Alain-Jacques Valleron

Alain-Jacques Valleron (born 24 August 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine) is Professor Emeritus at the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University and a member of the French Academy of sciences, of which he was Delegate for Scientific Information and Communication. He is the founder of the "''Sentinel Network''".

He is a graduate of the École polytechnique (1963) and holds a PhD in Science.

He was a researcher at Inserm from 1966 to 1981. Professor of Biomathematics at the University of Paris 7 from 1981 to 1991, Professor of Biostatistics / Medical Informatics at the Pierre et marie Curie Faculty of Medicine from 1991 to 2013 and hospital practitioner at Saint-Antoine Hospital (Paris).

He was Director of the Biostatistics Laboratory at the University of Paris 7 (1974-1981), the Inserm Research Unit 263 "Biomathematics and Biostatistics" (1981-1995), the Cooperative Data Centre on the Epidemiology of Human Immunodeficiency (1988-1991), the Inserm Research Unit 444 "Epidemiology and Information Sciences" from 1995 to 2004. He was also in charge of the Public Health Unit at Saint Antoine Hospital in Paris from 1991 to 2000.

In 1974, he created the DEA (master 2) in Biomathematics, which was the first postgraduate scientific training preparing for research in all information sciences applied to biomedicine (biostatistics, modelling, medical informatics, bioinformatics, biomedical image analysis). From 1998 to 2010 he directed the Doctoral School of Public Health of the Universities Pierre and Marie Curie and Denis Diderot (ED 393) Provided by Wikipedia