Lequime, Jean MD (1908-1999)

Jean Lequime is one of the earliest, and one of the few, academic cardiologists to recognize the important and complementary role of epidemiology and preventive approaches.

He signed on early with the efforts of Paul Dudley White and Ancel Keys to bring population studies and trials into mainstream cardiology. His close contacts with international cardiology were responsible for the rapid and effective organization of the International Society of Cardiology (now the World Heart Federation) into scientific councils at the 1966 World Congress of Cardiology in New Delhi.