About Dr. Girard

Marc GIRARD, MSc , MD After a first training leading to a MSc in mathematics (partial differential equations), Marc Girard became a MD in parallel of his research on mathematical modelling. He works on drugs mainly as a consultant for pharmaceutical firms, and also practices as a psychotherapist of Freudian obedience. Besides a number of scientific papers, he published also in literary criticism, esp. about Flaubert, Balzac, Zola as well as the Grimm’s tales. His experience as a drug specialist goes from the early phases of development (I, II and III) to late post-marketing, with a long standing interest in safety (monitoring of clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, pharmacoepidemiology): as early as in 1984, he was the first French author to publish a criticism on the methods used to assess the causality of drugs adverse reactions. He also has a long practice of co-operation with regulatory departments as well as marketing teams, including the redaction of a number of experts reports and medical writing (papers, brochures, proceedings). Before of being struck off the list of medical expert witnesses (mainly for having written scientific papers calling for a reappraisal of the benefit/risk ratio hepatitis B vaccination), he was commissioned by French Judges in a number of judicial litigations involving drugs (growth hormone, appetite suppressants, cerivastatine, vaccines…); in France, his papers published in judicial journals (about drug causality or defective products) have been appreciated by a number of lawyers and magistrates.   PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research in mathematic modelling: 1976-1982 Project leader in the pharmaceutical industry (R&D): 1982-1987 Independent consultant (clinical research, drug monitoring, pharmacoepidemiology): since 1988 Medical expert witness (Drug and biomedical research) Psychotherapist   MEMBERSHIPS Association Française de Psychiatrie Biologique Association of European Psychiatrists British Association for Psychopharmacology Royal Society of Medicine Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes Association of European Recognized Experts Editorial board of Medical Veritas.   AWARDS Silver Medal of Paris Medical University (1983) Depression Organon’s Award (1987)

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