Bruno Falissard
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Bruno Falissard | |
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| Born | 17 October 1961 |
| Occupations | psychiatrist, and academic |
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| Alma mater | Ecole Polytechnique, Paris University of Paris XI |
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| Institutions | Paris-Saclay Medical University |
Bruno Falissard is a French psychiatrist, and academic. He is a professor of Biostatistics at Paris-Saclay Medical University, the Director of the CESP (INSERM centre for research in epidemiology and population health), and the former President of the IACAPAP (International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions).[1]
Falissard has published over 340 articles.[2] His research primarily focuses on drug evaluation, evaluation of unconventional care, epistemology and research methodology in medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience. He is also the author of 5 books entitled, Comprendre et utiliser les statistiques dans les sciences de la vie, Cerveau et psychanalyse: tentative de reconciliation, Mesurer la subjectivité en santé: perspective méthodologique et statistique, Analysis of Questionnaire Data with R. and Soigner la souffrance psychique des enfants.[3]
Falissard is a member of the French Academy of Medicine, and is associated with the committees of several professional organisations across the globe. He served as co-editor of the European Journal of Epidemiology,[4] of European Child Adolescent Psychiatry[5] and as member of the advisory board of the International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research.
Following his initial training in mathematics and fundamental physics at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris from 1982 to 1985, Falissard pursued his medical studies at the University of Paris XI. He completed his residency in Psychiatry from 1992 to 1996. His Ph.D. degree was in biostatistics, and his postdoctoral work focused on psychometrics and exploratory multivariate methods.[6]
Career
Falissard started his academic career as an Assistant Professor in child and adolescent psychiatry in 1996, and was promoted to Associate Professor in Public Health in 1997, and became a full Professor in Public Health from 2002. Currently, he also serves as the Head of the Center of Epidemiology and Population Health.[7]
Falissard served as the President of the French Biometrics Society from 1999 to 2001, as Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Paris-Sud Faculty of Medicine from 2001 to 2004, and as Chairman of the Autism Committee of the Fondation de France from 2007 to 2009. He has been serving as the President of the scientific council of the OFDT (French observatory for drugs and drug addiction) from 2012 till 2022, as a member of National Academy of Medicine since 2015, and as a President of IACAPAP (International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied) from 2015 to 2018.[7]
