# Miles Lowell Edwards: person

Canonical ID: `2710df10-ec94-40be-ba31-f3033fcd4e8c`

Miles Lowell Edwards was an electrical engineer who founded Edwards Lifesciences in 1958 and invented the first medically proven and adopted artificial heart valve, the Starr-Edwards valve, implanted in 1960.

- **Verification posture:** reported

## Current roles (1)

- [Edwards Lifesciences](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/edwards-lifesciences.md) Founder (_reported, not verified_)

## Foundings (1)

- [Edwards Lifesciences](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/edwards-lifesciences.md) (cofounder) _no longer at company_

## Sources (1)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_Lifesciences


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