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Professor Gérard Saillant

Gérard Saillant is a Professor of orthopaedic surgery based at the Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. He is formally the chairman of the orthopaedic surgery department of the Hospital where his specialist areas included spine surgery, sports injuries, road traffic injuries and traumatology. He is also ex Dean of the medical university of Pitié Salpêtrière Paris VI.

Mr Saillant is President of the Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord Disorders (ICM) which is housed in the CHU Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. The ICM is a project aimed at creating an international centre of research and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders and especially brain and spinal cord trauma.