Elazer Edelman

How do we bridge the gap in medical innovation?

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About Elazer Edelman

Elazer R. Edelman holds faculty appointments at MIT where he directs the Biomedical Engineering Center and Harvard Medical School where he serves as Senior Attending Physician in the Brigham and Women's Hospital Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. His research combines his scientific and medical training using controlled drug delivery, growth factor biochemistry, tissue engineering, biomaterials-tissue interactions, and continuum mechanics to examine the mechanisms of tissue repair.

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Does having an MD or PhD lead to medical innovation? Doctor and biomedical entrepreneur Elazer Edelman shares the hidden risks in assuming more knowledge is better knowledge.

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