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Adrian F. Hernandez

Adrian F. Hernandez (Adrian Felipe Hernandez) is an American cardiologist, Vice Dean of Duke School of Medicine and Executive Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute since 2020.

Albert Starr

Albert Starr (1926–2024) was an American cardiovascular surgeon who, with engineer Lowell Edwards, developed and implanted the first successful artificial heart valve in Portland, Oregon, in 1960.

Andrew E. Arai

Andrew E. Arai is an American cardiologist who led the NIH cardiac MRI research program from 1994 to 2021 and is now a professor at the University of Utah.

Andrew Wang (medical researcher, Duke Medical Center)

Andrew Wang is an American cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at Duke University who directs its Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic and specializes in transcatheter valve procedures.

Arthur A. Sasahara

Arthur A. Sasahara (born 1927) is an American cardiologist and thrombosis researcher, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, known for work on pulmonary embolism and thrombolytic therapy.

Arthur Selzer

Arthur Selzer was an American cardiologist, Chief of Cardiology at Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco for twenty-five years and a clinical professor at Stanford.

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is an American cardiologist and evolutionary biologist, a UCLA professor and Harvard faculty member best known for coining "zoobiquity," and coauthor of the 2012 bestseller Zoobiquity.

Bernadine H. Bulkley

Bernadine H. Bulkley (Bernadine Healy, 1944–2011) was an American cardiologist who, as Bernadine P. Healy, became the first female director of the National Institutes of Health.

Bernard J. Gersh

Bernard J. Gersh (B.J. Gersh) is a South African-born cardiologist who has spent most of his career at the Mayo Clinic, studying atrial fibrillation and coronary disease.

Bertram Pitt

Bertram Pitt, born 1932 in New York, is an American cardiologist at the University of Michigan who led landmark heart failure trials including SOLVD, RALES, and EPHESUS.

Blasé A. Carabello

Blasé A. Carabello, also written Blase A. Carabello, is an American cardiologist specializing in valvular heart disease, known for his influential 1997 New England Journal of Medicine review.

Bo Lagerqvist

Bo Lagerqvist is a Swedish interventional cardiologist and researcher at Uppsala University Hospital, a principal investigator behind the SCAAR stent-safety analyses and the TASTE trial.

Bongani M. Mayosi

Bongani M. Mayosi, also known as Bongani Mayosi, was a South African cardiologist at the University of Cape Town who led research on tuberculous pericarditis and rheumatic heart disease.

Carey Coombs

Carey Franklin Coombs (1879–1932) was a British cardiologist at Bristol General Hospital who gave his name to the Carey Coombs murmur of rheumatic carditis and helped found the Cardiac Club.

Catherine M Otto

Catherine Otto is an American cardiologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, known for research establishing calcific aortic valve disease as an active disease process.

Charles A. Herzog

Charles A. Herzog, also known as Charles Herzog, is an American cardiologist at Hennepin County Medical Center who specializes in heart disease in dialysis patients and echocardiography.

Charles A. Sanders

Charles A. Sanders (born 1932) is an American cardiologist who was general director of Massachusetts General Hospital from 1972 to 1981 and later led Glaxo Inc.

Charles K. Friedberg

Charles K. Friedberg (1905–1972) was an American cardiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and author of the standard textbook Diseases of the Heart.

Christian Hassager

Christian Hassager is a Danish cardiologist and clinical professor at Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen who led the 2024 DanGer Shock trial of microaxial pumps in cardiogenic shock.

Christian Mueller

Christian Eugen Mueller is a Swiss cardiologist and professor at University Hospital Basel who led PRESC1SE-MI, a trial of over 62,000 patients across 19 hospitals in ten countries.

Daniel B. Kramer

Daniel B. Kramer is an American cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston who studies the safety, ethics, and regulation of implanted heart devices such as pacemakers.

Darren K. McGuire

Darren K. McGuire is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for leading major diabetes drug cardiovascular outcome trials.

David E. Newby

David E. Newby, also published as David Ernest Newby, is a British cardiologist at the University of Edinburgh who led the SCOT-HEART trial of CT coronary angiography.

David H. Spodick

David H. Spodick (1927–2019) was an American cardiologist who specialized in pericardial disease, cardiac tamponade, and electrocardiography, publishing over 400 papers and lending his name to Spodick's sign.

David K. Detweiler

David K. Detweiler (1919–2009) was an American veterinary cardiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, called the "Father of Veterinary Cardiology" and elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1974.

David Littmann

David Littmann (1906–1981) was an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who patented the lightweight two-sided Littmann stethoscope in 1966, sold by 3M from 1967.

Dean T. Mason

Dean T. Mason is an American cardiologist who founded the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at UC Davis in 1968 and served as president of the American College of Cardiology.

Dennis T. Mangano

Dennis T. Mangano is a physician-scientist in cardiovascular and perioperative medicine, a UCSF professor until 2010 best known for his 1996 NEJM trial of atenolol before noncardiac surgery.

Desmond G. Julian

Desmond G. Julian (1926–2019) was a British cardiologist whose 1961 Lancet paper first proposed coronary care units, and who established Europe's first such unit in Edinburgh in 1964.

Dickinson W. Richards

Dickinson W. Richards (1895–1973) was an American physiologist at Columbia University and Bellevue Hospital who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on heart catheterization.