Maurice Giroud MD, PhD

Maurice Giroud, University Professor – Hospital Practitioner, has held the responsibilities of Head of the Neurology Department since 2001 and Head of the Neurosciences Pole since 2011 at the Dijon-Bourgogne University Hospital. It is very involved in helping professionals affected by strokes, by bringing them together in the Bourgogne-AVC Network labeled by the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Burgundy since 2003, and in helping patients and caregivers. , by regularly leading meetings for the general public in the 4 departments of the region.

Maurice Giroud has devoted most of his research to stroke, nourished by his clinical activity, by creating in 1985, the 1stPopulation Registry in France collecting and providing comprehensive, specific, and continuous monitoring of strokes occurring in the population of the city of Dijon. It was thus able to produce the only data available on the epidemiology of strokes in France, having resulted in the publication of more than 300 articles. He completed his research work by participating in numerous therapeutic evaluation trials. He is responsible for the Dijon site of the Etude des 3 Cités (Bordeaux, Montpellier, Dijon), studying the risk of stroke and dementia on 5000 participants, and of the Equipe d'Accueil 4184 of the University of Burgundy " Population Epidemiology Center” since 2007. His cumulative SIGAPS points from 2011 to 2014 are 999.

Maurice is a member of the French Neuro-Vascular Society, which he chaired from 2002 to 2004, of the European Stroke Conference, of the European Academy of Neurology, and of the International Society of Neurology and Epidemiology. He assumed numerous administrative responsibilities, becoming Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institut de Veille Sanitaire under 2 terms of office from 2005 to 2010, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Dijon from 2000 to 2005, President of the Sub-Section of Neurology at the National Council of Universities from 2007 to 2010, President of the College of Neurology Teachers from 2012 to 2014, Member of the Steering Committee at the Ministry of Health and at the ARS of Burgundy to participate in the drafting of the Stroke Plan and the Telestroke Plan in 2010 and 2012. He has received several distinctions, including the title of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 2007 and the 1st Prize for the Victoires de la Médecine in 2010.