16 Notable alumni of
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
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SUNY Downstate Medical Center is 1876th in the world, 655th in North America, and 617th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 16 notable alumni from SUNY Downstate Medical Center sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with SUNY Downstate Medical Center won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Gary Wright
- Occupations
- songwritersingerrock singerrock musicianrecording artist
- Biography
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Gary Malcolm Wright was an American musician and composer best known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive". Wright's breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver (1975), came after he had spent seven years in London as, alternately, a member of the British blues rock band Spooky Tooth and a solo artist on A&M Records. While in England, he played keyboards on former Beatle George Harrison's triple album All Things Must Pass (1970), so beginning a friendship that inspired the Indian religious themes and spirituality inherent in Wright's subsequent songwriting. His work from the late 1980s onwards embraced world music and the new age genre, although none of his post-1976 releases matched the same level of popularity as The Dream Weaver.
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Stanley Plotkin
- Occupations
- virologistphysician
- Biography
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Stanley Alan Plotkin is an American physician who works as a consultant to vaccine manufacturers, such as Sanofi Pasteur, as well as biotechnology firms, non-profits and governments. In the 1960s, he played a pivotal role in discovery of a vaccine against rubella virus while working at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. Plotkin was a member of Wistar’s active research faculty from 1960 to 1991. Today, in addition to his emeritus appointment at Wistar, he is emeritus professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. His book, Vaccines, is the standard reference on the subject. He is an editor with Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, which is published by the American Society for Microbiology in Washington, D.C.
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Robert F. Furchgott
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998
- Born in
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United States - Years
- 1916-2009 (aged 93)
- Occupations
- university teacherpharmacologistphysicianpharmacistchemist
- Biography
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Robert Francis Furchgott was a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems.
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Susan Love
- Enrolled in SUNY Downstate Medical Center
- Graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- writersurgeon
- Biography
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Susan Margaret Love was an American surgeon, a prominent advocate of preventive breast cancer research, and author. She was regarded as one of the most respected women's health specialists in the United States. Love is best known for pioneering work fueled by her criticism of the medical establishment's paternalistic treatment of women. She was an early advocate of cancer surgery that conserves as much breast tissue as possible. She also was among the first to sound the alarm on the risks of routine hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopausal women.
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Ali S. Khan
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Ali S. Khan is an American practicing physician and former Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since July 2014, he has served as Dean of the College of Public Health and Retired Assistant Surgeon General at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Barbara Starfield
- Occupations
- pediatrician
- Biography
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Barbara Starfield was an American pediatrician. She was an advocate for primary health care worldwide. Her academic and professional life was almost fully dedicated to the Johns Hopkins University.
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Alexander Skene
- Occupations
- gynaecologistphysicianinventorsculptormilitary physician
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Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene was a British-American gynaecologist from Scotland who described what became known as Skene's glands.
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John Fremont Hill
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Fremont Hill was an American businessman and politician. He served in a number of positions in Maine government, including as the 45th Governor of Maine from 1901 to 1905.
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Herb Pardes
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- 1934-.. (age 90)
- Occupations
- psychiatrist
- Biography
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Herbert Pardes is an American physician, psychiatrist, and the executive vice-chairman of NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital.
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Robert Contiguglia
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 83)
- Biography
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S. Robert "Bob" Contiguglia served as President of the United States Soccer Federation from 1998 to 2006. Among his achievements as President of U.S. Soccer were: successfully hosting the 1999 Women's World Cup, convincing FIFA to relocate the 2003 Women's World Cup to the United States after the original plans to host it in China fell through, the U.S. women's team winning gold at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and hiring Bruce Arena as coach for the United States men's national team. In May 2018, Contiguglia was selected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
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Ralph Snyderman
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Ralph Snyderman is a Chancellor Emeritus at Duke University, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, and Executive Director of the Duke Center for Personalized Health Care. He served as chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine from 1989 to July 2004. Under his leadership, Duke University created the Duke University Health System to develop and operate a comprehensive health delivery system, and he was its founding President and Chief Executive Officer. DUHS, with its practice networks, ambulatory care centers, home health services, community hospitals, university hospital, and satellite collaborations demonstrated the power of academic medicine to deliver the best of care to broad communities. Snyderman helped lead the creation of the largest academic clinical research organization worldwide. During his tenure, Duke University Hospital was ranked 6th overall in the nation and its medical school ranked 4th. Snyderman is a leader in the conception and development of personalized health care, an evolving model of national health care delivery. He has articulated the need to move the current focus of health care from the treatment of disease-events to personalized, predictive, preventive, and participatory care that is focused on the patient. As Senior Vice-President at Genentech, he led the development of powerful new molecular biology therapeutics. Ralph Snyderman was the recipient of the 2012 David E. Rogers Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges which recognized him as "The Father of Personalized Medicine." He is a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (chair 2002-2003), Association of American Physicians (President 2003-2004), American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine.
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Henry Waldo Coe
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- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Henry Waldo Coe was a United States frontier physician and politician.
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Samuel Waxman
- Occupations
- researcheroncologist
- Biography
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Samuel Waxman is the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Professor of Medicine, Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Hematology, and Medical Oncology, and the Distinguished Service Professor of Oncological Sciences at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where he has been a member of the faculty for over 30 years.
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A. L. Mestel
- Years
- 1926-2022 (aged 96)
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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Ascher Lawrence Mestel was an American pediatric surgeon and artist who was based in Brooklyn, New York. He was one of the pioneers in the field of pediatric surgery and was widely published. Mestel was especially well known for the groundbreaking first successful separation of Ischiopagus Tripus conjoined twins.
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Helene Mambu
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Hélène Mambu-ma-Disu is a Congolese public health expert, physician, pediatrician and United Nations diplomat. She served as a Regional Adviser for the African regional office of the United Nations' World Health Organization, and later went on to serve for 18 years as a World Health Organization Resident Representative in several countries in the region, before retiring in 2008. She is currently Senior Program Officer for the Sustainable Immunization Financing Program of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, for whom she coordinates field activities in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, and Madagascar.
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Orlando Williams Wight
- Years
- 1824-1888 (aged 64)
- Occupations
- linguisttranslatorwriter
- Biography
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Orlando Williams Wight was an American physician and translator.
