Who is responsible for naming coronary artery disease?

Founding fathers -: Well -- the knowledge of coronary artery disease has evolved tremendously in the past 100 years -- and each new finding is attributed and probably named by the clinician or scientist whose works is recognized by the clinical/scientific community at the time.

The cardiologist: I assume you mean who generally makes the diagnosis. The internist or primary care may also make the diagnosis via ekg or stress test. The diffinitive diagnosis of CAD as far as what arteries are involved and how severely they are narrowed is achieved by cardiac catheterization (dye into the arteries) which is performed by a cardiologist. Some are now using ct scan but the accuracy remains in ?

Giovanni Morgagni?: Giovanni morgagni is generally considered the father of anatomical pathology -- and may have been first to name the blood vessels around the heart, "coronary." they sit like a "crown" (latin: "coronarius") upon the heart. Morgagni also described "hardening" of these arteries. Many others, of course, have also contributed to the development of these ideas.