# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elazer-r-edelman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:28:47.781Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elazer-r-edelman"
name: "Elazer R. Edelman"
slug: "elazer-r-edelman"
description: "Elazer R. Edelman is an American engineer and cardiologist. He is the Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). He is also a practicing cardiologist at BWH. He is the director of the MIT Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR), the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center, and was previously director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) at MIT. He is also the Program Director of the MIT Graduate Education in Medical Sciences program within the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology."
tagline: "American engineer, scientist and cardiologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           43.31
  momentum:             2.875481386392811
  historical:           1.569441333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  49
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elazer_R._Edelman"
    title: "Elazer R. Edelman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22073799"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations