# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alain-carpentier
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:22:05.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alain-carpentier"
name: "Alain Carpentier"
slug: "alain-carpentier"
description: "Alain Frédéric Carpentier is a French cardiac surgeon whom the President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery calls the \"father of modern mitral valve repair\". He is most well-known for the development and popularization of a number of mitral valve repair techniques. In 1996, he performed the first minimally invasive mitral valve repair in the world and in 1998 he performed the first robotic mitral valve repair with the da Vinci Surgical System prototype. He is the recipient of the 2007 Lasker Prize."
tagline: "French surgeon (1933- )"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-08-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.572717333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آلان كاربنتيي"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Carpentier"
    title: "Alain Carpentier"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Carpentier"
    title: "Alain Carpentier"
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  - url: "https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Carpentier"
    title: "Alain Carpentier"
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    title: "അലെയ്ൻ കാർപെന്റിയർ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "อาแล็ง การ์ป็องตีเย"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump