Name:

COUETIL Jean-Paul, Julien, René

Address:

217, rue de Bercy - 75012 PARIS

Telephone:

0033 1 43 41 17 58  (personal)

0033 1 6 07 95 22 95 (mobile)

0033 1 40 25 67 01 (secretary)

jean-paul.couetil@bch.ap-hop-paris.fr

Birth Date:

14^th May 1954

Nationality:

French

1979

Post Graduate Examination For Surgery Training

1972-79

Medical School, University Hospital of Caen, France

1972

Secondary School Exit Examination. Honours

1999

Professor of Cardiac Surgery and Thoracic Surgery.

1999

Qualified to direct research (University of Paris, national qualification).

1993

Diploma in Higher Surgical Science. Option : Organ Transplantation (University of Paris). Honours.

1991

Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon (1^st place in National Surgical Examination).

Certificate in Vascular Surgery (Medical School of Paris).

1985

Specialist Certificate in General Statistics (University of Paris).

1985

Certificate in General Surgery (Medical School of Rouen-Caen).

1985

Certificate in Micro-Surgery and Experimental Surgery (Medical School of Rouen-Caen). Honours.

1984

Medical Doctor. Thesis presented at the Medical School of Caen : “ Aortic Coarctation in infants under the age of six months ”. Honours.

2002

Head and Chairman of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Department B, Bichat Hospital, Paris.

2001

Staff Consultant  Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Bichat Hospital, Paris.

2001

Director of Cardiopulmonary and Pulmonary Transplantation

Program, European Georges Pompidou Hospital, Paris.

1991 - 2000

Staff Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Broussais Hospital, Paris.

1989 - 2000

Director of Cardiopulmonary and Pulmonary Transplantation

Program, Broussais Hospital, Paris.

1990

Staff Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Broussais Hospital, Paris, France.

1988

Senior Registrar at Cambridge, Cardiothoracic Surgery and Thoracic Transplant Center, Papworth Hospital, England.

1989

Registrar and Senior Registrar, Cardiothoracic Surgery at Broussais

1985 - 1987

 Hospital, Paris, France.

1984 -1985

Intern (senior house officer), Cardiothoracic Surgery  at Laennec Hospital, Paris, France (6 months) and La Pitié - Salpétrière Hospital (6 months) Paris, France.

1980 - 1984

Intern (senior house officer) at Caen University Hospital, France.

6 months Pediatric Surgery, 1 year General Surgery, 6 months Orthopedic Surgery, 1 year Cardiothoracic and Vascular  Surgery

1975 - 1980

Junior Medical Staff at Caen University Hospital, France

1997

Honorary Member of the Chilian Transplant and Cardiovascular Surgical Society

1997

Honorary Member of The Argentinian Pneumologia Society

1997

Henri Mondor Laureate Prize of the Science Academy of Paris.

1985

Gold Medal of Caen Internat.

1. Italy (Bergamo)

1992 : Implementation of Cardiothoracic Transplantation Program Realisation of the 1^st heart - lung transplantation in Italy.

2. Algeria (Algiers)

1986 : Implementation of Cardiac Valve Surgery.

3. Vietnam (Saigon)

1993 : Implementation of Cardiac Valve Surgery.

4. Morocco (Rabbat)

1996 : Implementation of Cardiac Valve Surgery.

Demonstration of the new Surgical Technique of The Modified Ross Operation (Couetil Procedure).

1997 : Assistance in realisation of the 1^st cardiac transplant in Morocco, Rabbat.

5. Lebanon (Beyrouth)

Since 1992 : Implementation of Cardiac Valve Surgery

1997  : Realisation of the 1^st living lung transplantation in Lebanon.

6. Middle East Countries

2000 : Implementation of Cardiac Valve Surgery.

Teaching of Mitral Valve Repair Techniques

7. Eastern European Countries (Poland, Czech Republic)

2002 : Implementation of Cardiac Valve Surgery

Teaching of Mitral Valve Repair Techniques

Past :

1992 - 1993

(CRC 931001)

(AFLM Funding)

Personal Research : Development of the technique of lung partition for lobar lung transplantation.

1994

Personal Research : Development of modified Ross operation

(autologous monocusp for reconstruction of the RVOT)

1994 - 1995

(GENTIAE, FDA)

Multicentric randomized study with ACADESINE, phase III,

trial study (advanced cardioplegia for coronary bypass)

1997 - 1999

Randomized European multicentric study on immuno-

suppression for lung transplantation. (photochemotherapy for

treatment of acute rejection)

Present :

1999 -

(essay #M55006)

Randomized European open multicentric essay in immunosupressive

therapy (cellcept vs Azathioprine)

1999 - 2000

Minimally invasive cardiac surgery, clinical application in mitral surgery.

2002 - (MCRI, PI)

Mechanical bileaflet ON-X valve trial.

Pending Study

(GENTIAE, FDA)

New multicentric randomized study with ACADESINE (phase IIIb trial

study).

1999

Guest reviewer for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery.

2000

Guest reviewer for the New England Journal of Medecine.

2000

Guest reviewer for the Internal Medecine Journal.

2000

Guest reviewer for The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

2000 -

Chief Editor of the Journal “Le Courrier de la Transplantation”.

2001 -

GENZYME Company, USA.

2001 -

EDWARDS Laboratories, USA.

2002 -

MCRI Company, USA.

1991 - 1996

INSERM Laboratory # U.256, Broussais Hospital, Paris, France

Fluids Dynamics - Activation of cardio-myocytes.

1997 -

INSERM Laboratory # U.314, Reims, France.

Inflammatory process in cystic fibrosis.

1998 -

INSERM Laboratory # U.485, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France. Cellular Pharmacology Unit.

Research on pulmonary endothelium of microvessels.

2000 -

INSERM Laboratory # U.460, Bichat Hospital, Paris, France.

Research on cardiac valves (metalloprotease) and cellular transplantation in infarcted myocardium.

2002 -

INSERM Laboratory # U.E0213, Trousseau Hospital, Paris, France.

Research on Molecular Biology in lung diseases.

1990

First heart-lung and liver transplantation in France

1993

The technique of lung partitioning and its clinical application, 1^st world operation.

1996

Reconstruction of the RVOT in the Ross operation by an autologus monocusp valve.

1986

New sternal retractor (France, patent # 8607624, USA patent #4829985).

1993

New mechanical valve (France, patent # 9309978)

1997

New sternal retractor (France, patent # 9701206, European patent in progress).

1989 -

French Thoracic and Cardiovascular Society

1989 -

European Society for Heart Transplantation

1989 -

French Society for Transplantation in Cystic Fibrosis

1990 -

International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation

2000 -

European Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery