Professor Jean-Louis Lefebvre MD, PhD

Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Lille

Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Centre Oscar Lambret, Lille, France

Jean-Louis Lefebvre, MD., Professor of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, was born on March 4, 1947 in France. He trained at Lille University (1963-1970) and in the ENT-HNS service of the University Hospital (1970-1974). He upheld in 1974 his thesis on "Supracricoid Laryngectomies". He got a position of senior resident both in the ENT-HNS service and in the Anatomy and Organogenesis Laboratory (1974 - 1976).

In 1976, he joined the Centre Oscar Lambret, the Northern France Comprehensive Cancer Center, and became Chief of the Department in 1994. He took the position of Deputy Director of the Center (1996 - 2001) and was elected as the President of its Medical Commission in 2003.

He chaired the EORTC HNC Group (1989 - 1998) and was member of the EORTC Board (1997-1999). He has been appointed as the Secretary General of the International Federation of Head and Neck Oncology Societies (2003-) and is chairing the Founding Board of the European Head and Neck Society (2003-). He is a member of 22 HN societies and is involved in 15 scientific journals. He got in 1995 the Special Recognition Award of the SHNS. He gave the Myers International Lecture at the AAO-HNS (1996) and the Hayes Martin Lecture at the AHNS (1999).

Professor Lefebvre has published 291 papers, abstracts and chapters, directed 59 theses in medicine, presented 142 oral presentations and gave 105 invited lectures throughout the world mainly on the topics of larynx surgery, organ preservation and clinical research.