Jacques Marescaux

Jacques Marescaux (born August 8, 1948 in Clermont) is a french doctor of international renown. He is Chairman of the digestive and endocrine surgery at University Hospital, Strasbourg.

Biography

 * 1971: Major in the contest for the Internat
 * 1977 : Doctor in surgery
 * 1980 : He obtained a chair professor at the Universities digestive surgery. He was only 33 years.
 * 1989 - 1992 : Director of special education Visceral surgery at the Medical School of Strasbourg.
 * 1989 - 1992 : Vice President of the regional council of the Inserm.
 * Since 1989: Head of digestive and endocrine surgery University Hospitals of Strasbourg.
 * Since 1994: Founding Director of the IRCAD and the EITS
 * On September 7, 2001, he made New York a world first in TeleSurgery operating in the gallbladder of a patient who was in Strasbourg. This is the Operation Lindbergh.
 * Since 2002: Founding member of WeBSurg
 * In March 2005, he participated, with prestigious colleagues: Pierre Chambon, Jean-Marie Lehn, Pascal Neuville and Charles Woler, the draft pole of competitiveness "Innovation Therapeutics", in the context of Alsace BioValley.
 * On April 2, 2007, it is also chirugien the first in the world to operate a person without leaving a scar, removing the gallbladder of a patient older than 30 years without making incision of the skin and through a natural orifice.

Jacques Marescaux