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AWARDS
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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