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Alastair J. Wood
Alastair J. Wood is a Scottish-born clinical pharmacologist, professor of medicine and pharmacology at Vanderbilt University and drug therapy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Alberto Zanchetti
Alberto Zanchetti (1926–2018) was an Italian physician-scientist at the University of Milan who led landmark hypertension trials, including the Syst-Eur trial, and edited the Journal of Hypertension.
Alvin P. Shapiro
Alvin P. Shapiro (born 1920) was an American physician and hypertension researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who studied how stress affects blood pressure.
Aram V. Chobanian
Aram V. Chobanian (1929–2023) was an American cardiologist and hypertension researcher who established the link between high blood pressure and accelerated vascular disease, and chaired the 2003 JNC 7 guideline.
Bryan Williams (physician-scientist)
Bryan Williams is a British physician-scientist researching hypertension. He became Chair of Medicine at University College London in 2012 and the British Heart Foundation's first Chief Scientific and Medical Officer in 2023.
Clara K Chow
Clara K Chow is an Australian cardiologist and clinical trialist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, best known for leading the quadpill hypertension trials.
Curt D. Sigmund
Curt D. Sigmund is an American cardiovascular physiologist who studies how the renin-angiotensin system and PPARγ regulate blood pressure, chairing Physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
David A. McCarron
David A. McCarron is an American nephrologist and hypertension researcher who headed nephrology at Oregon Health & Science University and proposed in 1982 that low dietary calcium, not sodium, drives high blood pressure.
David Cushman
David W. Cushman was an American biochemist at the E.R. Squibb Institute who, with Miguel Ondetti, co-discovered captopril, the first orally active ACE inhibitor drug.
Derek Denton
Derek Denton (1924–2022) was an Australian research physiologist, founding director of the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne, whose sheep and chimpanzee studies established salt appetite as innate and linked salt intake to blood pressure.
Edward D. Freis
Edward D. Freis (1912–2005) was an American cardiologist at the Veterans Administration and Georgetown University who led the landmark VA trial proving antihypertensive drug treatment saves lives.
Edward D. Fröhlich
Edward D. Fröhlich (published as Edward D. Frohlich) was an American physician-scientist in hypertension who spent over 40 years at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans.
Emmanuel L. Bravo
Emmanuel L. Bravo is an endocrinologist and nephrologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, known for his research on endocrine hypertension and the clonidine-suppression test for pheochromocytoma.
Eoin O'Brien
Eoin OʼBrien, born in Dublin in 1939, is an Irish cardiologist and hypertension researcher who established 24-hour ambulatory blood-pressure monitoring, holding professorships at RCSI and University College Dublin.
Eric A. Espiner
Eric A. Espiner is a New Zealand endocrinologist and Emeritus Professor at the Christchurch Heart Institute, University of Otago, known for research on aldosterone and the natriuretic peptides.
Francesco P. Cappuccio
Francesco P. Cappuccio is a British-based Italian physician-scientist at the University of Warwick, known for research on dietary salt, blood pressure, and sleep as a cardiovascular risk factor.
Frank A. Finnerty
Frank A. Finnerty, Jr. (1924–2011) was an American physician-scientist in cardiology based in Washington, D.C., who studied hypertension and its drug treatment and the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
Franz H. Messerli
Franz H. Messerli, born 1942, is a Swiss-born cardiologist and hypertension researcher who led hypertension programs in New Orleans and New York and argued against beta-blockers as first-line therapy.
Fritz R. Bühler
Fritz R. Bühler (1940–2017) was a Swiss cardiologist and hypertension researcher who built the hypertension division at University Hospital Basel and helped match blood-pressure drugs to patients.
George Pickering (British physician)
Sir George White Pickering (1904–1980) was a British physician who showed that high blood pressure is the upper end of a continuous distribution, not a distinct disease.
Giuseppe Mancia
Giuseppe Mancia is an Italian hypertension researcher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Milano-Bicocca, who chaired the ESH/ESC hypertension guidelines and edited the Journal of Hypertension.
Graham A. MacGregor
Graham A. MacGregor, also known as G A MacGregor, was a British professor of cardiovascular medicine who founded Action on Salt and drove the UK's national salt-reduction program.
Hans R. Brunner
Hans R. Brunner, born 1937, is a Swiss physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Lausanne known for renin research and early ACE inhibitor testing.
Haralambos Gavras
Haralambos Gavras is a Greek-born physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Boston University, known for introducing ACE inhibition and angiotensin II blockade for hypertension.
Harriet P. Dustan
Harriet P. Dustan, also known as Harriet Dustan, was an American internist and hypertension researcher who helped make high blood pressure a treatable disease, and who served as president of the American Heart Association.
Harry Goldblatt
Harry Goldblatt (1891–1977) was an American pathologist whose 1934 experiment producing persistent high blood pressure in dogs by clamping the renal arteries created the first animal model of hypertension.
Heimo Ehmke
Heimo Ehmke is a German physician and physiologist at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, where he directs the Institute of Cellular and Integrative Physiology and studies hypertension and cardiac arrhythmias.
Irvine H. Page
Irvine H. Page was an American physician and physiologist who pioneered hypertension research, co-discovered serotonin and angiotensin, proposed the mosaic theory, and directed research at the Cleveland Clinic.
Jack Orloff
Jack Orloff was an American kidney physiologist at NIH who showed how antidiuretic hormone acts through cyclic AMP and led NHLBI research from 1974 to 1988.
Jacques Genest
Jacques Genest (1919–2018) was a Canadian physician and hypertension researcher who founded and directed the Montreal Clinical Research Institute, and whose work on the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system helped establish the hormonal basis of high blood pressure.