Jean-jacques Parienti MD, PhD

Professor Jean-Jacques Parienti is a graduate of the University of Caen Normandy. He completed a Master's in Public Health at the University of Paris XI and a thesis in Biostatistics at the University Pierre-et-Marie-Curie. He obtained his qualification to direct research at the University of Caen Normandy. He had a teaching research position in infectious diseases and intensive care and did his internship in Preventive Medicine / Public Health at the University of Caen Normandy.

Professor Parienti specializes in Infectious Diseases, Hygiene, and Tropical Medicine, in general, preventive medicine, and in public health. His areas of research concern the epidemiology of adherence to HIV drug treatment, including the development of new methods to assess and support adherence, such as the Pills Identification Test; the adhesion-resistance relationship, and interventions to improve adhesion.

Other of his subjects of interest relate to infections developed in the hospital, ranging from the training of doctors and nurses to the critical evaluation of scientific articles. He is also interested in the methodology of clinical trials, and the design and teaching of innovative studies in biostatistics. Professor Parienti has published in the following journals: Clinical Infectious Diseases, AIDS, Journal of AIDS, PLoS ONE, BioMedCentral Methodology and Medical Research, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Critical Care, Intensive Care Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and JAMA.