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Roxana Mehran
Roxana Mehran is an interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for her bleeding and kidney-injury risk scores.
Roy G. Smith
Roy G. Smith is an American endocrinology and metabolism researcher known for discovering the growth hormone secretagogue receptor, the receptor for ghrelin, and held professorships at Baylor College of Medicine and Scripps Research.
Roy Taylor (diabetologist)
Roy Taylor is a British diabetologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Metabolism at Newcastle University, known for the DiRECT trial showing weight loss puts type 2 diabetes into remission.
Rudolph Leibel
Rudolph L. Leibel is an American physician-scientist at Columbia University whose work led to the cloning of the leptin gene and quantified how the body defends its weight.
Rury R. Holman
Rury R. Holman is a British diabetologist and Emeritus Professor of Diabetic Medicine at Oxford who designed the UKPDS trial and received the American Diabetes Association's 2024 Banting Medal.
Russell Ross
Russell Ross (1929–1999) was an American pathologist at the University of Washington who proposed in 1973 the response-to-injury hypothesis of atherosclerosis, recasting the disease as a response to arterial injury.
Ryozo Nagai
Ryozo Nagai (永井 良三), born 1949, is a Japanese cardiovascular physician-scientist known for identifying the transcription factor KLF5 and for leading the University of Tokyo's cardiovascular medicine department.
S. Goya Wannamethee
S. Goya Wannamethee, also known as Goya Wannamethee, is a British cardiovascular epidemiologist, Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, and Study Director of the British Regional Heart Study since 1999.
S.P. Allison
S.P. Allison, or Simon P. Allison, is a British physician-scientist in clinical nutrition and metabolism at Nottingham, known for his 1979 work using insulin to spare protein after injury.
Sadaf Farooqi
Sadaf Farooqi is a University of Cambridge clinician scientist known for discovering genetic causes of severe childhood obesity and showing the leptin-melanocortin pathway controls human appetite and body weight.
Sadiya Khan
Sadiya Khan is an American preventive cardiologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for cardio-obstetrics and for chairing the American Heart Association working group behind the PREVENT risk equations.
Salim S. Hayek
Salim S. Hayek, also published as Salim Hayek, is a cardiologist whose research on suPAR and kidney injury led UTMB to name him Chair of Internal Medicine in 2025.
Salim Yusuf
Salim Yusuf is an Indian-born Canadian cardiologist and clinical trialist at McMaster University, founder of PHRI, whose trials of beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, and the polypill shaped global heart disease guidelines.
Salvador Moncada
Salvador Moncada, born in Honduras in 1944, is a pharmacologist who discovered prostacyclin and thromboxane synthase and showed that endothelium-derived relaxing factor is nitric oxide.
Sami Viskin
Sami Viskin (Samuel Viskin) is an Israeli cardiologist and researcher on inherited arrhythmias at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and editor in chief of the journal Heart Rhythm since 2024.
Samir Kapadia
Samir Kapadia is an American interventional cardiologist who chairs cardiovascular medicine at Cleveland Clinic and led major trials of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, including PROTECTED TAVR.
Samuel A. Levine
Samuel A. Levine (1891–1966) was an American cardiologist and Harvard professor whose six-grade murmur scale, Levine sign, and early mobilization after heart attack remain part of medicine.
Samuel A. Wells
Samuel A. Wells is an American endocrine surgeon at the National Cancer Institute who pioneered prophylactic thyroidectomy for inherited RET mutations and led the ZETA trial of vandetanib.
Samuel Klein (physician)
Samuel Klein is an American physician and obesity researcher who directs the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, with more than 500 papers.
Samuel Refetoff
Samuel Refetoff is a Bulgarian-born, Belgian-raised physician-scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Chicago known for discovering resistance to thyroid hormone, called Refetoff syndrome, in 1967.
Samuel S. Gidding
Samuel S. Gidding is an American pediatric and preventive cardiologist known for familial hypercholesterolemia research, who chaired the American Heart Association's 2015 FH statement and joined Geisinger in 2020.
Sana M. Al‐Khatib
Sana M. Al-Khatib is a Professor of Medicine at Duke University and clinical cardiac electrophysiologist known for research on implantable defibrillators and for chairing the 2017 AHA/ACC/HRS sudden cardiac death guideline.
Sandra A. Daugherty
Sandra A. Daugherty was an American physician and epidemiologist who won the 1980 Lasker Award for hypertension research and taught at the University of Nevada.
Sanjay Rajagopalan
Sanjay Rajagopalan is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist whose studies helped establish air pollution as a major preventable cardiovascular risk factor in national and international guidelines.
Sanjay Sharma (British cardiologist)
Sanjay Sharma is a British cardiologist, professor at St George's, University of London, who led the 2017 international ECG criteria for athletes and the CRY cardiac screening program.
Sanjit S. Jolly
Sanjit S. Jolly is an interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who led the TOTAL trial of thrombectomy and the RIVAL trial of radial versus femoral access.
Scott D. Solomon
Scott D. Solomon is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for leading the PARAGON-HF, DELIVER, and FINEARTS-HF heart failure trials.
Scott M. Grundy
Scott M. Grundy (1933–2025) was an American physician-scientist in cholesterol and lipoprotein metabolism who founded the Center for Human Nutrition at UT Southwestern in Dallas.
Sean M. Wu
Sean M. Wu, also published as Sean Wu, is a physician-scientist, cardiologist, and tenured Stanford professor known for work on cardiac progenitor cells and heart regeneration.
Sean Wharton
Sean Wharton is a Canadian internal-medicine physician and researcher in weight management and diabetes, lead investigator of the 2025 ATTAIN-1 orforglipron trial and first author of the 2020 Canadian adult obesity guideline.