Laparoscopic digestive surgeon and obesity surgeon practicing since 2009 at Seine Saint-Denis private Hospital (Le Blanc Mesnil) and at the Trocadero Clinic since 1997.
· Porte de Choisy Mutualiste Clinic assistant (1985-1986) (Paris, 13th district).
· Former hospitals of Paris’ intern (1978-1985).
· Department head and surgeon on the Flores island (Portugal) in 1980 (military service).
· Former manager and founder of the laparoscopic surgery unit at Bichat Hospital (1988-1997).
· Initiator of the hepatic and pancreatic transplant at Bichat hospital (1988-1992).
· Hepatic transplant internship at the Presbyterian Hospital (Pittsburgh, PA, USA).
· Member of the French Association for Obesity Surgery (SOFCO).
· Founding member of the French Association for Endoscopic Surgery (SFCE).
· Founding member of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES).
· Founding member of the Foundation for the Laparoscopic Surgery Development (FDCL): 40 French and Belgian pioneers, sources of the laparoscopic digestive surgery.
· Former president of the Paris Clinic Heads Union (1988-1990).
· Former national general secretary of Faculty Cities Clinic Heads (1988-1990).
· Organiser of the Congress for Interns and Clinic Heads in 1988 in Strasbourg (“The Europe of Health regarding the 1992’s large single European market vison”).
· Former general secretary assistant of the French Surgeons College (1990-1995) (French Surgeons Union).
