Joseph R. Bertino is an American who teaches medicine and pharmacology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New ... View More

Joseph R. Bertino is an American who teaches medicine and pharmacology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey and does research in the cancer pharmacology department at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. He conducted studies on lymphoma treatment. View Less

Patrizia Casaccia is an Italian neuroscientist who teaches neuroscience, genetics and genomics, and neurology at the Ica... View More

Patrizia Casaccia is an Italian neuroscientist who teaches neuroscience, genetics and genomics, and neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also the Director of the Neuroscience Initiative of the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center. Casaccia is a trailblazer in myelin research. Understanding the neurobiological and neuroimmune mechanisms behind multiple sclerosis and turning research results into therapeutics are the main goals of her work. Casaccia is one of the directors of the Center for Glial Biology, which she co-founded at Mount Sinai and CUNY. View Less

American doctor Walter Lear was an advocate for LGBT rights and healthcare reform. Lear's efforts include founding the M... View More

American doctor Walter Lear was an advocate for LGBT rights and healthcare reform. Lear's efforts include founding the Maternity Care Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and the Institute of Social Medicine and Community Health. Lear was also one of the founding members of the Medical Community for Human Rights in 1964. For his efforts to advance social justice, he was honored with the Helen Rodriguez-Trias Award from the American Public Health Association. View Less

American gynecologist Ralph Pomeroy gained posthumous fame for creating the female sterilization technique that bears hi... View More

American gynecologist Ralph Pomeroy gained posthumous fame for creating the female sterilization technique that bears his name, the Pomeroy tubal ligation. View Less

One of the first AIDS doctors was Joyce Wallace. In the 1980s, she was one of the first to recognize AIDS and fought to ... View More

One of the first AIDS doctors was Joyce Wallace. In the 1980s, she was one of the first to recognize AIDS and fought to prevent its spread among prostitutes in New York City. Before AIDS was identified in 1981, she was one of the first physicians to diagnose immunodeficient gay men with Kaposi's sarcoma. In 1981, she also released an article that connected AIDS with Kaposi's sarcoma. View Less