Jacques Marescaux
Biomedical engineering
Gecko Biomedical SAS
France
Biography
Jacques Marescaux is Professor of Surgery, Chairman of the Institute of Image-Guided Surgery (IHU Strasbourg) and President and Founder of IRCAD (1994) a uniquely structured institute advancing the field of surgery into the information era. In addition he founded the European Institute for Telesurgery (EITS) as a training facility to disseminate the groundbreaking work at IRCAD. Over the last 22 years this center has gained international acclaim by training more than 40,000 surgeons from 124 countries, and mirror IRCAD institutes have been created in Taiwan and Brazil. In 2000, the IRCAD-EITS implemented a Virtual online University, WeBSurg, available in 6 different languages.
Research Interest
Surgery, clinical sciences
