Jean Aicardi
{{short description|French pediatric neurologist and epileptologist}}
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| birth_place = Rambouillet, France
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| death_place = Paris, France
| nationality = French
| education = University of Paris
| occupation = Physician
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Jean (François Marie) Aicardi (8 November 1926 – 3 August 2015) was a French pediatric neurologist and epileptologist.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{{WhoNamedIt|doctor|152|Jean François Marie Aicardi}}[https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/jean-aicardi-n3wnckcknvn Jean Aicardi] 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.{{cite web |title=Epileptic Disorders Editors |url=https://www.ilae.org/journals/em-epileptic-disorders/em/editors |website=www.ilae.org |publisher=International League Against Epilepsy – ILAE |access-date=24 January 2021}}
Education and career
He obtained his M.D. degree from the Faculté de Médecine, Paris in 1955. He was a research fellow in Harvard Medical School from 1955 to 1956, and back in France he was an assistant physician at {{Lang|fr|Hôpital des Enfants Malades Paris|italic=no}} from 1957 to 1964, and an assistant physician 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 {{Lang|fr|Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale|italic=no}} (INSERM). From 1992 to 1998 he was Honorary Professor of Child Neurology at Institute of Child Health, London, UK.{{cite journal |last1=Krägeloh-Mann |first1=Ingeborg |title=Prof. Jean François Marie Aicardi (1926–2015) |journal=Neuropediatrics |date=4 November 2015 |volume=46 |issue=6 |pages=431–432 |doi=10.1055/s-0035-1566445 |pmid=26535874}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://icnapedia.org/explore/articles/news/entry/2015/08/04/professor-jean-francois-marie-aicardi-1926-2015|title=Professor Jean François Marie Aicardi (1926–2015)|author=ICNA|date=4 August 2015|work=ICNApedia|access-date=6 August 2015|archive-date=6 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806201241/http://icnapedia.org/explore/articles/news/entry/2015/08/04/professor-jean-francois-marie-aicardi-1926-2015|url-status=dead}} 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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Category:Knights of the Legion of Honour
Category:French people of Italian descent
Category:People from Rambouillet
Category:French epileptologists
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