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Medical pioneer a cut above the rest
By Wang Wen (China Daily)
Updated: 2010-05-05 08:14
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 Luc Picard,73, is a Frenchman who has trained more than 10 Chinese doctors. |
Among the 1,241 model workers in Beijing in 2010, two men stand out because they are expatriates working in the capital.
One of them, Dr Luc Picard, who has visited China 15 times since 1977 to perform operations, lecture and train other doctors, is a key medical expert and a helper extraordinaire.
The 73-year-old Frenchman is a founder of interventional neuroradiology and life honorary president of the World Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology.
He was cited for bringing to China the most advanced methodology and techniques for interventional neuroradiology, beginning in the 1970s. That discipline involves minimally invasive image-based technologies and procedures used in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the head, neck and spine.
Picard is emeritus professor at the Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University now and has trained more than 10 Chinese doctors.
"He wants to train more Chinese doctors on interventional neuroradiology and spends much of his energy on building up the subject in China," said one of his former students, Ling Feng, director of neurosurgery at the university.
Picard is also a senior consultant for GE Healthcare, which is among the biggest medical imaging equipment manufacturers.
He helped GE Healthcare move its research and development center to Beijing in 2009.
However, the center is just his first step in building a medical equipment research and production center in Beijing; he also plans to build a training center for interventional neuroradiology operations in Beijing this year.
