| |  | Dante Pazzanese was a noted Italian-Brazilian physician and cardiovascular surgeon of São Paulo, the founder of the Institute of Cardiology of the S... |  | Paul Dudley White, M.D. (June 6, 1886 - October 31, 1973) was a pioneering cardiologist, and a founding member of the American Heart Association.... |  | Bernard Lown, M.D. was the original developer of the defibrillator and is an internationally known peace activist. Born in Lithuania, he emigrated... |  | Robert Coleman Atkins, MD (October 17, 1930 - April 17, 2003) was an American doctor and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Nutritional... | | | William C. DeVries (Dec 19, 1943 -) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, who performed the first successful permanent artificial heart... | | | Professor John R Cockcroft, great nephew of the Noble Prize winner John Cockcroft who split the atom. John R now works in the field of cardiology... |  | Philippe Douste-Blazy (born on 1 January, 1953) was the Foreign Minister of France in the cabinet of Dominique de Villepin. Douste-Blazy is also a... | | | Robert Arthur Bruce (November 20, 1916, Somerville, Massachusetts-February 12, 2004, Seattle, Washington) was an internationally recognized... |  | Jeremy Swan (June 1 1922 - February 7 2005) was an Irish cardiologist from Sligo who co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter (widely used in intensive... |  | Luis Alfredo Palacio González served as President of Ecuador from April 2005 to January 2007. From January 15 2003 to April 20 2005, he served as v... | |
