Theory and Practice of Medicine Herbert Eugene Smith (1885–1910): physician and chemist George Blumer (1910–1920) Milton Winternitz (1920–1935): pathologist Stanhope Bayne-Jones (1935–1940): physician and bacteriologist Francis Gilman Blake (1940–1947) Cyril Norman Hugh Long (1947–1952): physician and biochemist Vernon W. Lippard (1952–1967) Frederick Carl Redlich (1967–1972): psychiatrist Lewis Thomas (1972–1973): physician and author Robert Berliner (1973–1984) Leon Rosenberg (1984–1991) Robert M. Donaldson (acting) (1991–1992) Gerard N. Burrow (1992–1997) David Aaron Kessler (1997–2003): pediatrician, lawyer and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration Dennis Spencer (acting) (2003–2004): neurosurgeon Robert Alpern (2004–2020): nephrologist Nancy J. Brown (2020–present) Notable faculty Current Gretchen Berland: physician and filmmaker Hilary Blumberg (2015–): Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience Arthur L. Horwich (1984–): Sterling Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics, uncovered the action of chaperonins in his study of protein folding Marcella Nunez-Smith: Co-chair of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Task Force Onyema Ogbuagu: associate professor, director of the Yale AIDS Program clinical trials unit James Rothman (2008–): Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Lisa Sanders: The New York Times Diagnosis columnist, technical advisor for TV show House, M.D. Joan Steitz (1970–): Sterling Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry Past C. Lee Buxton (1953–1965): obstetrician, birth control advocate and appellant in Griswold v. Connecticut Harvey Cushing (1933–1937): neurosurgeon, pioneer of brain surgery, identified Cushing's syndrome Russell Henry Chittenden (1900–1922): physiological chemist, pioneer of digestion and nutrition James William Colbert Jr., (1950–1953): immunologist, Assistant Dean of Postgraduate Education, and father of comedian Stephen Colbert Marilyn Farquhar (1973–1990): cell biologist, first woman Sterling Professor at Yale Stephen Fleck (1912–2002): psychiatrist, coauthor of Schizophrenia and the Family John Farquhar Fulton (1929–1960): Sterling Professor of Physiology, neurophysiology of primates Patricia Goldman-Rakic (1979–2003): neurobiologist, pioneer of studies on the frontal lobe and the cellular basis of working memory Arnold Gesell (1911–1949): psychologist and pediatrician, developed the Yale Child Study Center Alfred Gilman Sr. (1935–1943, 1973–1984): pharmacologist, chemotherapy pioneer and co-author of The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics Harry S.N. Greene (1943–1969): professor of pathology Dorothy Horstmann: epidemiologist, virologist, pioneer in the study of polio and the first woman appointed as a professor at the school Orvan Hess: developed the fetal heart monitor and early use of penicillin James D. Jamieson (1973–2018): cell biologist, established the function of the Golgi apparatus alongside George Palade Theodore Lidz (1951–1978): Sterling Professor of