Gerald Raverot MD, PhD

Gérald Raverot is a professor of Endocrinology at Lyon University Hospital and Lyon1 University, France. He is joint in-charge (with Prof Emmanuel Jouanneau, neurosurgeons) of the Pituitary Center, Lyon. He received his medical training at the Lyon 1 University and his endocrinology certification after his residency training in Lyon Hospitals from 1996 to 2002. He did post-doctoral training at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, between 2002 & 2004 in Pr Larry Jameson's Lab.

He leads a research team dedicated to “Pathophysiology of pituitary tumor” at the INSERM Research Center. His major research interests are pituitary tumor pathogenesis and identification of markers of aggressiveness allowing the identification of potential new therapies. He is the Chair of the European Task Force on aggressive pituitary tumors and he participates to the organization of EUROPIT, a European multidisciplinary course on Pituitary Tumors.