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Ronald G. Victor

Ronald G. Victor, also known as Ronald Victor, was an American cardiologist and hypertension researcher whose barbershop trials brought blood pressure in Black men under control.

Sandra A. Daugherty

Sandra A. Daugherty was an American physician and epidemiologist who won the 1980 Lasker Award for hypertension research and taught at the University of Nevada.

Stephen Archer

Stephen L. Archer is a Canadian cardiologist and physician-scientist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, known for research on oxygen sensing and mitochondrial dynamics in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Stephen MacMahon

Stephen MacMahon (S MacMahon) is an Australian cardiovascular physician-scientist and epidemiologist known for large-scale blood pressure studies and for co-founding The George Institute in Sydney in 1999.

Stevo Julius

Stevo Julius (1929–2025) was a Croatian-born American physician-scientist who spent six decades at the University of Michigan, known for defining borderline hypertension and leading major hypertension trials.

Suzanne Oparil

Suzanne Oparil is an American cardiologist and hypertension researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who led the UAB center of the SPRINT blood-pressure trial.

Theodore W. Kurtz

Theodore W. Kurtz is a physician-scientist and Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on salt-dependent hypertension and rat genetics.

Thomas G. Pickering

Thomas G. Pickering was a British-born physician-scientist, professor at Columbia University, who coined white-coat and masked hypertension and made out-of-office blood-pressure measurement part of routine cardiovascular medicine.

Toshiro Fujita

Toshiro Fujita (藤田 敏郎) is a Japanese physician-scientist in nephrology and hypertension, known for work on salt-sensitive hypertension, the Rac1–mineralocorticoid receptor pathway, and the epigenetics of hypertension.

Urs Scherrer

Urs Scherrer is a Swiss cardiologist and professor at the University Hospital of Bern known for research on hypertension, hypoxia, and high-altitude pulmonary edema, including a 2002 salmeterol prevention trial.

Vallerie V. McLaughlin

Vallerie V. McLaughlin is an American cardiologist at the University of Michigan who directs its Pulmonary Hypertension Program and led major pulmonary arterial hypertension drug trials, including the 2025 sotatercept HYPERION study.

Vincent DeQuattro

Vincent DeQuattro (1933–2001) was an American cardiologist and hypertension researcher who led the hypertension service at LAC+USC Medical Center and taught at USC for 35 years.

William A. Pettinger

William A. Pettinger is an American cardiovascular pharmacologist who founded the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at UT Southwestern and shaped drug treatment of resistant hypertension.

William B. White

William B. White is an American cardiologist and professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, known for hypertension research and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.