# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/selma-dritz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:46:26.686Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/selma-dritz"
name: "Selma Dritz"
slug: "selma-dritz"
description: "Selma Kaderman Dritz was an American physician and epidemiologist who worked in San Francisco, California, where she began tracking the first known cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the early 1980s."
tagline: "American medical doctor and epidemiologist (1917-2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Dritz.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-06-29"
deathDate: "2008-09-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.622572
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Selma Dritz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D9%89_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "سلمى دريتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Dritz"
    title: "Selma Dritz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Dritz"
    title: "Selma Dritz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Dritz"
    title: "Selma Dritz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Dritz"
    title: "Selma Dritz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Dritz"
    title: "Selma Dritz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%86%E0%B5%BD%E0%B4%AE_%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "സെൽമ ഡ്രിറ്റ്സ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4793621"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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