• Question: What is the technical term for a heart scientist?

    Asked by anon-178902 to Samuel, Kate on 15 Jun 2018.
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      Samuel Vennin answered on 15 Jun 2018:

      This is a tricky question. I guess the first term that comes to my mind is a cardiologist (someone who is a specialist of the heart) but I am not one and I would still define myself as a heart scientist… The truth is that they are many types of scientists who can study the heart. For example, mathematicians can use equations to look at the mechanics of the heart and model it on computers (I work with some), biologists can investigate what happens in the heart muscle that cause it to stop beating, chemists can make new drugs to improve the heart performance, imaging scientists design MRI or ultrasound sequence to help capture nice pictures and videos of the heart, etc. There are many ways of being a heart scientist and that is also what makes this job interesting 🙂

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      Kate Kuyt answered on 16 Jun 2018:

      Yes I would agree with Samuel. A heart doctor is called a cardiologist. I also work a lot with cardiac physiologist who are experts are running tests on your heart. You can also get nurses that specialist in hearts. Then all the people doing research about hearts. If you hear the work ‘cardio’ or ‘cardiac’ is it about the heart.

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