Harold Arthur Hill
Harold Arthur Hill (1901-1973) was an American radiologist who worked with Maurice David Sachs (1909-1987). Eponym: Hill-Sachs lesion (1940)
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Mary Holt
Mary Clayton Holt (1924 - 1993) was an English cardiologist. Holt-Oram syndrome (1960)
William Ganz
William Ganz (1919 – 2009) Slovakian-born American cardiologist. Co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter with Jeremy Swan at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 1970
Jeremy Swan
Harold James Charles 'Jeremy' Swan (1922 – 2005) was an was an Irish cardiologist. Co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter with William Ganz in 1970
Dickinson W. Richards
Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. (1895 - 1973) Nobel Laureate and celebrated American Physician. Famously known for his work in development of cardiac catherisation and physiology with André Frédéric Cournand and Werner Theodore Otto Forßman.
Werner Forssmann
Werner Theodore Otto Forßman (1904 - 1979) was a German Doctor, Nobel Laureate and a pioneer of interventional cardiology.
Nancy B. Esterly
Nancy Burton Esterly (1935 - 2017) was an American pediatric dermatologist. Esterly-McKusick syndrome (1971)
William Dock
William Dock (1898-1990) American cardiologist, irascible visionary whose prophetic warnings bucked convention. Dock's murmur, Dock's Law
Thomas S. Cullen
Thomas Stephen Cullen (1869 – 1953) was a Canadian gynecologist. Eponymously affiliated with Cullen sign (1918)
Pirkko Santavuori
Pirkko Santavuori (1933 - 2004) was a Finnish paediatric neurologist. Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (INCL) [Santavuori disease]
Julia Bell
Julia Bell (1879 - 1979) was an English human geneticist. Martin-Bell syndrome (1943) [Fragile X syndrome]
Ingrid Gamstorp
Ingrid Gamstorp (1924 - 2007) was a Swedish paediatric neurologist. Gamstorp disease (1956); Gamstorp-Wohlfart Syndrome (1959)