Upcoming "Pasteur Medicine Quarter-Hour" surgery special on September 30

Every month, the Center for Translational Science runs a "Pasteur Medicine Quarter-Hour" session, where two doctors are invited to give a brief presentation to Institut Pasteur scientists on the diseases they are involved in treating. The doctors start by outlining one or more clinical cases, then provide a short description of the disease and conclude by looking at a series of unanswered questions that need to be addressed.

The next session will take place on Wednesday September 30 at 5.30pm in the François Jacob auditorium. You can also follow online on Teams via this link.

Program:

• New technologies in surgery, mini-invasive surgery – Dominique Franco (Institut Pasteur)

• Obesity surgery – Guillaume Pourcher (Institut Mutualiste Montsouris)

Surgeons were only equipped with forceps and scalpels in the past. Today it is assisted by robots, uses modeling, or even virtual or augmented reality. Surgery is also much less traumatic with the development of minimally invasive surgery and sometimes does not even require hospitalization. Surgeons have always created a link between medicine and science by giving researchers access to human tissue. Over the years, their place has been strengthened and is today an integral part of the medical and scientific community.

Come and discover surgery from yesterday to today with two surgeons:

Dominique Franco, former head of the hepatic surgery and transplantation department at Antoine Béclère hospital, had made a significant contribution to the development of minimally invasive and outpatient liver surgery. Following his hospital-university career, he was the first digital education director at the Institut Pasteur from 2014 to 2020.

 

 

Guillaume Pourcher specializes in digestive, ontological, and metabolic surgery. Currently head of the obesity center at the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, where he has developed minimally invasive surgery since 2010.

 

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