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Raymond L. Hintz

Raymond L. Hintz was an American pediatric endocrinologist who founded and led Stanford's Division of Pediatric Endocrinology from 1975, published over 350 papers on growth, and died in 2014.

Rebecca T. Hahn

Rebecca T. Hahn is a cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, known for interventional echocardiography and for leading the TRISCEND II trial of transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement.

Reginald Hall

Reginald Hall (1931–1994) was a British physician-scientist in endocrinology who built thyroid research units in Newcastle upon Tyne and Cardiff and published over 400 papers.

Reinoud E. Knops

Reinoud E. Knops (born 1971) is a Dutch cardiologist and professor of clinical electrophysiology at Amsterdam UMC, who led the PRAETORIAN trial of subcutaneous defibrillators.

Rena R. Wing

Rena R. Wing is a researcher in the behavioral treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes, professor at Brown University and co-founder of the National Weight Control Registry.

Renato D. Lópes

Renato D. Lópes (Renato Delascio Lopes) is a Brazilian-born cardiologist and clinical researcher, Professor of Medicine at Duke University and a Duke Clinical Research Institute member.

Renu Virmani

Renu Virmani is a cardiovascular pathologist known for describing the vulnerable plaque and the autopsy pathology of drug-eluting stents; she founded the CVPath Institute in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in 2005.

Rex N. MacAlpin

Rex MacAlpin is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at UCLA in Los Angeles known for defining variant angina and studying coronary arterial spasm and exercise testing.

Richard A. Cohen

Richard A. Cohen is an American physician-scientist in vascular physiology and redox biology, Emeritus Professor of Vascular Biology at Boston University, known for work on nitric oxide, the endothelium, and SERCA.

Richard A. Lange

Richard A. Lange is an American cardiologist and president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso since 2014, formerly chief of cardiology at Johns Hopkins.

Richard B. Devereux

Richard B. Devereux is an American cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College whose echocardiography research transformed assessment of hypertensive heart disease.

Richard E. Kuntz

Richard E. Kuntz is an American interventional cardiologist known for large coronary stenting trials, who founded the Harvard Clinical Research Institute and spent 15 years at Medtronic.

Richard Gorlin

Richard Gorlin was an American cardiologist who devised the Gorlin formula, still the standard for measuring stenotic heart valves, and chaired medicine at Mount Sinai from 1974 to 1992.

Richard H. Goodman

Richard H. Goodman is an American physician-scientist who co-discovered the hormone GLP-1, identified the coactivator CBP, and directed the Vollum Institute at OHSU from 1990 to 2016.

Richard H. Helfant

Richard H. Helfant is an American cardiologist known for his 1971 study of the coronary collateral circulation and a nitroglycerin ventriculography technique used before bypass surgery.

Richard H. Karas

Richard H. Karas is a Boston-based cardiologist and physician-scientist at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for reviews on estrogen's cardiovascular effects and statin-associated muscle injury.

Richard J. Cohen

Richard J. Cohen is an American physician-scientist in cardiac electrophysiology and biomedical engineering who joined the MIT faculty in 1979 and developed the microvolt T-wave alternans test for sudden cardiac death risk.

Richard J. Havel

Richard J. Havel (1925–2016) was an American physician and lipoprotein researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who developed the standard method for measuring plasma lipoproteins and directed its Cardiovascular Research Institute.

Richard L. Moss

Richard L. Moss is an American cardiac physiologist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying how calcium and mechanical stretch regulate contraction in heart and skeletal muscle.

Richard L. Popp

Richard L. Popp is an American cardiologist and Stanford emeritus professor who developed echocardiography into routine cardiac diagnosis, published over 300 papers, and served as president of the American College of Cardiology.

Richard M. Bergenstal

Richard M. Bergenstal is an American endocrinologist and Medical Director of the International Diabetes Center in Minneapolis, known for standardizing continuous glucose monitoring through the Ambulatory Glucose Profile.

Richard N. Bergman

Richard N. Bergman is an American biomedical engineer and physiologist known for the minimal model of glucose regulation and the disposition index, key tools of diabetes research.

Richard O. Cannon

Richard O. Cannon III (born 1950) is an American cardiologist who spent forty years at the National Institutes of Health, leading a 1994 trial showing imipramine relieved chest pain.

Richard R. Liberthson

Richard R. Liberthson is an American cardiologist known for work on sudden cardiac death and for founding the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Rick A. Nishimura

Rick A. Nishimura, born in Chicago in 1953, is an American cardiologist at Mayo Clinic known for valvular heart disease and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and for chairing the national guidelines on valvular heart disease.

Robert A. Bruce

Robert A. Bruce was an American cardiologist at the University of Washington who created the multistage treadmill test known as the Bruce protocol, and is called the father of exercise cardiology.

Robert A. Byrne

Robert A. Byrne is an Irish interventional cardiologist at Mater Private, Dublin, known for research on why coronary stents fail and for chairing the 2023 ESC acute coronary syndrome guidelines.

Robert A. Harrington

Robert A. Harrington is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist, dean of Weill Cornell Medicine since 2023, who previously chaired medicine at Stanford and directed the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

Robert A. Hegele

Robert A. Hegele is a Canadian endocrinologist and human geneticist at Western University in London, Ontario, known for discovering the genetic basis of many cholesterol and triglyceride disorders.

Robert A. Kloner

Robert A. Kloner is an American cardiologist and experimental pathologist, Chief Science Officer at Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, known for defining myocardial stunning and the no-reflow phenomenon.