Robert Debré
Robert Debré · Science & Medicine
Founder of modern French paediatrics and architect of the 1958 teaching-hospital (CHU) reform
7 décembre 1882, Sedan, France — 29 avril 1978, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Sedan, Paris
Robert Debré is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Founder of modern French paediatrics and architect of the 1958 teaching-hospital (CHU) reform
Origins and early life
Robert Debré was born on 7 December 1882 in Sedan, the son of Simon Debré, a rabbi from an Alsatian line who chose France after the war of 1870 and became the rabbi of Neuilly.
Work and career
He turned to medicine and became, in the words of the academician Jean Bernard, the greatest paediatrician of his time: a pioneer of vaccination against diphtheria, a builder of children's medicine as a full scientific discipline, and a teacher who formed generations of French clinicians. Under the Occupation, targeted by the anti-Jewish statutes, he joined the Resistance and kept secret contact with the networks of Free France.
After the war he conceived and drove the 1958 reform that created France's teaching hospitals, the CHU, welding care, teaching and research into one institution — the frame of French medicine to this day. The Robert-Debré hospital in Paris, the country's largest paediatric hospital, bears his name. His son Michel Debré became Prime Minister of France; Robert died on 29 April 1978, at ninety-five.
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Founder of modern French paediatrics and architect of the 1958 teaching-hospital (CHU) reform
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Debré
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