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David D. Waters

David D. Waters is a Canadian-born cardiologist known for clinical trials of lipid-lowering therapy and as former Chief of Cardiology at San Francisco General Hospital.

David E. Cummings

David E. Cummings is an American endocrinologist and University of Washington professor who established ghrelin's role in mealtime hunger and helped create metabolic surgery for diabetes.

David E. Newby

David E. Newby, also published as David Ernest Newby, is a British cardiologist at the University of Edinburgh who led the SCOT-HEART trial of CT coronary angiography.

David Erlinge

David Erlinge (D Erlinge) is a Swedish cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology at Lund University, and head of cardiology at Skåne University Hospital, known for leading major coronary trials.

David Feldman (American endocrinologist)

David Feldman is an American endocrinologist and Stanford professor emeritus known for showing in 1984 that the anesthetic etomidate blocks adrenal steroidogenesis, and for vitamin D receptor research.

David G. Harrison

David G. Harrison is an American cardiologist and pharmacologist at Vanderbilt University known for showing that T cells drive hypertension and that oxidative stress impairs blood vessel function.

David H. Spodick

David H. Spodick (1927–2019) was an American cardiologist who specialized in pericardial disease, cardiac tamponade, and electrocardiography, publishing over 400 papers and lending his name to Spodick's sign.

David Hurwitz (endocrinologist)

David Hurwitz was an American endocrinologist who chaired medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital and whose placebo-controlled studies of the first oral diabetes drugs, published in 1961 and 1967, remain methodological standards.

David J. Cohen

David J. Cohen is an American interventional cardiologist and outcomes researcher, Director of Clinical and Outcomes Research at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York.

David J. Mangelsdorf

David J. Mangelsdorf (1958–2025) was an American molecular biologist and pharmacologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who discovered the retinoid X receptor and characterized orphan nuclear receptors regulating metabolism.

David J. Pinsky

David J. Pinsky is an American physician-scientist and cardiologist who has led cardiovascular medicine at the University of Michigan since 2003, studying protection against ischemic injury.

David K. Detweiler

David K. Detweiler (1919–2009) was an American veterinary cardiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, called the "Father of Veterinary Cardiology" and elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1974.

David Kipnis

David M. Kipnis (1927–2014) was an American endocrinologist at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1967 quantification of the incretin effect underlies GLP-1 diabetes drugs.

David Littmann

David Littmann (1906–1981) was an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who patented the lightweight two-sided Littmann stethoscope in 1966, sold by 3M from 1967.

David M. Herrington

David M. Herrington is an American cardiologist and professor of cardiovascular medicine and epidemiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, known for the 2000 ERA hormone-therapy trial.

David M. Nathan

David M. Nathan is an American endocrinologist who directed the Clinical Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and led the DCCT and Diabetes Prevention Program trials.

David Marine

David Marine (1880–1976) was an American pathologist whose animal experiments and Akron, Ohio school-based iodine trial showed iodine prevents simple goiter, the finding behind iodized table salt.

David N. Orth

David N. Orth, born 1933, is an American endocrinologist who directed Vanderbilt's endocrinology division from 1968 to 1997, trained under Grant Liddle, and served as president of the Endocrine Society.

David P. Faxon

David P. Faxon is an American interventional cardiologist, a Senior Scholar at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and President of the American Heart Association in 2001.

David P. Lauler

David P. Lauler is an American endocrinologist at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studied aldosterone secretion in hypertension and primary aldosteronism, publishing from 1962 to 1976.

David R. Clemmons

David R. Clemmons was an American endocrinologist and Sarah Graham Kenan Professor at UNC Chapel Hill who made IGF-I the standard diagnostic test for acromegaly.

David R. Fraser

David R. Fraser is a New Zealand-born nutritional biochemist and veterinarian known for co-discovering that the kidney makes 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, vitamin D's active hormone form.

David R. Matthews

David R. Matthews, born in 1947, is a British physician-scientist at Oxford, Emeritus Professor of Diabetes Medicine, founding chairman of OCDEM, and co-chair of the CANVAS trial.

David R. Owens

David R. Owens is a British diabetes researcher, clinical lead for diabetes-related retinopathy at Swansea University Medical School, and author of the 2001 Lancet review "Insulins today and beyond".

David S. Celermajer

David S. Celermajer is an Australian cardiologist and Scandrett Professor of Cardiology at the University of Sydney, known for developing a non-invasive ultrasound technique for measuring arterial endothelial function and leading Australia's congenital heart disease registry.

David S. Cooper

David S. Cooper is an American thyroid endocrinologist, a Johns Hopkins professor for more than 30 years, known for work on Graves' disease, subclinical thyroid disease, and thyroid cancer guidelines.

David S. Ludwig

David S. Ludwig is an American endocrinologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard known for research on sugary drinks and the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity.

David S. Siscovick

David S. Siscovick is an American physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for research on sudden cardiac death and exercise.

David W. Russell

David W. Russell is an American molecular geneticist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who defined the pathways by which the body breaks down cholesterol into bile acids and steroid hormones.

Dean H. Lockwood

Dean H. Lockwood (1937–2004) was an American physician-scientist in endocrinology who led the Endocrine and Metabolism Unit at the University of Rochester and warned of liquid protein diet dangers.