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Most active experts in Coronary Artery Disease / ACS

2026 edition, data as of October 26, 2026

514 key opinion leaders in the directory are tagged to Coronary Artery Disease / ACS. The tables below rank them by one public measure each: registered trials, citations, NIH awards and congress contributions. Each is a count from a named source, not a judgment about the person, and every row links a profile where the count can be checked.

Most registered trials

Registered clinical trials in this indication on which the person is a listed investigator, counted from ClinicalTrials.gov. 260 of the 514 people tagged to this indication have this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov.

#Experttrials
1Dominick AngiolilloUniversity of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville, FL29 trials
2Gregg StoneIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY28 trials
3Ron WaksmanMedStar Washington Hospital Center, DC18 trials
4David KandzariPiedmont Heart Institute, GA17 trials
5Bo XuCleveland Clinic, OH15 trials
6Antonio ColomboNY13 trials
7Paul GurbelSinai Hospital of Baltimore, MD13 trials
8Dean KereiakesThe Christ Hospital, OH12 trials
9Binita ShahNYU Langone Health, NY12 trials
10Harlan KrumholzYale School of Medicine, CT10 trials
11Emmanouil BrilakisMinneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, MN10 trials
12Roxana MehranIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY10 trials
13Martin LeonColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY9 trials
14Jun LiUniversity Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute (Cleveland/Parma, OH); Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, OH9 trials
15Harmony ReynoldsNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY8 trials
16Ajay KirtaneColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY8 trials
17Antonio AbbateUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, VA8 trials
18Bernardo CorteseUniversity Hospitals (Cleveland), OH8 trials
19Mario GaudinoWeill Cornell Medicine, NY8 trials
20Annapoorna KiniIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY7 trials
21Todd VillinesUniversity of Virginia Health System, VA7 trials
22Jeffrey MosesWeill Cornell Medicine, NY7 trials
23Emerson PerinChrist Hospital, TX6 trials
24Arshed QuyyumiEmory University, GA6 trials
25John PuskasEmory University, GA6 trials

Most cited

Citations to the person's whole published record in OpenAlex, not only their work in this indication, among the people with at least two registered trials in it. 80 of the 514 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: OpenAlex.

#Expertcitations
1Paul RidkerBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA234,595 citations
2Deepak BhattIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY223,866 citations
3Harlan KrumholzYale School of Medicine, CT218,680 citations
4Eric TopolScripps Research Institute (Scripps Research), CA184,218 citations
5Gregg StoneIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY175,965 citations
6Christie BallantyneBaylor College of Medicine, TX125,874 citations
7Matthew BudoffUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA111,573 citations
8James JanuzziMassachusetts General Hospital, MA102,327 citations
9Pamela DouglasDuke University, NC96,108 citations
10Ronald CrystalWeill Cornell Medicine, NY86,411 citations
11Daniel MarkDuke University Medical Center, NC85,035 citations
12Raj MakkarCedars-Sinai Medical Center, CA81,521 citations
13Robert HarringtonWeill Cornell Medicine, NY79,367 citations
14Carl PepineUniversity of Florida College of Medicine, FL75,621 citations
15Jeffrey MosesWeill Cornell Medicine, NY74,595 citations
16Nanette WengerEmory University, GA68,894 citations
17Ron WaksmanMedStar Washington Hospital Center, DC58,878 citations
18Donald CutlipBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, MA57,277 citations
19Arshed QuyyumiEmory University, GA56,665 citations
20Dean KereiakesThe Christ Hospital, OH56,141 citations
21William KrausDuke University School of Medicine, NC55,403 citations
22Dominick AngiolilloUniversity of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville, FL54,501 citations
23Ajay KirtaneColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY54,029 citations
24Joshua HareUniversity of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL53,927 citations
25Cindy GrinesNorthside Hospital, GA53,124 citations

Most NIH awards

NIH awards on the person's record in NIH RePORTER, across all of their funded work, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 52 of the 514 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: NIH RePORTER.

#Expertawards
1Ronald CrystalWeill Cornell Medicine, NY51 awards
2Albert SinusasCT17 awards
3David HerringtonAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, NC16 awards
4Christie BallantyneBaylor College of Medicine, TX15 awards
5Joshua HareUniversity of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL15 awards
6Daniel MarkDuke University Medical Center, NC15 awards
7Eric TopolScripps Research Institute (Scripps Research), CA14 awards
8Michael YinColumbia University, NY13 awards
9William KrausDuke University School of Medicine, NC12 awards
10Antonio AbbateUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, VA12 awards
11Arshed QuyyumiEmory University, GA12 awards
12Joao LimaJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD10 awards
13Carl PepineUniversity of Florida College of Medicine, FL9 awards
14Harlan KrumholzYale School of Medicine, CT8 awards
15Paul RidkerBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA7 awards
16Horng ChenMayo Clinic, MN6 awards
17Mario GaudinoWeill Cornell Medicine, NY6 awards
18Valentin FusterNY5 awards
19Jeffrey BergerNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY5 awards
20Matthew BudoffUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA5 awards
21William FearonStanford University School of Medicine, CA5 awards
22Pamela DouglasDuke University, NC5 awards
23James UdelsonTufts Medical Center, MA4 awards
24David SchneiderUniversity of Vermont, VT4 awards
25Emerson PerinChrist Hospital, TX3 awards

Most congress contributions

Congress abstracts and presentations attributed to the person and verified by DOI, across every meeting the directory tracks, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 21 of the 514 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 21 highest are listed. Source: Congress abstracts, DOI-verified.

#Expertcontributions
1Deepak BhattIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY21 contributions
2David HerringtonAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, NC8 contributions
3Pamela DouglasDuke University, NC6 contributions
4William KrausDuke University School of Medicine, NC5 contributions
5Antonio AbbateUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, VA5 contributions
6Paul RidkerBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA5 contributions
7Harmony ReynoldsNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY4 contributions
8James JanuzziMassachusetts General Hospital, MA3 contributions
9Jeffrey BergerNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY3 contributions
10Ronald CrystalWeill Cornell Medicine, NY3 contributions
11Binita ShahNYU Langone Health, NY3 contributions
12Bo XuCleveland Clinic, OH2 contributions
13Ron WaksmanMedStar Washington Hospital Center, DC2 contributions
14Carl PepineUniversity of Florida College of Medicine, FL2 contributions
15Joshua HareUniversity of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL2 contributions
16Matthew PriceScripps Clinic, CA1 contribution
17Robert SafianCorewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital, MI1 contribution
18Dominick AngiolilloUniversity of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville, FL1 contribution
19Todd VillinesUniversity of Virginia Health System, VA1 contribution
20Nanette WengerEmory University, GA1 contribution
21Koen NiemanStanford University School of Medicine, CA1 contribution

Emerging

20 of the 514 carry the Emerging flag: publication and trial activity rising over the recent three years, in the top ten percent for growth among specialty peers at a similar career stage. Listed A to Z, not ranked; the flag is a yes or nothing, never a score. How the flag is computed.

Joe AounHouston Methodist, TX
Natalia BerryDartmouth College, NH
Indrajit ChoudhuriWI
Deepakraj GajananaNY
Kishore HarjaiGA
Uzoma IbebuoguTN
Vikrant JagadeesanPA
Santhosh KoshyMI
Charles LuiTX
Steven ManoukianHCA Healthcare, TN
Hursh NaikCreighton University, AZ
Shriram NallamshettyVA Palo Alto Health Care System, CA
Mattheus RamsisUniversity of California, San Diego, CA
Andrew RassiMA
Chanwit RoongsritongNV
Anne SchottUniversity of Michigan, MI
Kimberly SkeldingWA
Seth SokolAlbert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
Naeem TahirkheliOK
Anene UkaigweWV

How these tables are computed

The cohort is every profile in the directory tagged to Coronary Artery Disease / ACS, from the person's registered trials and published research. Only indications with at least 200 tagged people get a page; a smaller cohort would say more about the tag than about the people in it. Each table sorts the cohort by one count, highest first, with no weighting, no blending and no editorial pass. Ties are broken by the profile's stable internal id so the same counts always give the same order. A person with no count on record is left out of that table, not ranked last.

Citations, NIH awards and congress contributions are counts over a person's whole record, not their work in this indication alone, so those three tables are limited to the indication's investigators: people with at least 2 registered trials in it. Without that rule the most cited people in a cohort are the ones whose careers span many diseases, which is a fact about their careers, not about this field. The registered-trials table is the indication-scoped count itself and has no such limit.

The counts are recomputed on every publish and the page carries the date of the publish it was built from. Previous editions are superseded, not archived.

What is deliberately absent

Reported industry payments are on every profile but are not a table here: a count of payers is a fact, and ranking people by it reads as a judgment. Prescribing volume is part of the paid workspace. The directory's influence tier is a judgment and never orders a public page. Sources and methodology.

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