On October 19, 2018, Professor Jacques Marescaux was extremely happy to welcome Mr Bob White, Executive Vice-President and President of Minimally Invasive Therapies Group (MITG), Medtronic US and Mr Arnaud Delhaye, Vice President of Minimally Invasive Therapies Group (MITG), Medtronic Europe at IRCAD & IHU Strasbourg.
On June 19, 2018, Professor Jacques Marescaux welcomed Mr. Daniel Kablan Duncan, Vice-President of the Ivory Coast Republic, accompanied by a delegation of 30 representatives, including Mr. Alain-Richard Donwahi, Water Affairs and Forestry Minister, Mr. Souleymane Diarassouba, Minister of Trade, Handicrafts and SME Promotion, Acting Minister of Industry and Mines, Dr. Edith Clarisse Kouassy, Health Deputy Director General of the [...]
On June 10, 2018, Professor Jacques MARESCAUX, President of IRCAD, and Mr. Min Ho Huang, President of Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital and Founder of IRCAD Taiwan, celebrated with splendor the tenth anniversary of IRCAD Taiwan, the first offshoot of the Strasbourg Institute overseas, in the presence of Mr. William Lai, Prime Minister of Taiwan, Mr. Benoît Guidée, Director [...]
The Research Institute Against Digestive Cancer (IRCAD) has been awarded re-accreditation as a Comprehensive Education Institute for its training courses in minimally invasive surgery organized in Strasbourg, France. The Institute successfully met the Standards and Criteria of the American College of Surgeons’ Program for Accreditation of Education Institutes (AEI). It remains the first French academic training center in minimal access [...]
On Tuesday, March 6, 2018, Professor Jacques Marescaux was awarded the rank of Commander of the Chilean Order of Bernardo O’Higgins at the Chilean Embassy in Paris, in the presence of Mrs Michèle Barzach, former French Minister of Health, and Mr Fernando Quintana, Honorary Consul of Chile in Strasbourg. This distinction was officially awarded by Mrs Marcia Covarrubias, Ambassador of [...]
In partnership with IRCAD Taiwan, Mr. Liang-Gee Chen, Minister of Science and Technology, and Mr. Fong-Chin Su, Vice Minister of Science and Technology, organized a symposium on the “Future of Surgery” in Taipei, on February 5, 2018. On this very occasion, they highlighted the spectacular advances achieved by IRCAD in the field of surgical innovation. The IRCAD had invited Karl [...]
On Friday, December 1st, 2017, IRCAD had the privilege of welcoming Gérard Collomb, French State Minister and Minister of Home Affairs, during the “Conférence des métropoles”, which brought together representatives of France’s largest cities in the Charles Lindbergh Auditorium at IRCAD. Ninety-six presidents of French metropolises and of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) took an active part in [...]
On Friday, July 21, Prof. Marescaux had the pleasure to meet President Paul Kagame in the framework of his visit in Rwanda. During their talk, President Kagame expressed his will to open a IRCAD mirror Institute in Kigali for the development of minimally invasive surgery in Africa. This exciting project inspires all IRCAD teams to share IRCAD knowledge in the [...]
On Saturday, July 15, Professor Jacques Marescaux gave a conference in Beirut, on the history of IRCAD and artificial intelligence applied to surgery, at the 8th Annual Medical Congress of the French-Lebanese Medical Association. Two IHU representatives took part in this prestigious scientific gathering: Professor Arnold Munnich, President of Imagine, an institute which aims to improve the genetic diagnosis of [...]
IRCAD has been honoured to welcome a delegation from Jinan (China) including Mr. Duanwu ZHANG, Director of the Management Committee at Jinan International Medical Science Center, Secretary of the party working committee, Mr. Ji ZHANG, Director of the Jinan Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Secretary of the party committee, Mr. Lingbing KONG, Deputy director of the Jinan Foreign Affairs.
On Friday June 30, IRCAD inaugurated a new training and research center in Rio de Janeiro, connected to the gigantic Americas Medical City hospital complex, in the presence of IRCAD expert surgeons and industrial partners. This third international IRCAD center came to be thanks to the partnership signed in January 2016 with Dr. Edson de Godoy Bueno, President and Managing [...]
On June 22, 2017, Group picture with Prof Marescaux and Prof Yang’s residents from Seoul taken at the end of the plenary conference.