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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.

Graham Steell

Graham Steell (1851–1942) was a British physician and cardiologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary, regarded as the leading heart-disease consultant in northern England; the Graham Steell murmur is named for him.

Grant W. Liddle

Grant W. Liddle (1921–1989) was an American endocrinologist at Vanderbilt University whose work defined the modern diagnosis of adrenal gland disorders; Liddle's syndrome, a hereditary hypertension, is named for him.

Gregg W. Stone

Gregg W. Stone is an American interventional cardiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for leading the COAPT and ISCHEMIA trials.

Gregory A. Brent

Gregory A. Brent is an American endocrinologist at UCLA who studies thyroid hormone action and wrote widely cited New England Journal of Medicine reviews on thyroid disease.

Gregory A. Roth

Gregory A. Roth is an American cardiologist and professor at the University of Washington who leads cardiovascular disease modeling for IHME's Global Burden of Disease Study.

Gregory D. Lewis

Gregory D. Lewis is an American cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he heads the heart failure section and directs the heart transplant program and cardiopulmonary exercise testing laboratory.

Gregory G. Schwartz

Gregory G. Schwartz is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado and Chief of Cardiology at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora.

Gregory Steinberg

Gregory R. Steinberg is a Canadian metabolism researcher and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, co-directing its metabolism research center and known for work on AMPK and metformin.

Guenther Boden

Guenther Boden (1935–2015) was a German-born endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at Temple University who first showed that elevated blood fatty acids interfere with insulin's action.

Guillaume Paré

Guillaume Paré is a Canadian physician-scientist and Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University, known for his 2010 study of CYP2C19 genotype and clopidogrel.

Guillermo E. Umpierrez

Guillermo E. Umpierrez is an American endocrinologist, professor of medicine at Emory University, and chief of diabetes and endocrinology at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

Günter Breithardt

Günter Breithardt, born 1944 in Haan, is a German cardiologist, professor emeritus at Münster, former European Society of Cardiology president, and co-founder of AFNET, which he chaired from 2003 to 2015.

Guo‐Ping Shi

Guo-Ping Shi is a principal investigator in cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for Nature Medicine papers showing mast cells promote atherosclerosis.

Gust H. Bardy

Gust H. Bardy is a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Clinical Professor at the University of Washington, known for the SCD-HeFT trial and the subcutaneous implantable defibrillator.

Gustav Schonfeld

Gustav Schonfeld (1934–2011) was a Czechoslovakia-born American physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, internationally known for research on apolipoprotein B, cholesterol, and heart disease prevention.

Guy A. Rutter

Guy A. Rutter is a diabetes researcher and biochemist who studies pancreatic beta cells and insulin secretion, and heads the Cardiometabolic research theme at CRCHUM in Montreal.

H. Bryan Brewer

H. Bryan Brewer is an American lipidologist who established the first published sequences of the human apolipoproteins, defined their metabolism, and identified gene defects behind inherited lipid disorders.

Hakan Oral

Hakan Oral is a Turkish-trained cardiac electrophysiologist and professor at the University of Michigan whose trials on pulmonary-vein ablation helped make catheter ablation standard treatment for atrial fibrillation.

Hannah Augusta Valantine

Hannah Augusta Valantine is a London-trained transplant cardiologist and Stanford professor who co-invented a blood test for heart transplant rejection and became the inaugural NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity.

Hannele Yki‐Järvinen

Hannele Yki-Järvinen is a Finnish professor of medicine at the University of Helsinki known for research linking liver fat to insulin resistance and insulin treatment in type 2 diabetes.

Hans Christian Hagedorn

Hans Christian Hagedorn (1888–1971) was a Danish physician who co-founded Danish insulin production in 1923 and invented protamine insulin, the principle behind NPH insulin, still the most used intermediate-acting insulin.

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.

Hans Selye

Hans Selye (1907-1982), Austrian-born Canadian endocrinologist, father of stress research; proposed the 1936 general adaptation syndrome (alarm, resistance, exhaustion), named stress and glucocorticoids, wrote 39 books, never won the Nobel Prize.

Hans Wedel

Hans Wedel (born 1940) was a Swedish cardiologist and biostatistician in Gothenburg, professor at the Nordic School of Public Health, known for the 4S and SOS trials.

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.

Harald Jüppner

Harald Jüppner is a German-trained pediatric nephrologist and endocrine researcher who is Chief of Pediatric Nephrology at MassGeneral Hospital for Children and a Harvard Medical School professor.

Harold E. Lebovitz

Harold E. Lebovitz is an American endocrinologist and diabetologist, a longtime Professor of Medicine at SUNY Downstate known for research on hormone resistance and diabetes.

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.

Harriette Chick

Harriette Chick (1875–1977) was a British microbiologist and nutritionist who proved rickets was a deficiency disease through controlled feeding trials in Vienna, and a founder of nutrition science.