Indiana University School of Medicine - Famous Alumni and Faculty

Famous Alumni and Faculty

  • Robert Gumbiner: Founder of FHP International Corporation, the first HMO
  • Harvey Feigenbaum: pioneer in the field of echocardiography
  • Lawrence Einhorn: pioneered the development of the medical treatment in 1974 for testicular cancer, increasing the survival rate from 10% to 95%
  • John Hayes: Eli Lilly executive
  • Adam M. Robinson: Surgeon General of the United States Navy
  • William S. Dalton: Current President and CEO of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute. Former Dean of the University of Arizona School of Medicine
  • H. Michael Shepard: Led the discovery and development of breast cancer drug Herceptin while at Genentech.
  • Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellow at Indiana University.
  • Jill Bolte Taylor: Famous neuroanatamist who at a TED talk shared her experiences of studying herself during a stroke and author of My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, a best-selling book which will be made into a major motion picture by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Imagine Entertainment
  • Henry Feffer: Famous American neurosurgeon
  • Tom Hayhurst: Doctor and politician
  • Jane E. Henney: Oncologist; First woman to serve as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • Chet Jastremski: Olympic swimmer and medalist
  • R. Ellen Magenis: Distinguished American pediatrician and geneticist
  • Joseph E. Robertson: President of Oregon Health & Science University since September 2006.
  • Jack Yang: Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalized Medicine (IJFIPM).
  • David L. Felten: Former professor at IUSM; MacArthur Fellow and famous neurobiologist whose research established a link between the immune and central nervous system

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