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Most active experts in Hypertension

2026 edition, data as of October 26, 2026

414 key opinion leaders in the directory are tagged to Hypertension. 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. 230 of the 414 people tagged to this indication have this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov.

#Experttrials
1Wanpen VongpatanasinUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX12 trials
2David KandzariPiedmont Heart Institute, GA8 trials
3Roham ZamanianStanford University School of Medicine, CA8 trials
4Rajan SaggarUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA7 trials
5Rajiv AgarwalRichard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, TX6 trials
6Ajay KirtaneColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY6 trials
7Carl PepineUniversity of Florida College of Medicine, FL6 trials
8William StewartCleveland Clinic, OH6 trials
9Naomi FisherBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA6 trials
10Aaron WaxmanBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA5 trials
11Pankaj AroraUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), AL5 trials
12Marc SimonUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA5 trials
13Sudarshan RajagopalNC4 trials
14Eric AustinVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN4 trials
15Anna HemnesVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN4 trials
16Guillermo UmpierrezEmory University, GA4 trials
17Maged CostantineThe Ohio State University, OH4 trials
18Nicholas HillTufts Medical Center, MA4 trials
19Elaine KuUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA4 trials
20Michael WeberSUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, NY4 trials
21Lisa MielniczukMayo Clinic, MN3 trials
22Jing LiuTX3 trials
23Yogesh ReddyMN3 trials
24Steven HerrmannPA3 trials
25Wen-Chih WuBrown University, RI3 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. 69 of the 414 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
1Gregg StoneIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY175,965 citations
2Virend SomersMayo Clinic, MN77,896 citations
3Carl PepineUniversity of Florida College of Medicine, FL75,621 citations
4Suzanne OparilUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, AL68,716 citations
5Jay CohnUniversity of Minnesota, MN66,248 citations
6Baha SibaiMcGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, TX57,170 citations
7Arshed QuyyumiEmory University, GA56,665 citations
8Barry BorlaugMayo Clinic, MN55,517 citations
9Victor TapsonInari Medical, CA55,237 citations
10Ajay KirtaneColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY54,029 citations
11Sadiya KhanNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL52,994 citations
12Mark HuffmanWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO50,763 citations
13Michael WeberSUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, NY49,925 citations
14Guillermo UmpierrezEmory University, GA48,528 citations
15Adnan QureshiUniversity of Missouri Columbia School of Medicine, MO45,302 citations
16Rajiv AgarwalRichard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, TX45,260 citations
17Brahmajee NallamothuUniversity of Michigan, MI40,575 citations
18Steven AbmanUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine, CO36,146 citations
19Robert TotoUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX33,663 citations
20Jeffrey BurnsUniversity of Kansas Medical Center, KS32,650 citations
21Don RockeyMedical University of South Carolina, SC31,774 citations
22William StewartCleveland Clinic, OH30,760 citations
23David KandzariPiedmont Heart Institute, GA29,091 citations
24Paul HassounJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD28,706 citations
25Nicholas HillTufts Medical Center, MA28,650 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. 54 of the 414 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
1Robert TotoUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX22 awards
2Steven AbmanUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine, CO17 awards
3Suzanne OparilUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, AL16 awards
4Jeffrey BurnsUniversity of Kansas Medical Center, KS16 awards
5Virend SomersMayo Clinic, MN15 awards
6Anna HemnesVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN12 awards
7Arshed QuyyumiEmory University, GA12 awards
8Rajesh VedanthanNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY10 awards
9Paul HassounJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD9 awards
10Sadiya KhanNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL9 awards
11Carl PepineUniversity of Florida College of Medicine, FL9 awards
12Elaine KuUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA9 awards
13Ellen SeelyBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA9 awards
14Wanpen VongpatanasinUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX9 awards
15Brahmajee NallamothuUniversity of Michigan, MI8 awards
16Pankaj AroraUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), AL8 awards
17Anand VaidyaBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA7 awards
18Don RockeyMedical University of South Carolina, SC7 awards
19Jay CohnUniversity of Minnesota, MN6 awards
20Eric AustinVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN6 awards
21Peter LearyUniversity of Washington Medical Center, WA6 awards
22Kerri CavanaughVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN6 awards
23Harrison FarberTufts Medical Center, MA6 awards
24Naomi FisherBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA6 awards
25Sudarshan RajagopalNC5 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. 18 of the 414 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 18 highest are listed. Source: Congress abstracts, DOI-verified.

#Expertcontributions
1Guillermo UmpierrezEmory University, GA109 contributions
2Anand VaidyaBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA33 contributions
3Ellen SeelyBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA17 contributions
4Roberto MachadoUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, IN8 contributions
5Robert TotoUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX6 contributions
6Sadiya KhanNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL4 contributions
7Kerri CavanaughVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN2 contributions
8Yuchi HanThe Ohio State University, OH2 contributions
9Carl PepineUniversity of Florida College of Medicine, FL2 contributions
10Don RockeyMedical University of South Carolina, SC2 contributions
11Phyllis AugustWeill Cornell Medicine, NY1 contribution
12Keith FerdinandTulane University School of Medicine, LA1 contribution
13Maged CostantineThe Ohio State University, OH1 contribution
14Nicholas HillTufts Medical Center, MA1 contribution
15Pankaj AroraUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), AL1 contribution
16Virend SomersMayo Clinic, MN1 contribution
17Rajan SaggarUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA1 contribution
18Marc SimonUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA1 contribution

Emerging

14 of the 414 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.

Amier AhmadHonorHealth, WA
Naomi FisherBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA
Seth FurgesonDenver Health Medical Center, CO
Michael LipkowitzGeorgetown University, DC
Shriram NallamshettyVA Palo Alto Health Care System, CA
Prema RamaswamyNY
Chanwit RoongsritongNV
Douglas SchockenDuke University, NC
Stacey SchottJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD
Jared SpitzInova Health System, VA
Anand VaidyaBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA
Joseph VassalottiNational Kidney Foundation, NY
Eugene YangWA
David ZismanCleveland Clinic, FL

How these tables are computed

The cohort is every profile in the directory tagged to Hypertension, 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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