Albert Pacifico

Similar topics in Freebase

• 

  Fredrick Willius

  Fredrick Arthur Willius(b. November 24, 1888 in Saint Paul, Minnesota d. 1972) was a research cardiologist and the author of many hundreds of essays and no small number of books and textbooks in his field. Known to all as "F.A.," Willius was born to an upper class and well known family in St. Paul,...

• Paul Dudley White

  Paul Dudley White (June 6, 1886 – October 31, 1973), American physician and cardiologist, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Herbert Warren White and Elizabeth Abigail Dudley. White's interest in medicine was sparked early in life, when he accompanied his father, a family practitioner,...

• Helen B. Taussig

  Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 - May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. Notably, she is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetrology of Fallot...

• Arthur DeBoer

  Arthur DeBoer M.D, FACS, is an American cardiologist and Professor Emeritus specializing in cardiac surgery at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. DeBoer is one of the pioneer cardiac surgeons in Chicago and was on staff at Wesley Memorial Hospital later (called Northwestern...

• Herman Tarnower

  Herman Tarnower (March 18, 1910 – March 10, 1980) was a cardiologist and the author (with Samm Sinclair Baker) of the bestselling diet book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet. He was murdered by Jean Harris. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1910 to Dora and Harry Tarnower. Both were Jewish...

• Raymond Vieussens

  Raymond Vieussens (ca. 1635 - August 16, 1715) was a French anatomist from Vigan. He studied medicine at the University of Montpellier where he earned his degree in 1670. He later became head physician at Hôtel Dieu Saint-Eloi in Montpellier. There is uncertainty regarding the exact year of...

• Jean-Baptiste de Sénac

  Jean-Baptiste de Sénac (1693 – 1770) was a French physician who was born in the town of Lombez. Details of his early life are sketchy, however it is generally thought that he studied medicine at the University of Leyden, and later in London, where one of his instructors was John Freind (1675-1728)....

• Dennis Kuchar

  Dennis Lawrence Kuchar (born 7 June 1956) is a cardiologist based in Sydney, Australia. He was one of the first cardiologists to perform research on the signal averaged ECG. This groundbreaking research laid the groundwork for the current paradigm of ECG use for prediction of sudden death. Kuchar...

• William Broadbent

  Sir William Henry Broadbent, 1st Baronet (January 23, 1835 – July 10, 1907) was an English neurologist who was born in Lindley, West Yorkshire. He studied medicine at Owens College and the Royal School of Medicine in Manchester. For most of his career he was associated with St Mary's Hospital,...

• John R Cockcroft

  John R Cockcroft is Professor of Cardiology at the Heart Research Institute in Cardiff, Wales. Cockcroft also holds the position of Special Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the University of Nottingham, and is currently visiting Professor at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New...