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Researchers in cardiovascular, metabolic, and endocrine research

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Seung K. Kim

Seung K. Kim is a Stanford physician-scientist and KM Mulberry Professor who studies how insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells develop and regenerate, work aimed at replacing the cells lost in diabetes.

Seymour Lieberman

Seymour Lieberman (1916–2012) was an American steroid biochemist and endocrinologist who spent over 60 years at Columbia University studying steroid hormone metabolism, pioneering the field.

Seymour Reichlin

Seymour Reichlin is an American neuroendocrinologist who led endocrinology at Rochester and Tufts, wrote landmark NEJM reviews on neuroendocrinology and somatostatin, and turned 100 in 2024.

Shah Ebrahim

Shah Ebrahim is a British clinical epidemiologist who studies heart disease and stroke, founded the British Women's Heart & Health Study, and co-edited the International Journal of Epidemiology.

Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola

Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola (1931–2018) was a cardiologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California who coined the concepts of hibernating myocardium and prosthesis-patient mismatch, reshaping cardiovascular practice.

Shalender Bhasin

Shalender Bhasin (S. Bhasin) is a physician-scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for research on testosterone therapy, muscle loss with aging, and men's health.

Shamir R. Mehta

Shamir R. Mehta is a Canadian interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist at McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, known for the COMPLETE trial of complete revascularization in myocardial infarction.

Shannon Brunjes

Shannon Brunjes is an American physician and catecholamine researcher who published in the New England Journal of Medicine on postoperative shock after pheochromocytoma removal, MAO-inhibitor overdose, and hypertension.

Shaun R. Coughlin

Shaun R. Coughlin is an American cardiovascular scientist who discovered the thrombin receptor PAR1, led UCSF's Cardiovascular Research Institute from 1997 to 2017, and joined Novartis in 2017.

Shehzad Basaria

Shehzad Basaria, who publishes as S. Basaria, is an endocrinologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, first author of the 2010 trial linking testosterone to cardiovascular events.

Sherif F. Nagueh

Sherif F. Nagueh is an Egyptian-born American cardiologist at Houston Methodist whose tissue Doppler work, including the E/e′ ratio, shaped how echocardiography estimates filling pressures.

Shigetake Sasayama

Shigetake Sasayama (篠山 重威) is a Japanese cardiologist and physician-scientist, professor of cardiovascular medicine at Kyoto University from 1991 to 2001, known for research on cytokines in heart failure.

Shimon Glick

Shimon Glick (born 1932) is an Israeli physician-scientist and endocrinologist who helped found Ben-Gurion University's Faculty of Health Sciences in 1974 and served as its dean.

Shingo Kajimura

Shingo Kajimura is a cell biologist studying brown and beige fat and energy metabolism, a Harvard Medical School professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2022.

Shivani Misra

Shivani Misra is a British physician-scientist in diabetes and metabolism at Imperial College London, known for research on early-onset type 2 diabetes and the NHS T2DAY program.

Shlomo Melmed

Shlomo Melmed is a South African-born endocrinologist who served as dean of the medical faculty at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and studies pituitary tumors and acromegaly.

Shonni J. Silverberg

Shonni J. Silverberg is an American endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University whose 10-year study of primary hyperparathyroidism shaped international treatment guidelines and co-directs its NIH-funded endocrinology fellowship.

Shu Chien

Shu Chien (钱煦), born 1931 in Beijing, is a Chinese-born American bioengineer and physiologist at UC San Diego known for his work on blood viscosity, blood flow forces, and atherosclerosis.

Sidney C. Smith

Sidney C. Smith is an American cardiologist at UNC Chapel Hill known for writing the ACC/AHA cardiovascular guidelines and a past president of the American Heart Association.

Sidney C. Werner

Sidney C. Werner was an American endocrinologist at Columbia University who classified the eye changes of Graves' disease and edited The Thyroid, first published in 1955.

Sidney H. Ingbar

Sidney H. Ingbar was an American endocrinologist, Chief of Endocrinology at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard professor, who published over 350 articles on thyroid function and led the Endocrine Society.

Silva Arslanian

Silva A. Arslanian is a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Pittsburgh who studies type 2 diabetes and obesity in youth, leading GLP-1 medication trials including liraglutide and semaglutide.

Silvia Corvera

Silvia Corvera is a Mexican-trained physician-scientist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, studying how adipose tissue development relates to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

Silvia G. Priori

Silvia G. Priori (Silvia Giuliana Priori), born 1960 in Torino, is an Italian cardiologist at the University of Pavia known for genetic research on inherited arrhythmias and gene therapy.

Silvio E. Inzucchi

Silvio E. Inzucchi is an American endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at Yale School of Medicine, where he directs the Yale Diabetes Center and studies diabetes drugs and heart disease.

Simin Liu

Simin Liu is a physician-scientist and epidemiologist known for large prospective studies of sex hormones and type 2 diabetes, now Distinguished Professor and chair at UC Irvine.

Simon Capewell

Simon Capewell is a British cardiovascular epidemiologist and the first Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Liverpool, appointed in 1999, known for the IMPACT model of coronary heart disease deaths.

Simon G. Thompson

Simon G. Thompson is a biostatistician and cardiovascular epidemiologist who directed the MRC Biostatistics Unit and was Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Cambridge.

Simon Heller

Simon R. Heller is a British diabetologist, Professor of Clinical Diabetes at the University of Sheffield, known for research on hypoglycemia and for developing the DAFNE education program.

Simon Rodbard

Simon Rodbard (1911–1975) was an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology, long at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago and Director of Cardiology at the City of Hope from 1963.