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Oluf Pedersen (physician-scientist)

Oluf Pedersen, born 1945, is a Danish physician-scientist and professor at the University of Copenhagen known for the Steno-2 trial, which changed type 2 diabetes treatment worldwide, and for gut microbiome research.

Ormond A. MacDougald

Ormond A. MacDougald is a physiologist studying adipose tissue biology at the University of Michigan, where he holds the John A. Faulkner Collegiate Chair of Physiology.

Oskar Minkowski

Oskar Minkowski (1858–1931) was a German physician and internist who showed in 1889 that removing a dog's pancreas produces severe diabetes, the experimental starting point for the discovery of insulin.

Otávio Berwanger

Otávio Berwanger (Otavio Berwanger) is a Brazilian cardiologist and clinical trialist who became Executive Director of The George Institute UK in November 2022, holding a Chair in Clinical Trials at Imperial College London.

Otto M. Hess

Otto M. Hess (1946–2011) was a Swiss cardiologist who headed the cardiovascular department at the University Hospital of Bern and led trials of homocysteine-lowering therapy after angioplasty.

P. Reed Larsen

P. Reed Larsen (Philip Reed Larsen) is an American thyroid endocrinologist who leads the Thyroid Section at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.

Pablo García‐Pavía

Pablo García-Pavía is a Spanish cardiologist who leads the inherited cardiac diseases unit at Puerta de Hierro hospital in Madrid and researches transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.

Pamela S. Douglas

Pamela S. Douglas is an American cardiologist at Duke University, a past president of the American College of Cardiology, and leader of the REPRIEVE statin trial in HIV.

Paolo G. Camici

Paolo G. Camici is an Italian cardiologist and physician-scientist who characterized coronary microvascular dysfunction and hibernating myocardium, and is Professor of Cardiology at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan.

Paolo Golino

Paolo Golino is an Italian cardiologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Cardiology at the University of Campania and Chief of Cardiology at the Monaldi Hospital in Naples since 2018.

Paolo Spirito

Paolo Spirito is an Italian cardiologist at Policlinico di Monza known for research on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, including his landmark 2000 study linking wall thickness to sudden-death risk.

Pascal Geldsetzer

Pascal Geldsetzer is a physician-scientist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford whose 2025 Nature study found shingles vaccination reduced dementia diagnoses by about 20%.

Pascal J. Goldschmidt‐Clermont

Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont is a Belgian-trained cardiologist who led cardiology at Duke, directed Ohio State's Heart and Lung Research Institute, and was dean of the University of Miami's medical school from 2006 to 2016.

Patricia A. Pellikka

Patricia A. Pellikka is an American cardiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who chairs its cardiovascular ultrasound division and studies echocardiography in heart valve disease.

Patrick S. Kamath

Patrick S. Kamath is a transplant hepatologist and professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known as co-developer of the MELD score used worldwide for liver allocation.

Patrick T. O’Gara

Patrick T. O'Gara is an American cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for valvular and aortic heart disease and for chairing national cardiovascular guidelines.

Patrick W. Serruys

Patrick W. Serruys, also known as Patrick Serruys, is a Belgian interventional cardiologist who introduced coronary stenting in the Netherlands in 1986 and led the ABSORB bioresorbable scaffold program.

Patrik Rorsman

Patrik Rorsman, born in 1959, is a Swedish diabetes and islet physiologist who is Professor of Diabetic Medicine at Oxford and also a professor at the University of Gothenburg.

Paul A. Gurbel

Paul A. Gurbel is an American cardiologist and platelet researcher who directs the Sinai Center for Thrombosis Research in Baltimore and is known for identifying clopidogrel resistance.

Paul Dorian

Paul Dorian is a Canadian cardiac electrophysiologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and University of Toronto professor known for the 2002 ALIVE trial comparing amiodarone with lidocaine in cardiac arrest.

Paul J. Nestel

Paul J. Nestel was an Australian cardiologist-scientist, a founding father of lipid and lipoprotein research, who published 490 papers over five decades and died in 2026.

Paul K. Whelton

Paul K. Whelton (Paul Whelton) is an Irish-born American physician-scientist at Tulane University who led NIH trials including SPRINT and chaired the 2017 ACC/AHA guideline redefining high blood pressure.

Paul Khairy

Paul Khairy is a Canadian cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute, known for establishing arrhythmias in adult congenital heart disease as a subspecialty.

Paul L. Padfield

Paul L. Padfield is a physician-scientist known for hypertension research, from vasopressin studies at the MRC Blood Pressure Unit in Glasgow to home blood pressure monitoring in Edinburgh.

Paul M. Ridker

Paul M. Ridker is an American cardiovascular researcher, Eugene Braunwald Professor at Harvard Medical School, who established the role of inflammation in heart disease prevention and treatment.

Paul M. Stewart

Paul M. Stewart is a British endocrinologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Leeds, known for research on corticosteroid hormones, Cushing's syndrome, and hypertension.

Paul Muntner

Paul Muntner is an American cardiovascular epidemiologist known for blood pressure measurement and hypertension control, whose 2017 analysis estimated 103.3 million US adults had hypertension under the ACC/AHA guideline.

Paul N. Durrington

Paul N. Durrington, also known as Paul Durrington, is a British physician-scientist in lipid disorders who pioneered cascade family screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia and led the CARDS statin trial.

Paul N. Yu

Paul N. Yu, born Paul Nan-Gan Yu, was a Chinese-born American cardiologist who built the University of Rochester's cardiology unit and was American Heart Association president in 1972.

Paul W. Armstrong

Paul W. Armstrong is a Canadian cardiologist at the University of Alberta who led major acute cardiac care trials and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2017.