Biographical sketchs

Born in Courcelles (Charleroi), Belgium, January 1st, 1942..

Adresses:

• Office: Hôpital Robert-Debré, 48 Boulevard Sérurier, F-75019 PARIS, France.
  
•           Tel.: 33.1.40 03 47 73. Fax: 33.1.40 03 47 74.
  
• Home: 11 Villa Curial, Appt 6D, F-75019 PARIS, France. Tel.: 33.1.40 38 27 17.
  
• E-mail: philippe.evrard@rdb.ap-hop-paris.fr
  
• URL: http://www.pediatr-neurology.org (old address)
  
  

Main current appointments:

• Professor (First Class), Faculté de Médecine Xavier-Bichat (Université de Paris VII Denis-Diderot)
  
• Chief of Service, Pediatric Neurology and Metabolic Diseases, Hôpital Robert-Debré (Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris)
  
• Director of the Research Laboratory INSERM E9935 (Developmental Neurosciences)
  
• Correspondant of the Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique
  
• Honorary Professor, Université de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
  
• Member of the European Society for Pediatric Research [ESPR] 
  
• Founder, Board member, and former Secretary general, EPNS [European Pediatric Neurology Society]
  
• Board Member of the ICNA  [International Child Neurology Association]
  
  

Main research contributions:

• A new ontogenic and phylogenic neocortical unit.
  
• Mechanisms, disturbances and diseases of neuronal migration.
  
• New concepts and tools for "neuroprotection".
  
  

Awards:

• Mac Keith award (British Pediatric Neurology Association)
  
• Segawa award (Japanese Pediatric Neurology Society)
  
• Bengt Hagberg award (Swedish Pediatric Neurology Society)
  
• Alpha Omega Alpha, California Chapter, Loma Linda (U.S.A.)
  
• Michael J. Bresnan Visiting Professorship 2001, Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston.
  
  

• Formerly Visiting Professor, Harvard Medical School; formerly Visiting Pediatric Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; and formerly Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Fogarty, NIH),  Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  
• Formerly Visiting Scientist, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
  
• Formerly Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professor, Loma Linda, USA; Barrow Visiting Professor, Phoenix, AZ, USA
  
• Formerly Founder of the Pediatric Neurology Service, of the Research Laboratory in Developmental Neurosciences, and of the Chair of Pediatric Neurology, University of Louvain Medical School, Belgium, Formerly Full professor and formerly Chief of Service, University of Louvain Medical School and Hôpital Universitaire Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium
  
• Formerly President of the Scientific Council, Trustee, and member of the executive board, Office de la Naissance et de l'Enfance [ONE], Belgian public agency for Mothers and Children
  
• Past President, Société Européenne de Neurologie Pédiatrique.
  
• Past President, Belgian Pediatric Neurology Society
  
  

National Orders

• Commander, Ordre de la Couronne (Belgium)
  
• Commander, Merit order of Luxembourg)
  
• Officer, Ordre de Léopold (Belgium).