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L. Maximilian Buja
L. Maximilian Buja is an American cardiovascular pathologist known for research on platelet aggregation and thrombosis in unstable angina, and Dean Emeritus of McGovern Medical School.
Lars Køber
Lars Køber is a Danish cardiologist, Clinical Professor at the University of Copenhagen and based at Rigshospitalet, known for leading the landmark heart failure trials TRACE and DANISH.
Lars Lindholm
Lars Lindholm, also known as Lars H Lindholm, is a Swedish hypertension researcher and professor of general practice at Umeå University whose 2005 meta-analysis questioned beta blockers.
Lars Sjöström
Lars Sjöström is a Swedish physician-scientist, professor emeritus at the Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg, who founded the Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study in 1987, the first long-term controlled trial of bariatric surgery.
Lars Søndergaard
Lars Søndergaard is a Danish interventional cardiologist and professor of cardiology at the University of Copenhagen who heads structural heart intervention at Rigshospitalet and led the NOTION and REDUCE trials.
Lars Wallentin
Lars Wallentin is a Swedish cardiologist and professor emeritus at Uppsala University who led pivotal trials of antiplatelet and anticoagulant drugs, including PLATO and ARISTOTLE, and built the SWEDEHEART registry.
Lars Wilhelmsen
Lars Wilhelmsen (L. Wilhelmsen) was a Swedish cardiologist and epidemiologist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital who co-started the Men born in 1913 study and directed the Göteborg Multifactor Primary Prevention Trial.
Laura Mauri
Laura Mauri (L. Mauri) is an interventional cardiologist and clinical-trials researcher who led the DAPT Study and EVEREST II and is Medtronic's Chief Scientific and Medical Officer.
Laurence B. Ellis
Laurence B. Ellis was an American cardiologist at Boston City Hospital and Harvard Medical School who directed the follow-up of the closed mitral valvuloplasty series from 1948 to 1973.
Laurence H. Kyle
Laurence H. Kyle was an American endocrinologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., known for studies of thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal disease and body composition.
Laurie Goodyear
Laurie J. Goodyear is a metabolism researcher who heads Integrative Physiology and Metabolism at Joslin Diabetes Center and is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Lawrence A. Frohman
Lawrence A. Frohman (1935–2018) was an American neuroendocrinologist who defined hypothalamic control of growth hormone, isolated GHRH, and chaired medicine at the University of Illinois.
Lawrence J. Appel
Lawrence J. Appel is an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University whose research on diet and behavior treats hypertension, kidney disease, and obesity; he led the landmark 1997 DASH trial.
Lawrence Kazak
Lawrence Kazak is a Canadian researcher at McGill University's Goodman Cancer Institute who studies how fat cells generate heat, known for identifying a creatine-driven heat-producing pathway in thermogenic fat.
Lee Goldman
Lee Goldman is an American cardiologist and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, known for the Goldman Index, the Goldman Criteria, and the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model.
Lee M. Kaplan
Lee M. Kaplan is an American physician-scientist in obesity medicine who founded Massachusetts General Hospital's Weight Center and was 2019–2020 president of The Obesity Society.
Lee S. Weinstein
Lee S. Weinstein, also known as Lee Weinstein, is an American physician-scientist at NIH's NIDDK known for work on G protein genetics, genomic imprinting, and metabolic disease.
Leif Groop
Leif Groop, born in Finland in 1947, is a Finnish physician-scientist and professor emeritus at Lund University known for describing LADA and classifying adult-onset diabetes into five subtypes.
Lelio Orci
Lelio Orci (1937–2019) was an Italian-born cell biologist and endocrinologist at the University of Geneva, known for electron-microscopy studies of the islets of Langerhans and discovery of the COPI coat complex.
Lena Carlsson
Lena Carlsson is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor of clinical metabolic research at the University of Gothenburg who has led the Swedish Obese Subjects bariatric surgery study since 2005.
LEON HELLMAN
Leon Hellman was an American endocrinology researcher at Sloan-Kettering and Montefiore Hospital who showed that cortisol is secreted episodically and that luteinizing hormone secretion synchronizes with sleep during puberty.
Leon I. Goldberg
Leon I. Goldberg (1927–1989) was a cardiovascular pharmacologist and physician at Emory University who introduced dopamine for shock and congestive heart failure and characterized peripheral dopamine receptors.
Leonard D. Kohn
Leonard D. Kohn (1935–2012) was an American thyroid researcher who led a section at the NIH for 25 years, developed the FRTL-5 bioassay, and won the Ingbar Award.
Leonard Guarente
Leonard Guarente is an American molecular biologist and aging researcher, the Novartis Professor of Biology at MIT known for showing that sirtuins regulate aging through NAD, and a founder of Elysium Health.
Leonard J. Deftos
Leonard J. Deftos is an American endocrinologist and oncologist at the University of California, San Diego, known for establishing chromogranin A and calcitonin as blood markers of neuroendocrine tumors.
Leslee J. Shaw
Leslee J. Shaw is an American cardiac imaging researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for work on ischemic heart disease and sex differences.
Leslie A. Leinwand
Leslie A. Leinwand is an American molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for her 2011 discovery that python fatty acids drive heart growth.
Leslie J. De Groot
Leslie J. De Groot (1928–2018) was an American endocrinologist who led the University of Chicago's Thyroid Study Unit and was counted among the founders of modern thyroidology.
Leslie T. Cooper
Leslie T. Cooper is an American cardiologist who chairs cardiovascular medicine at Mayo Clinic in Florida and is known for defining the natural history and immunosuppressive treatment of myocarditis.
Lewis C. Becker
Lewis C. Becker is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who co-founded the GeneSTAR family heart study in 1982 and led research on platelet genetics.