List of cardiologists

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).

Cardiologists

Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Notes	Reference(s)
Maude Abbott	1869	1940	Canada		[1]
Robert Adams	1791	1875	Ireland		[2]
Anthony Adducci	1937	2006	United States	Inventor of the world's first lithium battery powered artificial pacemaker.	[3]
Raymond Perry Ahlquist	1914	1983	United States		[4]
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff	1866	1942	Germany		[5]
John Brereton Barlow	1924	2008	South African	First described mitral valve prolapse (also called Barlow's syndrome)	[6][7]
Fernando Antonio Bermúdez Arias	1933	2007	Venezuelan
Barouh Berkovits	1926	2012	Czechoslovakia	Pioneered cardiac defibrillators and pace makers	[8]
Richard N. Fogoros			American		[9]
Michel Haïssaguerre	1955		French		[10]
Mark Josephson	1943		American	Published "Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: Techniques and Interpretations,"	[11]
Geza de Kaplany	1926		Hungarian	Murdered his wife in August 1962. Received life imprisonment.	[12][13][14]
Antonio Fernós-Isern	1895	1974	Puerto Rican	Was the "first" Puerto Rican cardiologist and a former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico	[15]
Mario R. García Palmieri	1927		Puerto Rican	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.	[16][17]
Mervyn Gotsman	1935		South African	Was chairman of the cardiology department at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem for 27 years.	[18]
Andreas Gruentzig	1939	1985	German/ American	Performed first balloon angioplasty.	[19]
Max Holzmann	1899	1994			[20]
Murray S. Hoffman	1924		American	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.
Vladimir Kanjuh	1929		Macedonian		[21]
John Kjekshus	1936		Norwegian	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
Bhagawan Koirala	1960		Nepali		[22]
Nicholas Kounis			Greek	Described Kounis syndrome.	[23]
Rashid Massumi	1926	2015	Iranian-American		[24][25]
Quintiliano de Mesquita	1918	2000	Brazilian		[26]
Michel Mirowski	1924	1990	Polish-American	Implantable defibrillator	[27]
Ivan Mitev	1924	2007	Bulgarian	Discovered the sixth heart tone	[28]
Henry N. Neufeld	1923	1986	Israeli
Denis Noble	1936		British	Awarded the State Prize of the USSR in the field of science and technology.	[29]
Emmy Okello			Ugandan		[30]
Amiran Revishvili	1956		Russian		[31]
Park Seung-jung			Korean
Walter Somerville	1913	2005	Irish		[32]
Ramón M. Suárez	1895	1981	Puerto Rican		[33]
Frans Van de Werf			Belgium	Editor-in-Chief, European Heart Journal	[34]
Hein Wellens	1935		Dutch	Cardiac electro-physiology
Karel Frederik Wenckebach	1864	1940	Dutch and Austrian		[35]
Mónica Xavier	1956		Uruguayan	Cardiologist turned politician	[36]
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			American	Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital.

See also

• List of cardiac pharmaceutical agents

References

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