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Peter Sleight
Peter Sleight (1929–2020) was a British cardiologist, the first Field-Marshal Alexander Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Oxford, who chaired the ISIS trials recruiting about 140,000 patients.
Philip Mease
Philip J. Mease is an American rheumatologist, clinical professor at the University of Washington and director of rheumatology research at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
Philippe Pîbarot
Philippe Pibarot is a Canadian cardiovascular researcher, professor at Université Laval, and Canada Research Chair in Cardiac Valvular Diseases, known for work on aortic stenosis and prosthetic heart valves.
Rainer Hambrecht
Rainer Hambrecht (born 1961) is a German cardiologist who directs cardiology at Klinikum Links der Weser, Bremen, and led trials showing exercise training restores endothelial function.
Richard A. Lange
Richard A. Lange is an American cardiologist and president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso since 2014, formerly chief of cardiology at Johns Hopkins.
Richard Gorlin
Richard Gorlin was an American cardiologist who devised the Gorlin formula, still the standard for measuring stenotic heart valves, and chaired medicine at Mount Sinai from 1974 to 1992.
Richard H. Helfant
Richard H. Helfant is an American cardiologist known for his 1971 study of the coronary collateral circulation and a nitroglycerin ventriculography technique used before bypass surgery.
Richard O. Cannon
Richard O. Cannon III (born 1950) is an American cardiologist who spent forty years at the National Institutes of Health, leading a 1994 trial showing imipramine relieved chest pain.
Rick A. Nishimura
Rick A. Nishimura, born in Chicago in 1953, is an American cardiologist at Mayo Clinic known for valvular heart disease and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and for chairing the national guidelines on valvular heart disease.
Robert A. Harrington
Robert A. Harrington is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist, dean of Weill Cornell Medicine since 2023, who previously chaired medicine at Stanford and directed the Duke Clinical Research Institute.
Robert A. O’Rourke
Robert A. O'Rourke (1936–2011) was an American cardiologist who spent over 30 years at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and edited Hurst's The Heart.
Robert B. Case
Robert B. Case is an American cardiologist at St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University, known for the 1992 JAMA study on living alone after myocardial infarction.
Robert O. Bonow
Robert O. Bonow is an American cardiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, a past president of the American Heart Association and founding editor of JAMA Cardiology.
Roberto Ferrari (Italian cardiologist)
Roberto Ferrari is an Italian cardiologist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Ferrara, known for leading large trials of ivabradine and trimetazidine and for leading the European Society of Cardiology.
Samuel A. Levine
Samuel A. Levine (1891–1966) was an American cardiologist and Harvard professor whose six-grade murmur scale, Levine sign, and early mobilization after heart attack remain part of medicine.
Scott D. Solomon
Scott D. Solomon is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for leading the PARAGON-HF, DELIVER, and FINEARTS-HF heart failure trials.
Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola
Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola (1931–2018) was a cardiologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California who coined the concepts of hibernating myocardium and prosthesis-patient mismatch, reshaping cardiovascular practice.
Subodh Verma
Subodh Verma is a Canadian cardiac surgeon-scientist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and a University of Toronto professor known for leadership in global heart failure and semaglutide trials.
Thomas F. Lüscher
Thomas F. Lüscher is a Swiss cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher known for work on the endothelium and Takotsubo syndrome, and President of the European Society of Cardiology since 2024.
Thomas J. Ryan
Thomas J. Ryan (1928–2020) was an American cardiologist at Boston University who led the Coronary Artery Surgery Study and served as American Heart Association president.
Thomas Lewis (cardiologist)
Sir Thomas Lewis (1881–1945) was a Welsh-born British cardiologist who brought the electrocardiograph to the bedside, advanced the study of atrial fibrillation, and founded the journal Heart.
Todd T. Schlegel
Todd T. Schlegel is a physician-scientist who served as Senior Scientist Medical Officer at NASA Johnson Space Center from 1992 to 2013, developing advanced ECG techniques for detecting heart disease.
Werner G. Daniel
Werner G. Daniel (1947, Coburg – died before 2025) was a German cardiologist who held the internal medicine chair at Erlangen from 1997 to 2012, pioneered transesophageal echocardiography, and received the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 2020.
Wilbert S. Aronow
Wilbert S. Aronow is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College and Director of Cardiology Research at Westchester Medical Center, known for 1970s angina studies.
William B. Hood
William B. Hood, Jr. is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher who trained at Harvard and worked at Boston City Hospital and the University of Rochester.
Yevgeniy Chazov
Yevgeniy Ivanovich Chazov (Евгений Иванович Чазов) was a Soviet and Russian cardiologist who performed the first intracoronary thrombolysis and shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.