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Robert J. Goldberg

Robert J. Goldberg is an American cardiovascular epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at UMass Chan Medical School, known for the Worcester Heart Attack Study and NEJM studies of cardiogenic shock.

S. Goya Wannamethee

S. Goya Wannamethee, also known as Goya Wannamethee, is a British cardiovascular epidemiologist, Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, and Study Director of the British Regional Heart Study since 1999.

Sadiya Khan

Sadiya Khan is an American preventive cardiologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for cardio-obstetrics and for chairing the American Heart Association working group behind the PREVENT risk equations.

Salim S. Hayek

Salim S. Hayek, also published as Salim Hayek, is a cardiologist whose research on suPAR and kidney injury led UTMB to name him Chair of Internal Medicine in 2025.

Sanjay Sharma (British cardiologist)

Sanjay Sharma is a British cardiologist, professor at St George's, University of London, who led the 2017 international ECG criteria for athletes and the CRY cardiac screening program.

Shah Ebrahim

Shah Ebrahim is a British clinical epidemiologist who studies heart disease and stroke, founded the British Women's Heart & Health Study, and co-edited the International Journal of Epidemiology.

Simin Liu

Simin Liu is a physician-scientist and epidemiologist known for large prospective studies of sex hormones and type 2 diabetes, now Distinguished Professor and chair at UC Irvine.

Simon Capewell

Simon Capewell is a British cardiovascular epidemiologist and the first Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Liverpool, appointed in 1999, known for the IMPACT model of coronary heart disease deaths.

Sonia S. Anand

Sonia S. Anand is a Canadian vascular medicine specialist and epidemiologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, known for the SHARE and INTERHEART studies of heart attack risk.

Susanna C. Larsson

Susanna C. Larsson, also published as Susanna Larsson, is a Swedish nutritional and cardiovascular epidemiologist and professor at Karolinska Institutet known for large cohort studies of diet and disease risk.

Thomas J. Wang

Thomas J. Wang is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher who became dean of the University of Michigan Medical School in 2025, known for Framingham biomarker research.

Thomas Meade (British epidemiologist)

Thomas Wilson Meade (1936–2022) was a British epidemiologist who directed the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit at Northwick Park and led the Northwick Park Heart Study.

Thomas R. Dawber

Thomas R. Dawber (1913–2005) was a Canadian-born American physician and epidemiologist who directed the Framingham Heart Study, which identified the major risk factors for coronary heart disease.

Valentı́n Fuster

Valentín Fuster, born 1943 in Barcelona, is a Spanish cardiologist who leads Mount Sinai's heart hospital in New York and the CNIC in Madrid, and led major cardiovascular prevention trials.

Véronique L. Roger

Véronique L. Roger is a cardiologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist who spent her career at Mayo Clinic before joining the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 2021.

Viola Vaccarino

Viola Vaccarino is an Italian-trained physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Emory University, known for studies of sex and racial differences in heart attack survival and mental stress-induced ischemia.

William B. Kannel

William B. Kannel was an American cardiovascular epidemiologist who directed the Framingham Heart Study from 1966 to 1979, popularized the term "risk factor," and published more than 600 medical articles.

William P. Castelli

William P. Castelli (1931–2025) was an American cardiovascular epidemiologist who directed the Framingham Heart Study from 1979 to 1995 and established HDL cholesterol as protective against coronary heart disease.

Wolfgang Köenig

Wolfgang Koenig is a German cardiologist and professor at the Technical University of Munich whose 1999 study showed C-reactive protein predicts coronary heart disease risk in initially healthy middle-aged men.

Xavier Jouven

Xavier Jouven is a French cardiologist and epidemiologist, head of cardiology at the Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou in Paris, known for research on sudden cardiac death.