Specialist in interventional radiology in digestive pathology, he was appointed full professor at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM) of UNIL and Chief Physician of the Radiology and Interventional Radiology Department of the CHUV as of January 1, 2010. He is a internationally recognized expert in his field and member of the editorial board of several journals in his specialty. After his medical studies at the University of Paris V Hôpital Cochin-Port Royal, he specialized in radiology and successively obtained a research master’s degree (1991) and a specialist’s diploma (1993) in medical imaging. His doctoral thesis won him the silver medal of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris VII, then that of the Internat des Hôpitaux de Paris. Then he flew to Canada for a year as a clinical research resident in the Radiology Department at St-Luc Hospital in Montreal. Back in France in 1994, he was appointed head of clinic, then senior doctor in the Radiology Department of the Beaujon Hospital of the Hospitals of Paris, where he obtained the Habilitation to Direct Research (HDR) with congratulations from the Jury (University Paris VII). After working for five years at the Beaujon Hospital, he joined the CHUV in Lausanne as an associate doctor in the Department of radiodiagnostics and interventional radiology. In 2001 he became a privat-docent and assistant doctor responsible for digestive imaging and interventional radiology, then in 2002 as associate professor. His research focuses on discovering new local and regional treatments for liver cancer from animal models. His work was recently awarded by the American Society for Interventional Radiology (best scientific paper in 2014) and the European Society in 2015 (CIRSE award for excellence in innovation an research) (Texas).
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