Orthopaedic surgeon
Abu Dhabi, since 2015
Croix-Rousse Hospital, 1996-2017
- Anterior cruciate ligament
- Knee osteotomies
- Knee replacement and revision
- Patellar instability
- President of ISAKOS (2015-2017)
- President of the ACL Study Group (2014-2016)
- John Joyce Award (1989)
- Lifetime Achievement, Patellofemoral Foundation (2015)
- Honorary member of 7 foreign societies
Operate, research, publish, innovate. Forty years, articulated.
Croix-Rousse

2017Head of department, Albert Trillat Centre, Hospices Civils de Lyon.


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Lyon 2015President of the world society, at a congress of more than 4,000 surgeons.

Columbus
KobeVisiting professor, 2013.
1957
Lyon
[Biography]
Trained by the founders of the Lyon school of knee surgery, Albert Trillat and Henri Dejour, he went on to lead it and carry it around the world. Since 2025 he has chaired the board of the Journal of ISAKOS, and he still operates, in Lyon.
None of this would have been possible without his wife and a whole family. They built this career together.
Honorary member of the Peruvian, German, Portuguese, Chilean, Turkish and Mexican societies, and of the AOSSM. Co-founder of Orthopaedic Studio in 2021, he led the design and writing of its sixteen patient booklets.

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Library
Books
- 2020Surgery of the Knee, 2nd editionSpringer, with C. Butcher and G. Demey
- 2014Surgery of the KneeSpringer, with G. Demey
- 2012Traité de chirurgie du genouElsevier Masson, with G. Demey, foreword by Werner Müller, in French
- 2012Prothèses partielles de genouElsevier Masson, with S. Lustig, in French
- 2006Chirurgie du genou : my knee practiceMasson, with P. Verdonk and T. Aït Si Selmi, in French
- 2004Ligaments croisés du genouSOFCOT teaching monographs, in French
- 2002Le genou du sportifProceedings of the 10th Lyon Knee Days, with P. Chambat and M. Bonnin, in French
Patient booklets
Sixteen booklets that guide patients before and after surgery, in French. He led their design and writing for Orthopaedic Studio.
- Ma prothèse de genou et moi
- Mon LCA et moi
- Mon ménisque et moi
- Ma rotule et moi
- Mon ostéotomie et moi
- Mon hallux valgus et moi
- Ma colonne vertébrale et moi
- Mon arthroscopie de hanche et moi
- Ma prothèse totale d'épaule et moi
- Ma prothèse totale de hanche
- Ma coiffe des rotateurs et moi
- Ma hernie discale et moi
- Mon instabilité d'épaule et moi
- Mon entorse de cheville et moi
- Mon tendon d'Achille et moi
- Mon Everest et moi
Research
- 1993-2026More than 500 articlesIncluding about 220 indexed in PubMed. Read them on PubMed
- 2001IKDC scoreCo-author of the questionnaire that became the global standard for knee assessment
- 1997-2021Eight patent familiesImplants, osteotomy plate, instrumentation, post-operative protection