ECP 2019 Final Programme

10 ECP 2019 · Nice Keynote Speakers e Pierre Bedossa (France) Pierre Bedossa is Professor of Pathology. After medical school at Paris University, he moved to University of California, San Diego for a post-doctoral fellowship on molecular pathology of fibrosis. Back in Paris, he was nominated full professor and director of the department of pathology at Paris-Sud universi- ty. Then, he served as Head of the Department of Pathology, Physiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging at the academic hospitals of Paris Nord-Val de Seine, France and was chair- man of the Department of Pathology at Beaujon Hospital, Clichy, France. During that time, he led a research group at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) then at INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et Recherche en médicine) focusing on pathophysiology of liver diseases and colla- borated with several research teams around the world to whom he provided expertise in the field of experimental and clinical liver pathology. He served European Society of Pathology as a member of the executive committee and then had the honor to be nominated President of ESP (2015–2017). Pierre Bedossa is the leader of several national or European liver pathology consortium and is central pathologist for major international clinical trials in non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases. In 2018, he founded LIVERPAT, a company providing consultancy in Liver Pathology and he is actually Visiting Professor at the Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, UK. Pierre Bedossa published 430 articles in international peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals and 16 Book Chapters.