James Barnes Wyngaarden (born 1924) is a U.S. physician, researcher and academic administrator. He is a co-editor of one of the leading internal medicine texts, and served as director of
title = Biographical Sketches of the Directors of the National Institutes of Health
url=http://www.nih.gov/about/almanac/archive/1999/historical-data/biographical.html
accessdate = 2007-02-21 ]
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