Steven Nissen named to the Time 100

Steven Nissen has sparked serious medical debates about the safety and viability of both Vioxx and Avandia -- two of the hottest medical debates of the year.

Time magazine has named him as one of the most influential people of the year, Here's a brief excerpt and link to the main Time article.

Linked from http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1595329_1616143,00.html
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Nissen, 58, a heart specialist at the Cleveland Clinic, started his climb to medical prominence in 1987 when he recognized that newer ultrasound imaging devices could be miniaturized and threaded into the beating heart to reveal the exact composition of plaques representing the early stages of artery damage. Once he could characterize plaques and measure their size, he could evaluate how well anticholesterol medications were doing their job. Drugmakers soon came his way, figuring they could save millions of dollars in product development.