Of Acremont Valerie

Biography

Valérie D'Acremont, a young clinic leader at the PMU, develops clinical practice guidelines for the management of febrile patients returning from a trip to the tropics and transforms them into an interactive algorithm on the Internet. In Tanzania, where she resides for three years, she implements in the pilot phase a rapid and very cheap test for malaria, which drastically reduces the inappropriate administration of antimalarials. To avoid over-prescribing of antibiotics in malaria-negative patients, she launched a large study on the causes of fever episodes, initially in children and then expanded to adults. The results of this study, published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, are worth to the infectiologist the Pfizer Prize in 2015. These lead him to develop a "magic tablet" (electronic algorithm) which allows doctors - guided during their ambulatory consultation - to make the right decisions. This tool is extremely effective because it drastically reduces the prescription of antibiotics while allowing faster cure of patients. It is in this orientation that it pursues its research, supported among others by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with two objectives: to improve patient management algorithms, for example by connecting sensors to the tablets, automatically integrate diagnostic parameters;

Research Interest

Prevalence of respiratory viruses among febrile children with or without acute respiratory symptoms in Tanzania. Reduction of anti-malarial consumption after rapid diagnostic tests implementation in Dar es Salaam: a before-after and cluster randomized controlled study.