Some of the people who built modern cardiology are still operating, still teaching and still publishing. This section profiles clinicians whose careers are ongoing and whose influence is measurable now — in the guidelines they helped write, the techniques that carry their modification, and the fellows they trained.Each profile sets out the clinical problem the person addressed, what they changed about it, and where the evidence for that change sits. Where a technique or trial is attributed to them, it is named and dated, so a reader can go and check the primary source rather than take the profile’s word for it.For clinicians whose work is now historical, see Late Icons of Medical Science. To nominate a living colleague, see Academy membership.
Ten cardiologists whose work changed the specialty, and the specific contribution that earned each of them a place on the list.
The career and enduring influence of Dr Eugene Braunwald on modern cardiology, from bedside physiology to the trials that defined the field.