Edward M. Hundert is the Daniel D. Federman Professor in Residence of Global Health and Social Medicine and Medical Education at Harvard Medical School,[2] where he is also Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at HMS.

[3] Born in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, Hundert graduated from Yale University in 1978 with a degree in mathematics and the history of science and medicine.

He attended Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, earning a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics in 1980.

in 1984 from Harvard Medical School, where he remained to do his residency training in psychiatry at McLean Hospital.

Following residency training, he was appointed Director of Postgraduate and Continuing Medical Education at McLean Hospital and became involved in the development of the Harvard's New Pathway Curriculum.