Jean Aicardi
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Jean (François Marie) Aicardi (8 November 1926 – 3 August 2015) was a French pediatric neurologist and epileptologist.[1][2][3] He was known as one of the most distinguished and respected neuropediatricians of his time. He, along with Alexis Arzimanoglou, created the journal Epileptic Disorders in 1999.[4]
Education and career
He obtained his M.D. degree from the Faculté de Médecine, Paris in 1955. He was a research fellow at Harvard Medical School from 1955 to 1956. Upon returning to France, he served as an assistant physician at Script error: No such module "Lang". from 1957 to 1964, and at Hôpital Saint-Vincent de Paul from 1974 to 1979. He was also Maître de Recherche from 1969 to 1986 and Directeur de Recherche from 1986 to 1991 at Script error: No such module "Lang". (INSERM). From 1992 to 1998, he was Honorary Professor of Child Neurology at the Institute of Child Health in London, UK.[5]
Recognition
He received many academic honours and distinctions, including:
- Ambassador for Epilepsy (International League Against Epilepsy and International Bureau for Epilepsy, 1978)
- Lifetime Achievement Award (International League Against Epilepsy and International Bureau for Epilepsy, 2009)
- Cornelia de Lange Medallion (Dutch Child Neurology Society)
- Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (London)
- Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
- Hower Award (US Child Neurology Society)
- Distinguished Investigator award (American Epilepsy Society and Milken Family Foundation), 1995
- Honorary Member American Neurological Association
- Ramon y Cajal Award (Iberoamerican Academy of Child Neurology)
- Peter Emil Becker Award (German Child Neurology Society)
- Honored Guest at the XXth Cleveland Clinic Meeting, Cleveland USA, 2002
- Honorary Member, European Paediatric Society, Göteborg, Sweden 2005
Bibliography
He was author or coauthor of many outstanding textbooks, including:
- Epilepsy in children, 1st edition 1986, 2nd edition 1994, (Mac Keith Press and Cambridge University Press) 3rd edition (with Arzimanoglou and Guerrini) 2003, Philadelphia, Lippincott
- Diseases of the nervous system in childhood, 1st edition in 1992, 3rd edition 2009
- Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (International Review of Child Neurology Series). New York, Raven Press 1994 (Editor, with F. Andermann and F. Vigevano)
- Epilepsy. A Comprehensive Textbook Edited by J. Engel Jr & T.A. Pedley 1998, 2nd edition 2008 (associate editor with M. Dichter, U. Heinemann, S. Moshé, R. Porter & D. Taylor)
- Movement Disorders in Children (with E. Fernandez Alvarez), 2001, London, Mac Keith Press
- Movement Disorders and Epilepsy in Children 2002 (Editor, with R. Guerrini, F. Andermann, and M. Hallett)
- He has authored more than 260 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 110 chapters in books.
- He also described several neurodegenerative diseases of childhood and two disease were named after him – Aicardi syndrome and Aicardi–Goutières syndrome.[6] Aicardi syndrome affects only females, and in very rare cases, males with Klinefelter syndrome.
He was editor-in-chief (1994–2004) and founding editor of the journal Epileptic Disorders and a member of the editorial boards and a reviewer of other journals, including Neuropediatrics, Brain and Development, Pediatric Neurology, Journal of Child Neurology, Epilepsia, Lancet Neurology and Brain.
References
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- ↑ Goutières F. Jean Aicardi. In: Arzimanoglou A, Goutières F, eds. Trends in Child Neurology. A Festschrift for Jean Aicardi. Montrouge, J. Libbey Eurotext 1986: 1–6
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