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Cardiovascular disease prevention researchers

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Bruce Neal

Bruce Neal is a UK-trained physician and clinical epidemiologist, Professor of Medicine at UNSW Sydney, who led the SSaSS salt-substitute trial in China and the CANVAS analyses of canagliflozin.

Charles H. Hennekens

Charles H. Hennekens is an American physician and epidemiologist whose randomized trials first demonstrated that aspirin prevents a first heart attack, making him among the most cited medical researchers.

Eric B. Rimm

Eric B. Rimm, also known as Eric Rimm, is an American epidemiologist and Harvard professor who studies how diet, alcohol, and lifestyle affect heart disease risk.

Frank M. Sacks

Frank M. Sacks is a Harvard professor of cardiovascular disease prevention who designed the DASH diet trial and led the OmniHeart, PoundsLost, and MIND trials.

Fredrick J. Stare

Fredrick J. Stare (1910–2002) was an American nutritionist and physician who founded and chaired Harvard's Department of Nutrition from 1942 to 1976, becoming a controversial figure in food-industry funding debates.

John W. Erdman Jr.

John W. Erdman Jr. is an American nutrition scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for research on soy protein, carotenoids, and Dietary Reference Intakes.

John W. McEvoy

John W. McEvoy, known as Bill McEvoy, is an Irish preventive cardiologist who is Established Professor of Preventive Cardiology at the University of Galway and chaired the 2024 ESC hypertension guidelines.

Kathryn A. Taubert

Kathryn A. Taubert is an American cardiovascular researcher who spent decades at the American Heart Association, coauthoring guidelines on infective endocarditis and rheumatic heart disease.

Nicholas Marston

Nicholas A. Marston is an American cardiologist and clinical investigator in the TIMI Study Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for olezarsen trials and genetic risk prediction.

Philip Greenland

Philip Greenland is an American cardiologist and epidemiologist, the Harry W. Dingman Professor of Cardiology at Northwestern University, known for coronary artery calcium scoring for heart disease risk prediction.

Roger S. Blumenthal

Roger S. Blumenthal is an American cardiologist who directs the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and co-chaired the 2019 ACC/AHA primary prevention guideline.

Salim Yusuf

Salim Yusuf is an Indian-born Canadian cardiologist and clinical trialist at McMaster University, founder of PHRI, whose trials of beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, and the polypill shaped global heart disease guidelines.

Samuel S. Gidding

Samuel S. Gidding is an American pediatric and preventive cardiologist known for familial hypercholesterolemia research, who chaired the American Heart Association's 2015 FH statement and joined Geisinger in 2020.

Sidney C. Smith

Sidney C. Smith is an American cardiologist at UNC Chapel Hill known for writing the ACC/AHA cardiovascular guidelines and a past president of the American Heart Association.

Stephen B. Hulley

Stephen B. Hulley, also known as Stephen Hulley, was an American physician-scientist at UCSF who led the HERS hormone therapy trial and wrote Designing Clinical Research.

Thomas A. Gaziano

Thomas A. Gaziano is an American cardiologist and health-decision scientist, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Chan School, who studies cost-effective cardiovascular disease prevention in developing countries.

Thomas A. Pearson

Thomas A. Pearson is an American cardiovascular epidemiologist, professor at the University of Florida since 2013, known for heart disease prevention research and national prevention guidelines.

William E. Kraus

William E. Kraus is an American preventive cardiologist at Duke University School of Medicine, a distinguished professor since 2017, best known for the STRRIDE trials of how exercise amount and intensity affect cardiometabolic risk.

William L. Haskell

William L. Haskell (born 1937) is an American exercise physiologist and preventive-cardiology researcher, emeritus professor at Stanford, who chaired the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee.