# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-genest
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:25:00.679Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-genest"
name: "Jacques Genest"
slug: "jacques-genest"
description: "Jacques Genest was a Canadian physician and scientist. He founded the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) and was an emeritus professor at Université de Montréal and a professor at McGill University. Genest was best known for founding and leading several organizations related to clinical research in Québec and for his work on arterial hypertension."
tagline: "Canadian physician and hypertension researcher (1919–2018)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1919-05-29"
deathDate: "2018-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.289855072463769
  historical:           6.540929333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Жене, Жак"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jacques Genest"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Genest"
    title: "Jacques Genest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Genest_(m%C3%A9decin)"
    title: "Jacques Genest (médecin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Genest"
    title: "Jacques Genest"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3158988"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump