IHPBA Distuinguished Service Award 2015: Professor Jacques Belghiti

The 2015 IHPBA Distinguished Service Medal has been awarded to
Professor Jacques Belghiti

Professor Belghiti was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1948. He graduated from the University of Medicine, Paris in 1974, qualified as a surgeon in 1980 and became a Professor of Surgery in 1988. He became a First Class surgeon in 1995, an Exceptional Class surgeon in 2008, and was further recognised with the honour of Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2003 and five years later, Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite. 

He was the Head of the HepatoBilioPancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplantation department in Beaujon Hospital, University of Paris, for 20 years, until 2014. In addition Professor Belghiti is the author of more than 70 book chapters and is co-editor of the highly acclaimed specialty reference book, Surgery of the Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreas edited by Blumgart. He is also a member of numerous editorial boards; international associations of surgery and, as an honorary member, many national societies including the prestigious American Surgical Association. In 2014 he was nominated by the President of France to the board of the High Authority for Health, where he chairs the evaluation committee of medical devices. He was recently appointed head of the selection committee for innovative devices. 

Several associations have benefitted from Professor Belghiti’s expertise including as chairman of the scientific committee of the IHPBA, president of E-AHPBA and president of the ILTS (International Liver Transplantation Society). He was responsible for the organisation of the ILTS World Congress in Paris in 2008, as well as the 10th World Congress of the IHPBA in Paris, which attracted over 3000 participants.

Professor Belghiti’s contributions to the science of HPB surgery have been enormous and include the fields of hepatocellular carcinoma and liver transplantation. He has produced important studies in the surgical techniques of liver resection and HPB surgical oncology. Not only is he one of the most imaginative surgeons involved in liver surgery, he is also one of the most active and rigorous researchers in liver transplantation. In addition to his academic and surgical prowess, Professor Belghiti is an exceptionally skilled, approachable and charismatic teacher.

Professor Belghiti has undoubtedly made an outstanding contribution not only to HPB surgery, but also to the IHPBA.

The award was presented at the E-AHPBA Congress 2015, Manchester, UK, on Wednesday 22nd April 2015 at the President's Dinner, held in the historic Manchester Town Hall.

 

 

The announcement will be included in the June edition of HPB:

 

 

 

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