of being the first surgeon to perform a jaw transplant in New York State, and the first jaw transplant ever to combine donor jaw with bone marrow from the patient Steven M. Greer – Physician and ufologist Jeffrey Gusky – Explorer and emergency physician Howard A. Howe - virologist, polio researcher Rahul M. Jindal - Indian-American transplant surgeon known for setting up a renal replacement therapy program which led to the only comprehensive kidney transplant and dialysis program in Guyana. Paul Kalanithi – Neurosurgeon and writer David A. Karnofsky, medical oncologist known for the Karnofsky score Kenneth Kaushansky – MD, MACP, Hematologist, Dean of Stony Brook Medicine I. Michael Leitman - American surgeon and medical educator, Mount Sinai. Jerry M. Linenger – NASA astronaut and medical doctor Mary Ann McLaughlin – Cardiologist Jock McKeen – Physician, acupuncturist, co-founder of the Haven Institute Marshall M. Parks – Known to many as "the father of pediatric ophthalmology". Robert Provenzano – Nephrologist Daniel Roses - Surgeon and Educator, Jules Leonard Whitehill Professor of Surgery and Oncology of the New York University School of Medicine Jonas Salk – Developer of the polio vaccine David Satcher – 10th Assistant Secretary for Health from 1998 to 2001 and the 16th Surgeon General of the United States from 1998 to 2002 Harry Schachter - Canadian biochemist Robert A. Schwartz – Dermatologist Dave Weldon – Politician and physician Paul Alan Wetter - Minimally invasive and robotic surgery pioneer, University of Miami School of Medicine Percy Wootton – Former President of the American Medical Association Similar societies Gold Humanism Honor Society, abbreviated "GHHS" Phi Beta Kappa Phi Kappa Phi Sigma Xi Sigma Sigma Phi, abbreviated "SSP", the national Honorary Service fraternity of osteopathic medicine Omega Beta Iota, abbreviated "ΩΒΙ", the National Osteopathic Political Action Honor Society References External links ΑΩΑ national website http://alphaomegaalpha.org/latest_issue.html http://alphaomegaalpha.org/programs.html Alpha Omega Alpha Archives (1894–1992)—National Library of Medicine finding aid Honor societies Medical education in the United States Student organizations established in 1902 1902 establishments in Illinois Former members of Association of College Honor Societies