William Rivers
William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864–1922): neurologist, anthropologist, WWI shell shock pioneer, dermatomes co-mapper, protopathic/epicritic sensation theorist
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Hans Chiari
Hans Chiari (1851-1916) was an Austrian pathologist. Eponymously affiliated with the Chiari malformation; Type II Chiari malformation (Arnold–Chiari malformation) and Budd–Chiari syndrome
Charles Ballance
Sir Charles Ballance (1856–1936), pioneer of neurosurgery and otology, first performed facial nerve crossover anastomosis in 1895—an enduring milestone.
Carl Wernicke
Carl Wernicke (1848–1905), German neurologist who described Wernicke’s area and aphasia, and identified Wernicke’s encephalopathy from thiamine deficiency
Carl Westphal
Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833-1890) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. Westphal sign, Westphal syndrome, Westphall-Strümpell pseudosclerosis, Westphal-variant Huntington disease, Leyden-Westphal ataxia, and the Edinger-Westphal nucleus
Abraham Colles
Abraham Colles (1773 - 1843) was an Irish surgeon and anatomist. Eponym: Colles Fracture (1814) distal radius/ulna fracture
André Cournand
André Frédéric Cournand (1895 – 1988) was a French physician and physiologist. Awarded the Nobel Prize for detailing heart catheterization
Maurice Sokolow
Maurice Sokolow (1911-2002). American Cardiologist known for his development of ECG criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy (Sokolow-Lyon criteria)
Elizabeth Blackwell
Celebrating the septaquintaquinquecentennial of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States. National Women Physicians Day is held on her birthday February 3rd
August Bier
August Karl Gustav Bier (1861-1949) German Surgeon. Used Esmarch tourniquet forming the basis of his eponymous Bier block regional anaesthesia
Ben J. Wilson
Ben J. Wilson (1920–2015), American surgeon who coined 'necrotizing fasciitis' in 1951, Parkland Hospital leader, and pioneer in surgical infection care
José Luis Bado
José Luis Bado (1903 – 1977) was a Uruguayan surgeon. Eponymously linked to the Bado classification of Monteggia fractures.