This is a list of people notable in the field of cardiology. Presented along with their year of birth, death, nationality, notability, and reference(s).
Name | Birth | Death | Nationality | Notes | Reference(s) | |
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1869 | 1940 | Canada | [1] | |||
1791 | 1875 | Ireland | [2] | |||
1937 | 2006 | United States | Inventor of the world's first lithium battery powered artificial pacemaker. | [3] | ||
1914 | 1983 | United States | [4] | |||
1957 | - | British | Treating complex heart conditions | [5] | ||
1866 | 1942 | Germany | [6] | |||
1924 | 2008 | South Africa | First described mitral valve prolapse (also called Barlow's syndrome) | [7] [8] | ||
1933 | 2007 | Venezuela | ||||
1926 | 2012 | Czechoslovakia | Pioneered cardiac defibrillators and pace makers | [9] | ||
Richard N. Fogoros | United States | [10] | ||||
1955 | France | [11] | ||||
1943 | United States | Published "Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: Techniques and Interpretations," | [12] | |||
1926 | Murdered his wife in August 1962. Received life imprisonment. | [13] [14] [15] | ||||
1895 | 1974 | Puerto Rico | Was the "first" Puerto Rican cardiologist and a former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico | [16] | ||
1927 | 2014 | Was given the title Master of the American College of Cardiology (M.A.C.C.), an honor given to a maximum three cardiologists in practice each year. | [17] [18] | |||
1935 | South Africa | Was chairman of the cardiology department at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem for 27 years. | [19] | |||
1939 | 1985 | German/American | Performed first balloon angioplasty. | [20] | ||
1899 | 1994 | [21] | ||||
Murray S. Hoffman | 1924 | 2018 | United States | Chief of Cardiology at National Jewish Hospital and then went into private practice in Denver, Colorado, President of the National Mayo Alumni Association, Member of the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology, President of the Colorado Heart Association, retired from private practice and joined the faculty at the University of Colorado Medical Center. As President of the Colorado Heart Association, he founded one of the early jogging programs promoting heart health. | ||
J. Willis Hurst | 1920 | 2011 | United States | Cardiologist of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Editor of Hurst's the Heart. | ||
1929 | [22] | |||||
Yariv Khaykin | Canada | [23] | ||||
1936 | Norway | chaired the National Association for Public Health from 2005. Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and was awarded the King's Medal of Merit | ||||
1960 | Nepal | [24] | ||||
Om Murti Anil | 1978 | Nepal | Known for raising health awareness against heart diseases. Received many awards including Suprabal Janasewa Shree, Best paper award by NHRC | [25] | ||
Described Kounis syndrome. | [26] | |||||
1926 | 2015 | Iranian-American | [27] [28] | |||
1918 | 2000 | Brazil | [29] | |||
1924 | 1990 | Polish-American | Implantable defibrillator | [30] | ||
1924 | 2007 | Bulgaria | [31] | |||
1923 | 1986 | Israeli | ||||
1936 | British | Awarded the State Prize of the USSR in the field of science and technology. | [32] | |||
Uganda | [33] | |||||
United States | Director of Research for the Hopkins Cardiovascular Fellowship Training Program | [34] | ||||
1956 | Russia | [35] | ||||
Korean | ||||||
1913 | 2005 | [36] | ||||
1895 | 1981 | [37] | ||||
Belgium | Editor-in-Chief, European Heart Journal | [38] | ||||
1935 | 2020 | Netherlands | Cardiac electro-physiology | |||
1864 | 1940 | [39] | ||||
1956 | Uruguay | Cardiologist turned politician | [40] | |||
Naresh Trehan | 1946 | Indian | Received numerous awards, including the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award and Dr. B. C. Roy Award. | |||
Bruce Lerman | United States | Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital. | ||||
1974- | United States | Pprofessor, researcher and scientists, known for novel findings in Linking atherosclerosis with blood monocytosis. |
32. http://armenianweekly.com/2016/04/06/hagop-janessian-1942-2016/