ESTRO 35 Programme book

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

JEAN-PIERRE GÉRARD Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice, France

Jean-Pierre Gérard graduated as a specialist in oncology in 1973 and worked with Prof Papillon in Centre Léon Bérard until 1979, when he was nominated Professor in the Lyon University for Oncology- Radiotherapy, and became head of the new department of Radiation Oncology in CHU Lyon-Sud. He moved to Nice to become Directeur Général of Centre Antoine Lacassagne in 2001. He was President of ESTRO between 1999 and 2000, and President of the French Radiation Oncology Society, SFRO, from 2004 to 2005. He was a visiting professor at the medical faculty in Alexandria, Egypt, in 2009, and in 2012 was awarded honorary Professorship at the Oncology University of Wuhan-Hubei, in China. Since 2013, he has been Professor Emeritus at the University of Nice – Consultant Centre Antoine-Lacassagne. Professor Jean-Pierre Gérard is presently clinically active in the field of rectal cancer where he is leading the OPERA phase III trial to test the role of contact x-ray brachytherapy for organ preservation. He is also involved in the development of the new Proteus one proton machine 230 Mev in Nice. He was awarded several French distinctions, such as the Palmes académiques: Chevalier in 1996 and Officier in 2001, the Médaille d’honneur du Service de Santé des Armées, in 1997, the Insignes de Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2004, and the Antoine Béclère medal in 2015.

Jean-Pierre Gérard

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