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Lewis Dexter
Lewis Dexter (1910–1995) was an American cardiologist at Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital who first catheterized the pulmonary artery, in 1944, defining hemodynamics of congenital heart disease.
Lewis E. Braverman
Lewis E. Braverman (1929–2019) was an American endocrinologist and thyroid researcher at Boston University School of Medicine who demonstrated in 1970 that thyroxine is converted to triiodothyronine in humans.
Lewis K. Dahl
Lewis K. Dahl was an American internist and hypertension researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory who demonstrated that dietary salt raises blood pressure and that susceptibility depends on genetic background.
Lewis Landsberg
Lewis Landsberg (1938–2021) was an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and metabolism whose research showed that diet regulates the sympathetic nervous system, linking obesity to high blood pressure.
Liangyou Rui
Liangyou Rui is a molecular physiologist at the University of Michigan Medical School known for research on SH2B1 and NIK signaling in obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver disease.
Lionel H. Opie
Lionel H. Opie (L. H. Opie) was a South African cardiologist at the University of Cape Town who showed how beta-blockers protect the heart during a heart attack.
Loren J. Field
Loren J. Field is an American molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Indiana University School of Medicine, known for research on regenerative growth of the heart.
Louis Gallavardin
Louis Gallavardin (1875–1957) was a French physician and cardiologist of Lyon, among the first in Europe to devote himself entirely to cardiology, publishing about 360 papers.
Louis M. Sherwood
Louis M. Sherwood was an American endocrinologist whose laboratory work showed that blood calcium directly controls parathyroid hormone secretion, and who later held senior roles at Merck.
Louis V. Avioli
Louis V. Avioli was an American endocrinologist at Washington University who pioneered vitamin D research and founded the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
Louis Wolff
Louis Wolff (1898–1972) was an American cardiologist in Boston who co-described Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome in 1930, led Beth Israel Hospital's electrocardiography laboratory from 1928 to 1964, and advanced spatial vectorcardiography.
Louise Pilote
Louise Pilote is a Canadian general internist and clinical epidemiologist, a McGill professor and Deputy Director of the RI-MUHC, known for research on sex and gender differences in cardiovascular disease.
Lu Qi (nutritional genetic epidemiologist)
Lu Qi (吕奇) is a nutritional genetic epidemiologist who leads the Tulane University Obesity Research Center and studies how genes and diet interact to shape obesity and diabetes risk.
Luca Scorrano
Luca Scorrano, born 1971 in Padua, is an Italian physician-scientist and Full Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Padua, known for work on OPA1 and mitochondrial cristae.
Luciano Rossetti
Luciano Rossetti is a physician-scientist known for showing how the hypothalamus senses glucose and fatty acids to regulate glucose production and food intake, later Merck KGaA's R&D head.
Lucy Wills
Lucy Wills (1888–1964), English hematologist, discovered the "Wills factor" in yeast extract (Marmite) that cures macrocytic anemia of pregnancy, identified in Bombay cotton mill workers 1928–1933; the factor was later recognized as folic acid.
Luigi Bartalena
Luigi Bartalena is an Italian physician-scientist in endocrinology, Emeritus Professor at the University of Insubria in Varese, known for randomized trials of Graves' hyperthyroidism treatment and its eye complications.
Luigi Tavazzi
Luigi Tavazzi, born in Cremona, Italy in 1939, is an Italian cardiologist known for the heart-failure trials CARE-HF and SHIFT and for heading cardiology at Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia.
Lyal Watson
Lyal Watson (1927–2015) was an Australian-born physician and endocrinologist who spent his career at University College Hospital, London, devising the hydrocortisone suppression test for diagnosing hypercalcaemia.
Lynne W. Stevenson
Lynne W. Stevenson, or Lynne Warner Stevenson, is an American cardiologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center known for the wet-dry:warm-cold heart failure profiles and INTERMACS registry leadership.
Lytt I. Gardner
Lytt I. Gardner (Lytt Irvine Gardner, 1917–1986) was an American pediatric endocrinologist and SUNY Upstate professor whose 1950 study ended infant formula tetany; he won the 1961 E. Mead Johnson Award.
M. Alan Permutt
M. Alan Permutt, full name Marshall Alan Permutt (1939–2012), was an American physician and diabetes geneticist at Washington University in St. Louis who led the identification of the first type 2 diabetes gene.
M. R. C. Greenwood
M. R. C. Greenwood, born 1943, is an American physiologist and nutrition scientist known for obesity research who served as president of the University of Hawaii from 2009 to 2013.
Maarten A.D.H. Schalekamp
Maarten A.D.H. Schalekamp is a Dutch cardiovascular researcher, professor emeritus at Erasmus University Rotterdam, known for work on inactive renin, essential hypertension, and the DRASTIC trial.
Maarten L. Simoons
Maarten L. Simoons is a Dutch cardiologist and emeritus professor at the Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, who led trials comparing thrombolysis with primary angioplasty in acute coronary syndromes.
Macrae F. Linton
Macrae F. Linton is a Vanderbilt University Medical Center physician-scientist studying macrophage cholesterol metabolism in atherosclerosis, and a 1997 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award.
Mads Tang-Christensen
Mads Tang-Christensen is a Danish physician-scientist who helped establish GLP-1 as a brain-mediated satiety signal, then spent over 15 years at Novo Nordisk developing obesity drugs like liraglutide.
Maike Sander
Maike Sander is a German-born physician-scientist who has led the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin since 2022 and researches pancreatic beta cell development and diabetes.
Malcolm Carruthers
Malcolm Carruthers (born 1938) is a London physician and chemical pathologist who studied stress, catecholamines, and heart disease, known for the 1969 Lancet paper "Aggression and Atheroma".
Manesh R. Patel
Manesh R. Patel is an American interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist who serves as Chief of Cardiology at Duke University School of Medicine and led the ROCKET AF and EUCLID trials.