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DESCRIPTION:Elazer R. Edelman (Professor in Medical Engineering and Science
  at MIT and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School)\n\n \n\nRecen
 t transformative advances in cardiovascular care are remarkable not only f
 or their dramatic impact on mortality and morbidity\, nor solely for the r
 apid expansion of technical innovation\, but for the way in which scientif
 ic insight and technological capability have continuously propelled one an
 other. Few areas illustrate this co-evolution more clearly than cardiovasc
 ular medicine\, where engineering principles have become inseparable from 
 biological discovery and clinical progress.\n\n \n\nParadoxically\, this t
 ight coupling between theory and application arrived relatively late in me
 dicine. The science of continuum dynamics—the study of how matter and en
 ergy deform\, flow\, and interact across space and time when treated as co
 ntinuous fields—was foundational to revolutions in physics and chemistry
  at the turn of the twentieth century\, and profoundly influenced art\, ar
 chitecture\, design\, philosophy\, and literature. Biology would follow\, 
 but medicine\, and cardiovascular medicine in particular\, only fully embr
 aced this framework decades later.\n\n \n\nOnce it did\, the consequences 
 were profound—especially for cardiovascular science and biomedical engin
 eering. As the heart came to be understood not merely as an assembly of co
 mponents or a syncytium of cells\, and blood vessels not as passive condui
 ts\, but rather as a coupled\, multiscale continuum with rich metabolic an
 d synthetic capacity\, innovation accelerated\, health outcomes improved\,
  and scientific understanding advanced at an unprecedented pace.\n\n \n\nT
 his talk will explore how viewing vascular and endothelial biology through
  a continuum lens has catalyzed new areas of biomedical science and engine
 ering\, enabling models\, devices\, technologies\, and therapeutic strateg
 ies that have reshaped cardiovascular medicine and human health in ways th
 at are difficult to parallel in any other field.\n\n \n\nElazer R. Edelman
  is Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at MIT\, and Professor of
  Medicine at Harvard Medical School\, and a cardiac intensive care unit ca
 rdiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). His research inter
 ests meld his medical and scientific training leveraging pathophysiologic 
 insight to improve clinical decision-making\, materials: tissue biology an
 d device design. More than 400 students and fellows have passed through Ed
 elman’s laboratory publishing over 900 scientific articles and 120 paten
 ts that have been the basis of many companies and clinical products.\n\n \
 n\nEdelman is fellow of American College of Cardiology\, American Heart As
 sociation\, Association of University Cardiologists\, American Society of 
 Clinical Investigation\, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engi
 neering\, American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, National Academy of Inve
 ntors\, National Academy of Medicine\, and National Academy of Engineering
 . As Chief Scientific Advisor of Science: Translational Medicine he has se
 t the tone for the national debate on translational research and innovatio
 n. As co-founder of ASTM F04.03 he helped create standards for cardiovascu
 lar implants. He served on FDA’s Science Board and as ORISE fellow FDA E
 IR. For bringing cardiovascular translational research to an international
  level of excellence the Spanish Parliament and King awarded Edelman the S
 panish Order of Civil Merit.
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LOCATION:Science and Engineering Complex (SEC)\, 4.307/308
SUMMARY:Continuum Dynamics Drove a Revolution in Cardiovascular Sciences & 
 Intervention
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/continuum-dynamics-drov
 e-a-revolution-in-cardiovascular-sciences-intervention
CATEGORIES:Colloquia / Seminar / Lecture
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