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David Charles (B.S. 1986, M.D. 1990) – neurologist, Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Neuroscience Institute, director of telemedicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Alice Drew Chenoweth (M.D. 1932) – physician who specialized in pediatrics and public health , served as the Chief of the Division of Health Services in the ...

In 1928, the two institutions fully moved to the new medical center. In 1925, the Sloane Hospital for Women, a leader in obstetrics and gynecology that had been founded in 1886, was incorporated. In 1928, Sloan, along with The Squier Urological Clinic and the Vanderbilt Clinic, moved to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

William J. Darby, founder of the first nutrition research center at an American medical school at Vanderbilt University, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and widely regarded nutrition scientist. Gazi Yasargil, Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon. In 1999 he was honored as "Neurosurgery’s Man of the Century 1950–1999" at ...

Medical professionals gathered and collected data on the CIA's use of torture techniques on detainees during the 21st century war on terror, to refine those techniques, and "to provide legal cover for torture, as well as to help justify and shape future procedures and policies", according to a 2010 report by Physicians for Human Rights.

A university hospital is an institution which combines the services of a hospital with the education of medical students and with medical research. These hospitals are typically affiliated with a medical school or university.

Arthur Guyton (1919-2003), physiologist, author of Textbook of Medical Physiology Edward Hill , family physician, AMA president Leonard McCoy (2227-2364), fictional Star Trek character; chief medical officer, USS Enterprise , Starfleet admiral