Work of national/international impact; leading researcher/inventor in field

• C. Frederick Kittle, AB ’42 and HON ’67, surgeon who performed Chicago’s first heart transplant; important collector of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first editions and correspondence


• William Sprague, BS ’48, whose medical missions in Central and South America, Africa, Asia and the South Pacific earned him the American Medical Association’s prestigious Benjamin Rush Award for Citizenship and Community Service in 1999


• Paul J. Anderson, BS ’49, leading researcher in neurology and pathology


• Ariel C. Hollinshead, AB ’51 and HON ’77, developer of a lung-cancer vaccine


• Jerome Alpiner, BA ’54, PhD ’61, author, “Rehabilitative Audiology: Children and Adults,” a bestseller in the field


• Charles E. Speaks, BSED ’57, MA ’58, well-known investigator on speech intelligibility


• D.William Schlott, BS ’58, Philip A. Tumulty Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University


• Jerri Cahill Nielsen, BS '74, American physician who spent a year stationed at Antarctica's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station while battling breast cancer and wrote the New York Times best-seller "Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole"
  See more: Jerri Cahill Nielsen (Wikipedia)


• Thomas Powers, MA ’75, PhD ’77, audiologist who fitted then-President Ronald Reagan with his first hearing aid


• Michael Crary, MA ’76, PhD ’78, internationally known researcher into apraxia, voice disorders and dysphagia


• Daniel F. Dickriede, DO ’87, 1999 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize as a member of Doctors Without Borders for their pioneering humanitarian work on several continents.


• James Joye, DO ’88, inventor of the PolarCath Peripheral CryoPlasty System to treat peripheral vascular disease


• David Klossner, PHD ’99, executive director of sports medicine, NCAA