Biography

• 1948: Born in Clermont
  Clermont-Ferrand
  Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census. It is the prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department...
  
  
• 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 old.
• 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 was the Lindbergh Operation
  Lindbergh Operation
  The Lindbergh Operation was a complete tele-surgical operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using telecommunications solutions based on high-speed services and sophisticated surgical robotics...
  
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• 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, he is believed to be 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 .