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David Herrington, MD

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Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine (Winston-Salem), Wake Forest University School of Medicine · Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

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Region🇺🇸 Winston Salem, NC · Southeast · United StatesSpecialtyCardiovascular DiseaseFocusCardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention+4
Active KOLfindmyKOL type: NationalLatest publication2026Online presenceverified 2026Payments2024–2025NIH funding1991–2026

David Herrington is Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine (Winston-Salem), Wake Forest University School of Medicine at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. OpenAlex indexes 671 publications with 41,161 citations (h-index 98); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 6 registered studies with this person as an investigator. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 5% of Cardiovascular Disease profiles in the findmyKOL directory.

Data verified 14 Aug 2026

Overview

Updated 13 Oct 2026

David Herrington, MD, is Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine (Winston-Salem), Wake Forest University School of Medicine at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist (Wake Forest University School of Medicine). The public record shows 671 publications with 41,161 citations (h-index 98), centered on Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention, Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments, Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics. It also documents an investigator role on 6 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 3 companies, 16 NIH-funded awards (1991–2026).

  • Most recent indexed publication: 2026 · Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Top research focus: Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • 6 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
  • Open Payments reporting from 3 companies

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Indications focus

from trials led + research topics
Cardiovascular Diseases4 trialsVascular Diseases4 trialsCoronary Artery Disease3 trialsCoronary Artery Disease / ACS2 trialsAtherosclerosis2 trialsMyocardial Ischemia1 trialIschemia1 trialType 2 Diabetes

Research focus

OpenAlex concept fingerprint
Cardiovascular Health and Disease PreventionMenopause: Health Impacts and TreatmentsCardiac Imaging and DiagnosticsEstrogen and related hormone effectsDiabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins

Drugs & molecules

across trials, industry payments and publications
Tryviogeneric · AprocitentanClinical trials—Industry payments1Publications—

Works with

trial sponsors and companies reporting payments
Novo Nordisk IncClinical trials—Industry payments4Wake Forest University Health SciencesClinical trials3Industry payments—National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)Clinical trials2Industry payments—Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Us IncClinical trials—Industry payments1Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCClinical trials—Industry payments1Tufts UniversityClinical trials1Industry payments—

Scholarship

indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)
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671publications

Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID; 10 in PubMed.

41,161citations

Total citations across indexed works.

98h-index

Hirsch index (OpenAlex). i10-index 372.

Clinical & industry

trials, payments and federal funding
6clinical trials

Investigator role on registered studies.

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3companies · 2024–2025

Companies reporting payments to CMS. Facts, not judgments.

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16NIH grants · 1991–2026

Federally funded research awards.

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Contact

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Practice address

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Clinical trials

Updated 13 Oct 2026

Listed as an investigator on 6 registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:

Industry payments

Updated 13 Oct 2026

3 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2024–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:

NIH funding

Updated 13 Oct 2026

16 NIH research awards on record, funded 1991–2026 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:

Congress activity

Updated 13 Oct 2026

8 congress contributions (2017–2024) across AACR, ADA per OpenAlex. The most recent:

Publications

Updated 13 Oct 2026

Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.

Network

Updated 13 Oct 2026

The people this person publishes with most, by number of co-authored papers. Names link to their own profile when we have one.

Donald W. Bowden53Wendy S. Post51Joseph Yeboah51Gregory L. Burke48Stephen S. Rich46Bruce M. Psaty44Russell P. Tracy43Alka M. Kanaya42Jerome I. Rotter42J. Jeffrey Carr41Barry I. Freedman40Alain G. Bertoni35Timothy D. Howard32João A.C. Lima31Philip Greenland30Elsayed Z. Soliman30Ramachandran S. Vasan29Carl D. Langefeld29Yongmei Liu27David S. Siscovick26Eric Boerwinkle26Guoqiang Yu26Eric Vittinghoff25Dalane W. Kitzman25Robert Clarke24Kent D. Taylor24David R. Jacobs24James E. Hixson24Michael Y. Tsai24Jennifer E. Van Eyk23Namratha R. Kandula23Matthew J. Budoff23Lynne E. Wagenknecht23Ioanna Tzoulaki22Mary Cushman22Joshua C. Bis22Emelia J. Benjamin22Dhananjay Vaidya22Susan R. Heckbert20Michael J. Blaha20

Online presence

Updated 13 Oct 2026

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Owned accounts

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  • Doximity

    doximity.com/pub/david-herrington-md

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  • ResearchGate

    researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/David-M-Herrington-39007819

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  • LinkedIn

    linkedin.com/in/david-herrington-1a59a38

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Mentions by others

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  • Other

    emedevents.com/speaker-profile/david-herrington

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  • Other

    masalastudy.org/team/2016/3/12/david-herrington

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  • YouTube

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Background & recognition

Updated 13 Oct 2026

Credentials, appointments and honors, newest first, each linked to the public source it came from.

Education

degrees and training on record
  • MD

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

    1983
    verifiedCorroborated by findmyKOL. We matched this record across two or more independent public sources (or a verified ORCID / NPI identifier bridge) before attributing it to this person.How we verify →wakehealth.edu ↗
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  • Board Certified

    Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease (American Board of Internal Medicine)

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Editorial & leadership roles

journal and society appointments
  • Member

    American College of Cardiology

    verifiedCorroborated by findmyKOL. We matched this record across two or more independent public sources (or a verified ORCID / NPI identifier bridge) before attributing it to this person.How we verify →school.wakehealth.edu ↗
  • Member

    American College of Physicians

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  • Member

    AHA - Council On Epidemiology

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  • Member

    American Gerontological Society

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Awards & honors

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Secondary affiliations

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Media & interviews

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