Francine Leca
Francine Leca | |
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| Born | May 20, 1938 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Title | Professor of Medicine specializing in cardiac surgery |
Francine Leca (born on 20 May 1938) is a French cardiac surgeon and professor of medicine specializing in heart surgery, a pioneer of the discipline in pediatrics.
Biography[edit]
Francine Leca gravitated toward medicine at a very young age. During an internship in cardiac surgery under professor Jean Mathey at Laennec Hospital, she assisted her first open heart surgery. As an intern at hôpitaux de Paris, she discovered pediatric cardiac surgery under Professor George Lemoine. She went on to specialize in congenital heart defects.[1]
She was the first woman to become a cardiac surgeon in France,[2] and was the chief of services of cardiac surgery, first at Laennec Hospital and then Necker (Paris) until 2003.
In 1996 Leca along with Patrice Roynette founded the organization Mécénat Chirurgie cardiaque - Enfant du Monde (Mécénat Cardiac Surgery - Child of the World) which raises funds to treat children with serious heart conditions who could not otherwise receive treatment in their home countries.[3]
Distinctions[edit]
- Grand officer of the Legion of Honour[4]
- Grand officer of the ordre national du Mérite
Honors[edit]
- The Marcel Rudloff Prize of Tolerance 2015.[5]
- Gold Women Trophy of 1998
Bibliography[edit]
- Elizabeth Drévillon, Professeur Leca : Chirurgien du cœur, Éditions Anne Carrière, 2003. ISBN 978-2843372162
- Elide Montesi, « Francine Leca », in Les filles d'Hippocrate, Les Éditions Acrodacrolivres, 2014, p. 125-130 ISBN 9782930756233
References[edit]
- ^ Merlin, Benoît. "Francine Leca: on entre dans le moteur et on répare". Cles magazine. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
- ^ Bonnec, Sidonie (March 9, 2022). "Francine Leca, la première femme à être devenue chirurgienne cardiaque en France". France Bleu (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-28.
- ^ Gilbert, Charles (1997-10-09). "Francine Leca, chirurgienne: «Je me suis accrochée, c'est tout»". LExpress.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-29.
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- ^ "Prix de la Tolérance 2015" (in French). March 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-02-06. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
External links[edit]
- « Francine Leca, à cœur ouvert », À voix nue, par Claire Pouly-Borgeaud. Réalisation : Rafik Zenine. France Culture, May 2016.
- Margaux Rambert, « Francine Leca, à cœur ouvert », psychologies.com, November 2010.
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- 1938 births
- Living people
- 20th-century French physicians
- 21st-century French physicians
- French women physicians
- French cardiac surgeons
- French women surgeons
- Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour
- Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite
- 21st-century French women physicians
- 20th-century French women physicians
- Women cardiologists