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Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Pâmela Marchese
Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
2
Thomas L. Rodziewicz
Michigan State University
3
Ethan Stonerook
Wake Forest University
4
George Maliha
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
5
Jana Fehr
Hasso Plattner Institute
6
Khaild AL-Mugheed
Near East University
7
Yamin Shu
Peking University
8
Clare Dyer
BMJ Group (United Kingdom)
9
Maha Mohamed Ghobashi
Cairo University
10
Alexandra Kherbache
KU Leuven

Rising Stars Papers

1
A trustworthy AI reality-check: the lack of transparency of artificial intelligence products in healthcare
Frontiers in Digital Health|2024
109 cit.
2
Guidelines on gender related treatment flouted standards and overlooked poor evidence, finds Cass review
BMJ|2024
18 cit.
3
Cost-effectiveness of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab versus sorafenib as first-line therapy in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma in the US and Chinese setting: a modelling comparison study
BMJ Open|2025
15 cit.
4
Antisemitism in medicine: As Wes Streeting vows sweeping changes, how did we get here?
BMJ|2025
12 cit.
5
MPs back legalising assisted dying in England and Wales
BMJ|2025
11 cit.
6
Post-marketing safety surveillance for the recombinant zoster vaccine (Shingrix), vaccine adverse event reporting system, United States, October 2017–April 2024
Preventive Medicine Reports|2025
9 cit.
7
Health secretary announces national investigation into NHS maternity services
BMJ|2025
7 cit.
8
Cost-effectiveness of sacituzumab tirumotecan versus chemotherapy for patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer in China
The Breast|2025
7 cit.
9
UK ruling that woman refers to biological sex “brings clarity,” says government
BMJ|2025
6 cit.
10
Infected blood: an appalling medical tragedy
BMJ|2024
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Amol S. Navathe
University of Pennsylvania
2
Margarida Maria Espósito dos Santos
Universitario Francisco de Asís
3
John E. Hipskind
Kaweah Delta Health Care District
4
Sarah Wetter
Arizona State University
5
Pamela Galowitz
Brigham and Women's Hospital
6
Emily Denton
Google (United States)
7
Dana Siegal
The Medical Foundation
8
Ravi B. Parikh
Emory Healthcare
9
Sabina Singh
Mata Chanan Devi Hospital
10
Carmela Rinaldi
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Responsabilidade civil
Revista Vianna Sapiens|2022
686 cit.
2
Burden of serious harms from diagnostic error in the USA
BMJ Quality & Safety|2023
194 cit.
3
Paying for artificial intelligence in medicine
npj Digital Medicine|2022
125 cit.
4
Long-term Effect of Machine Learning–Triggered Behavioral Nudges on Serious Illness Conversations and End-of-Life Outcomes Among Patients With Cancer
JAMA Oncology|2023
106 cit.
5
Digital Health Applications in Oncology: An Opportunity to Seize
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute|2022
84 cit.
6
CrowdWorkSheets: Accounting for Individual and Collective Identities Underlying Crowdsourced Dataset Annotation
2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency|2022
68 cit.
7
AI’s Regimes of Representation: A Community-centered Study of Text-to-Image Models in South Asia
Unknown Journal|2023
68 cit.
8
Precision Palliative Care as a Pragmatic Solution for a Care Delivery Problem
Journal of Clinical Oncology|2023
52 cit.
9
The Effect Of Clinician Feedback Interventions On Opioid Prescribing
Health Affairs|2022
43 cit.
10
Evaluating generalizability of oncology trial results to real-world patients using machine learning-based trial emulations
Nature Medicine|2025
37 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Troyen A. Brennan
Harvard University
2
David M. Studdert
Stanford Medicine
3
John D. Hamilton
Duke University
4
Amitabh Chandra
Dartmouth College
5
Wendy Levinson
University of Toronto
6
Peter J. Pronovost
University Hospitals of Cleveland
7
Donald M. Berwick
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
8
Richard Thomson
Newcastle University
9
Helen Burstin
University of Wisconsin–Madison
10
Charles Vincent
University of Oxford

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost
Health Affairs|2008
5.1k cit.
2
An Intervention to Decrease Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in the ICU
New England Journal of Medicine|2006
4.4k cit.
3
The Quality in Australian Health Care Study
The Medical Journal of Australia|1995
2.4k cit.
4
Adverse events in British hospitals: preliminary retrospective record review
BMJ|2001
2.1k cit.
5
Disseminating Innovations in Health Care
JAMA|2003
1.9k cit.
6
Continuous Improvement as an Ideal in Health Care
New England Journal of Medicine|1989
1.7k cit.
7
Incidence and Types of Adverse Events and Negligent Care in Utah and Colorado
Medical Care|2000
1.7k cit.
8
Performance of a Five-Item Mental Health Screening Test
Medical Care|1991
1.7k cit.
9
Five Years After To Err Is Human
JAMA|2005
1.3k cit.
10
Defensive Medicine Among High-Risk Specialist Physicians in a Volatile Malpractice Environment
JAMA|2005
1.2k cit.

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