James Gregory Zimmerly[1] (March 25, 1941 – September 23, 2002) was an American emergency department physician and chief of legal medicine at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
[1] While serving two tours in Vietnam and Cambodia, Zimmerly tracked infectious diseases including malaria, hepatitis and tuberculosis with the aim of protecting troops.
[4] Zimmerly co-discovered the vaccine for meningitis while completing his residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
[3] He became the chief of legal medicine for the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in 1971 and served as chair until 1991.
After he retired from the Army he served as chair and president at the Baltimore Rh Typing Laboratory as well as working for Monumental Life Insurance as a medical director.