List of cardiologists

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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).

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Cardiologists

NameBirthDeathNationalityNotesReference(s)
Maude Abbott 18691940Canada [1]
Robert Adams 17911875Ireland [2]
Anthony Adducci 19372006United StatesInventor of the world's first lithium battery powered artificial pacemaker. [3]
Raymond Perry Ahlquist 19141983United States [4]
John Ainsworth 1957–BritishTreating complex heart conditions [5]
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff 18661942Germany [6]
John Brereton Barlow 19242008South AfricaFirst described mitral valve prolapse (also called Barlow's syndrome) [7] [8]
Christiaan Neethling Barnard 19222001South AfricaCardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation
Fernando Antonio Bermúdez Arias 19332007Venezuela
Barouh Berkovits 19262012 Czechoslovakia Pioneered cardiac defibrillators and pace makers [9]
Richard N. FogorosUnited States [10]
Werner Forssmann 19041979Germany1929 first cardiac catheterization
Michel Haïssaguerre 1955France [11]
Roland Hetzer 1944GermanyFounder of Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin
Mark Josephson 1943United StatesPublished "Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: Techniques and Interpretations," [12]
Geza de Kaplany 1926 Hungary Murdered his wife in August 1962. Received life imprisonment. [13] [14] [15]
Antonio Fernós-Isern 18951974 Puerto Rico Was the "first" Puerto Rican cardiologist and a former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico [16]
Mario R. García Palmieri 19272014 Puerto Rico 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]
Mervyn Gotsman 1935South AfricaWas chairman of the cardiology department at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem for 27 years. [19]
Andreas Gruentzig 19391985 German/AmericanPerformed first balloon angioplasty. [20]
Max Holzmann 18991994 [21]
Murray S. Hoffman 19242018United StatesChief 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 19202011United StatesCardiologist of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Editor of Hurst's the Heart.
Vladimir Kanjuh 1929 Macedonia [22]
Yariv Khaykin Canada [23]
John Kjekshus 1936Norwaychaired 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 1960Nepal [24]
Om Murti Anil1978NepalKnown for raising health awareness against heart diseases. Received many awards including Suprabal Janasewa Shree, Best paper award by NHRC [25]
Nicholas Kounis Greece Described Kounis syndrome. [26]
Rashid Massumi 19262015Iranian-American [27] [28]
Quintiliano de Mesquita 19182000Brazil [29]
Michel Mirowski 19241990Polish-AmericanImplantable defibrillator [30]
Ivan Mitev 19242007BulgariaDiscovered the sixth heart tone [31]
Henry N. Neufeld 19231986Israeli
Denis Noble 1936BritishAwarded the State Prize of the USSR in the field of science and technology. [32]
Emmy Okello Uganda [33]
Wendy S. Post United StatesDirector of Research for the Hopkins Cardiovascular Fellowship Training Program [34]
Amiran Revishvili 1956Russia [35]
Park Seung-jung Korean
Walter Somerville 19132005 Ireland [36]
Ramón M. Suárez 18951981 Puerto Rico [37]
Frans Van de Werf BelgiumEditor-in-Chief, European Heart Journal [38]
Hein Wellens 19352020NetherlandsCardiac electro-physiology
Karel Frederik Wenckebach 18641940 Netherlands and Austria [39]
Mónica Xavier 1956UruguayCardiologist turned politician [40]
Naresh Trehan 1946IndianReceived numerous awards, including the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award and Dr. B. C. Roy Award.
Bruce Lerman United StatesChief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Filip Swirski 1974-United StatesProfessor, researcher and scientists, known for novel findings in Linking atherosclerosis with blood monocytosis.

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