20 Notable alumni of
Albany Medical College
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Albany Medical College is 2372nd in the world, 831st in North America, and 785th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from Albany Medical College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Thomas C. Durant
- Occupations
- physicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Thomas Clark Durant was an American physician, businessman, and financier. He was vice-president of the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in 1869 when it met with the Central Pacific railroad at Promontory Summit in Utah Territory. He created the financial structure that led to the Crédit Mobilier scandal. He was interested in hotels in the Adirondacks and once owned the yacht Idler.
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Jacob M. Appel
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- writermedical writerjournalistpsychiatristuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jacob M. Appel is an American polymath, author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics, and euthanasia. Appel's novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012. He is the director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and a professor of psychiatry and medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and he practices emergency psychiatry at the adjoining Mount Sinai Health System. Appel is the subject of the 2019 documentary film Jacob by director Jon Stahl.
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
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- surgeonexplorerbotanistresearchergeologist
- Biography
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden was an American geologist noted for his pioneering surveying expeditions of the Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century. He was also a physician who served with the Union Army during the Civil War.
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Theobald Smith
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- pathologistacademicuniversity teacherveterinarian
- Biography
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Theobald Smith FRS HFRSE (July 31, 1859 – December 10, 1934) was a pioneering epidemiologist, bacteriologist, pathologist and professor. Smith is widely considered to be America's first internationally-significant medical research scientist.
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James H. Salisbury
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- botanistinventormilitary physician
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James Henry Salisbury was an American physician and the inventor of the Salisbury steak.
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Jeffrey M. Friedman
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- university teachergeneticist
- Biography
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Jeffrey M. Friedman is a molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has had a major role in the area of human obesity. Friedman is a physician scientist studying the genetic mechanisms that regulate body weight. His research on various aspects of obesity received national attention in late 1994, when it was announced that he and his colleagues had isolated the mouse ob gene and its human homologue. They subsequently found that injections of the encoded protein, leptin, decreases body weight of mice by reducing food intake and increasing energy expenditure. Current research is aimed at understanding the genetic basis of obesity in human and the mechanisms by which leptin transmits its weight-reducing signal.
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Ebenezer Emmons
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- geologistuniversity teacherbotanist
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Ebenezer Emmons, was a pioneering American geologist whose work includes the naming of the Adirondack Mountains in New York as well as a first ascent of Mount Marcy.
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Jef Valkeniers
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- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Jozef Maria Zacharias Valkeniers (Schepdaal, Belgium - 29 December 1932) is a physician-neuropsychiatrist and a Flemish politician.
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John A. Sampson
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- university teachergynaecologist
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John Albertson Sampson was a gynecologist who studied endometriosis.
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Russell Trall
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- physicianwriter
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Russell Thacher Trall was an American physician and proponent of hydrotherapy, natural hygiene and vegetarianism. Trall authored the first American vegan cookbook in 1874.
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Howard Townsend
- Years
- 1823-1867 (aged 44)
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Howard Townsend was a physician practicing in Albany, New York. He was a professor at the Albany Medical College and a member of the staff at the Albany Hospital.
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Thomas William Salmon
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- psychiatrist
- Biography
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Thomas William Salmon, M.D. was a leader of the mental hygiene movement in the United States in early twentieth century.
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Chester Bidwell Darrall
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- 1842-1908 (aged 66)
- Occupations
- politiciansurgeon
- Biography
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Chester Bidwell Darrall was an American Republican Congressman from Louisiana during the latter half of the 19th Century.
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Adrian John Ebell
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- 1840-1877 (aged 37)
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Adrian John Ebell was a doctor, photographer, and proponent of women's education in the United States.
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Henry Palmer
- Occupations
- politiciansurgeon
- Biography
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Henry Palmer was an American physician and educator. He served as a Union Army surgeon in the American Civil War, and later became Surgeon General of the state of Wisconsin. He was also the 12th mayor of Janesville, Wisconsin, and was professor of surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago.
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Michael S. Lauer
- Enrolled in Albany Medical College
- In 1985 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- physician-scientistcardiologist
- Biography
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Michael S. Lauer is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist. He is the deputy director for extramural research at the National Institutes of Health.
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William Elting Johnson
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- politician
- Biography
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William Elting Johnson was an American physician and politician from New York.
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Frank M. Boyce
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- 1851-1931 (aged 80)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frank Marcellus Boyce was an American physician and politician from New York.
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John Swinburne
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Swinburne was an American physician and Republican congressman from New York who served as a medical officer from 1861 to 1864, during the Civil War and as a member of American Ambulance Corps at the Siege of Paris in 1870–71. In his last decade, 1880s, he was briefly mayor of Albany and represented New York's 19th congressional district for one term.
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Jonathan Edwards
- Years
- 1841-1886 (aged 45)
- Occupations
- numismatistwriter
- Biography
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Jonathan Edwards was an American physician and numismatist.
