of pennsylvania law school andrew weil 1968 proponent of alternative medicine and integrative medicine paul dudley white cardiologist robert j. white neurosurgeon who performed first monkey head transplant in the 1970s patrisha zóbel de ayala chairman of world medical association, surgeon, anesthesiologist, neurologist, medical researcher charles f. winslow early atomic theorist leonard wood chief of staff of the united states army, governor-general of the philippines louis t. wright researcher, practitioner, first black fellow of the american college of surgeons david wu member of the u.s. house of representatives (1999–2011) jeffries wyman anatomist alfred worcester general practitioner mark schuster 1988 dean and founding ceo, kaiser permanente bernard j. tyson school of medicine patrick tyrance 1997 orthopedic surgeon, former academic all american linebacker for the nebraska cornhuskers football team, picked by the los angeles rams in the 1991 nfl draft jennifer doudna 1989 2020 nobel prize recipient in the field of chemistry for the discovery of crispr cas9