Paul D. White is considered the founder of preventive cardiology, and played a prominent role in the establishment of influential entities such as the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Paul Dudley White (June 6, 1886—October 31, 1973) was born in Roxbury, Mass, and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1911. Following work at the Massachusetts General Hospital he also started teaching at Harvard Medical School in 1921 and continued to do so until 1956. An avid walker and cyclist, Dr. White was a strong believer in exercise, diet, and weight control to prevent heart disease and became Eisenhower's physician following the President's heart attack in 1955. He wrote over 700 articles and 12 books, the most notable of which, Heart Disease (1931) became a classic. In 1964 Dr. White was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Paul Dudley White appears in the following:
The Epidemiology of Heart Disease [Hermann M. Biggs Memorial Lecture]
Thursday, February 07, 1957
