Olivier GOULET MD, PhD
University degrees
- 1979-80: Master in Human Genetics
- 1985 : Medical Doctor (ADELI 75/47885)
- 1985 : Doctor in Research in Human Biology
- 1989 : Master in Biology and Technology of Nutrition
- 1992 : PhD in Nutrition : University of Paris V – René Descartes
- 1995 : Professor of Pediatrics : University of Paris V – René Descartes
Hospital and University positions
- 1984-85 : Research Fellow in Gastroenterology and Nutrition at UCLA
- 1985-89 : Senior Registrar, Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital
- Since 1995 : Professor of Pediatrics : University of Paris - Descartes
- Co-Chairman of the program of Intestinal Transplantation at Necker-EM University Hospital > 1995
- Member of the Medical Council of the Hospital Necker-EM: 1998-2011
- Assistant of the Dean of the Necker University of Paris Descartes Medical School: 2000-2004
- Member of the Council of the Necker University of Paris Descartes Medical School: 2000-2004
- Chair: Pediatric Federation of the Hospital Necker-EM: 2004-2007
- Member of the Council of the University of Paris Descartes Medical School: 2008-2012
- Chair : Office for International Relationships at University of Paris Descartes Medical School: 2012-16
- Chair: National Reference Center for Rare Digestive Diseases at Necker-EM University Hospital > 2004
- Chairman of the European Master of Clinical Nutrition University Paris Descartes from 2005
- Chairman: Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Necker-EM > 2006
- Member of the French Ministry of Health Council for Home parenteral Nutrition from 2016
Functions in Scientific Societies
- Council : European Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (1997-2004)
- Member of the Committee of Nutrition of ESPGHAN : 1999-2008
Chairman of the Host Executive Committee of the 2° World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Paris (2000-2004)
- Member of the Council of the French Society of Pediatrics: 2005 - 2009
- Member of the Committee of Nutrition of the French Society of Pediatrics : 1995-2015
- Member of the Council: Federation of International Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (FISPGHAN) 2000-2016
- ESPGHAN Service Award 2017
Editorial and publications activities
- Senior Associate Editor Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (2000-2004)
- Associate Editor Pediatric Transplantation (1998-2004)
- Co-editor of Pediatric Nutrition Text Book (Chief Editor C.Ricour France) 1993
- Chief editor of Baillère’s Clinical Gastroenterology : Nutrition and digestive diseases 1998
- Co-editor of Pediatric Gastroenterology Text Book (Chief Edit A.Walker USA) edition 2004, 2008, 2017
- Chief editor of the Pediatric Feeding Text Book Doin Edition Paris, published 2002 and 2013
- Co-editor of Intestinal Failure Text Book (Chief Editor A.Langnas USA) from 2006
- Over 90 book and Text book chapters in French and english
- Over 368 papers referenced in Pub Med data base
- Web of Science : H38
Main interests and clinical research activities
- Immuno-pathology of the GI-tract (IPEX, inflammatory bowel diseases and intestinal Tx) with the pathology department (Pr T.Molina), INSERM U795 ( Dr N.Cerf-Bensussan, Institut IMAGINE)
- Genetic & cell biology of congenital disease of the intestinal epithelium development: collaboration with the pathology department (Pr N. Brousse), INSERM U781 Human Genetic group chaired by Pr S. Lyonnet; for cell biology, CNRS UMR7592, Institut Jacques Monod-University Paris Diderot ( F. Poirier).
- Clinical Nutrition :
- Tolerance and efficacy of intravenous fat emulsions
- Cohort’s follow up of patients with intestinal failure and intestinal transplantation
- Short bowel syndrome: physiology, hormonal treatment, and prognosis factors
- Home parenteral nutrition: prognosis factors, sepsis, taurolidine
- Intestinal microbiota and probiotics in clinical practice
Henkjan J. Verkade, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics,
Univ. Medical Center Groningen
The Netherlands
Henkjan J. Verkade is a pediatric gastro/hepatologist at the Beatrix Children’s Hospital of the University Medical Center Groningen. He studied medicine at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He received his PhD degree in Medicine cum laude at the University of Groningen on the thesis entitled "Lipid absorption and metabolism”. Henkjan Verkade was a post-doctoral fellow with Dennis E. Vance of the Lipid and Lipoprotein Research Group of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. His post-doc studies concentrated on assembly and secretion of Very Low Density Lipoproteins by the liver.
Henkjan Verkade combines clinical work in pediatric gastro/hepatology with clinical and fundamental research projects. Since 2016, he has been Chair of the Hepatology Committee and member of Council of the European Society Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition. He is a member of national and international professional associations and organizations, including American Association Study of Liver Diseases, Dutch Society for Transplantation, European Cystic Fibrosis Society, and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. His current research projects involve intestinal lipid absorption and metabolism, early life programming of long-term health, the enterohepatic circulation, and pediatric liver disease (biliary atresia, liver transplantation, familial cholestatic syndromes). He has (co-)authored more than 230 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of pediatric hepatology, nutrition, and gastro-intestinal physiology, and more than 15 book chapters. He has supervised 35 PhD students up till successful completion of their PhD thesis.