Speakers

THURSDAY 1^TH DECEMBER

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  LEDIA LAZERI

  Regional Adviser for Mental Health at WHO Regional Office for Europe

  Introductory session – Thursday 1 December at 9:00 a.m. and moderator – Urban planning, architecture, nature in cities and mental health – at 9 a.m.

  Ledia LAZERI is a Medical Doctor, specialized in psychiatry and psychotherapy, with experience in clinical work and teaching.

  Her specialties are health policy and governance, the subject of social determinants of health, mental health policy and the development of mental health services.

  She has been involved with the WHO since 2000 when she joined a mental health reform program in Albania. She was also involved in mental health projects in the Balkan countries as part of the Stability Pact Initiative for South Eastern Europe and later in Turkey as coordinator of the mental disability program. These mental health programs included work on mental health policy, service and workforce development, and the empowerment and advocacy of mental health service users and carers.

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  Paola VIGANO

  Director of the urban planning laboratory of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Member of the board of directors of the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles (ENSAV), Director of the Doctorate in Urban Planning at the IUAV University of Venice, Director of the urban planning agency “Studio Paola Vigano” in Milan

  Great Witness – Urban planning, architecture, nature in cities and mental health – Thursday 1 December at 10 a.m.

  Paola VIGANO is an architect and urban planner. She is a professor of Urban Theory and Urban Design at EPFL (Lausanne) where she leads the Habitat Research Center, and also at the IUAV University of Venice.

  In 1990 she founded Studio with Bernardo Secchi. She’s also the founder of Studio Paola VIGANO. Since 2015, it focuses on the ecological and social transition of cities and regions by designing projects on different scales and creating public spaces. In 2019, her work was exhibited at the Shenzen Biennale and in 2021 at the Venice Biennale.

  She won le “Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme” in 2013, the Ultima Architectuur Prize (Flemish Ministry of Culture for Architecture) in 2017 and the “Médaille d’Or de l’Architecture” 2018, during the Triennale di Milano. In 2016 she was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Catholic University of Louvain in the framework of the “Year of Utopias for our Time”. In 2022 she won the Schelling Award for Architectural Theory.

  Among her publications:

  • Viganò Paola (2022), “Life as a Common: Space for a New Biopolitical Project”, New Geographies 12, Mojdeh Mahdavi and Liang Wang, eds., Harvard University Press.
  • Cavalieri Chiara & Viganò Paola (2019), eds., The Horizontal Metropolis. A radical project, Zurich: Park Books.
  • Viganò Paola, Secchi Bernardo and Fabian Lorenzo, (2016), eds., Water and Asphalt. The project of isotropy, Zürich: Park Books.
  • Viganò Paola (2012), The Territories of Urban Planning. The project as knowledge producer, MetisPresses, Geneva.
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  Yves BONARD

  Urban planner of the City of Lausanne

  City of Lausanne – Thursday 1 December at 10:25 a.m.

  Yves BONARD is an urban planner, head of the “Urban Projects” unit of Lausanne. After studies in Geography and History (University of Lausanne) as well as in town planning (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), he did a doctoral thesis on environmental justice in urban projects.

  Winner of a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), he was notably a guest researcher at the University of British Columbia.

  For 15 years, he has been developing his experience in the management of urban projects and carrying out teaching and research activities.

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  Sylvie JUSTOME

  Deputy Mayor in charge of health security, health and senior citizens of the city of Bordeaux

  Feedback – Which mental health priorities in urban projects? – Thursday, December 1 at 10:25 a.m.

  Born in Brittany, Sylvie JUSTOME was marked very early by the reading of Silent Spring, by Rachel CARSON. She has a taste for study, reading and contemplative wonder, in front of nature populated by Greco-Latin mythology.

  Aggregate of Classical Letters at the age of 23, mother of two children, she teached, trained and advised for 22 years. She published several literary or didactic articles, in many former colonized countries. Then, she became a regional pedagogical inspector in many academies, including overseas and ended her career in Aquitaine, “the last natural estuary in Europe”.

  Her militant, humanist and ecological commitments combine the values of secularism, emancipation, justice, responsibility towards future generations and universality.

  She has been Deputy Mayor of Bordeaux since July 2020, in charge of health, health security and major risks, and metropolitan councilor.

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  SIMON DAVIES

  Vice-president of the AIA Nantes Foundation

  Debate – How to reconcile urban life and mental health – Thursday 1 December at 11:55 a.m.

  Simon DAVIES holds an engineering degree from Polytechnique. He teaches and actively works in the fields of ecological architecture and health-friendly urban planning. He is a partner in AIA Life Designers and director of the AIA Environment Office.

  Since 2015, he has actively contributed to the work of the AIA foundation, especially by participating to the publication of “Bien Vivre La Ville: vers un urbanisme favorable à la santé” (Well-Being in Cities: towards health-friendly urban planning), a reference work on the close links between urban planning and health.

  Combining primary research and operational experiments on various urban projects such as the Olympic Village and the city of Grenoble, his approach aims to promote consideration of health issues in the construction of cities, taking into account the three components of well-being: physical, mental and social. Simon Davies considers that the links between the living environment and mental health are a still under-investigated field of research: this is the “blind spot” of urban planning.

  Taking mental health issues into consideration represents a huge challenge for all city stakeholders. The emerging approaches regarding inclusive and sensory design, carried out on an international scale, in neighborhoods or in hospital contexts, have a great deal to teach us about how we rethink our urban living environment.

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  Charlotte MARCHANDISE

  UNESCO Consultant and trainer Political personality

  Debate – How to reconcile the urban and mental health? – Thursday, December 1 at 11:55 a.m.

  Charlotte is an international expert on empowerment and governance, esp. in the fields of global and urban health, resilience, and the environment.

  From 2014 to 2020 she was elected deputy mayor of Rennes and president of the French and European WHO Healthy Cities Network.

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  Clémence MONTAGNE

  Director of Design Lab Care

  Debate – How to reconcile urban life and mental health – Thursday 1 December at 11:55 a.m.

  Geographer and urban planner, Clémence Montagne defended a doctoral thesis in urban transport planning in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in 2016, at Paris Sorbonne University.

  Five years of expatriation in the United Arab Emirates, as well as professional experience in Libya, before returning to France to take the position of director at the Care Design Lab have contributed to refocusing her mobility approach on a renewed interest in the determinants of health.

  Since September 2018, Clémence Montagne is at the head of the Care
  design Lab, a training platform for designers specialized in health, social
  and public innovation. She has participated in the definition and supervision of several projects on mental healthcare pathways, health-friendly urban planning and elements of the urban environment conducive to physical and mental well-being.

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  Mathieu ZIMMER

  Associate Director "Deux degrés Bordeaux"

  Debate – How to reconcile urban life and mental health – Thursday 1 December at 11:55 a.m.

  Mathieu ZIMMER is an urban planner and geographer, specialized in the analysis of lifestyles, uses and territorial representations.

  He works on narratives (in particular prospective narratives) of all these elements. In 2013, he co-founded the Deux Degrés agency (territorial strategies, field surveys, mediation).

  He co-authored Le Petit Paris (Grand Prix architecture book award for 2015), Le Méga Grand Bordeaux and the Safari guides. He is also the creator of the entertaining prospective site “Youpi La France”.

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  EMMANUELLE GAUDEMER

  Health Vice-President AIA Foundation "Health and Environment Architecture" and Associate Director AIA Life Designers

  Debate Moderator – How to reconcile urban life and mental health – Thursday 1 December at 11:55 a.m.

  Committed woman, carrier of innovative projects, her engine is the creation of value the encounter with the other.

  At the service of a virtuous and innovative creative economy, source of job creation.

  Her drivers and structuring themes: innovation, design, health, sport and well-being, architecture, international, and the role of women in our societies.

  Creator of the AIA foundation, Emmanuelle GAUDEMER is also a founding member and regional ambassador of French Care.

  In this context, she supports the co-construction of “user journeys” where global health is at the heart of urban, architectural and technical conception.

  This co-construction through French Care allow to have a global public/private approach.

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  Jean-Luc Roelandt

  The WHO Collaborating Center Deputy Director (CCOMS)

  Debate Moderator – How to reconcile urban life and mental health – Thursday 1 December at 11:55 a.m.

  In 30 years, he has developed, in a public psychiatry sector in Lille with a multidisciplinary team, including general practitioners, nurses, social services, municipalities, local elected officials, users and families. This work leads to the creation of an Intercommunal Health, Mental Health and Citizenship Council. It also facilitate the creation of mutual aid groups in the sector, managed directly by users and financed by the State.

  Users also take part to the councils and in the organization of a users’ forum. These actions show the work in favor of empowerment carried out by sector 59G21.

  He participates in the creation of the contemporary art fund for destigmatization in mental health and the frontiers art gallery.

  He is the author or coordinator of several scientific publications, as well as 2 books:

  • Roelandt JL, Desmons P. Handbook of Citizen Psychiatry. L’avenir d’une désillusion. (The future of a disillusion). Paris :
    In Press: 2002.
  • Roelandt JL, Staedel B. L’expérimentation des médiateurs de santé (The experimentation of health mediators) – peers. A revolution
    restless.
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  Alain SUPIOT

  Professor of the College of France

  Moderator: “Work, economy, temporality and mental health” – Thursday 1 December at 2 p.m.

  Alain SUPIOT obtained his PhD in law (Bordeaux, 1979) before becoming a Professor of Law (1980), doctor honoris causa of the universities of Louvain-la-Neuve, Aristotle of Thessaloniki, Liège and Buenos Aires. He is also a corresponding fellow of the British Academy (2015).

  During his career, he was successively a professor at the University of Poitiers, then in Nantes (UMR-CNRS 6028) and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2001), before being elected to the Collège de France in 2012, where he held the “Social State and Globalisation: Legal Analysis of Solidarity” Chair until 2019.

  He chaired the National Council for the Development of the Humanities and Social Sciences from 1998 to 2000. From 2016 to 2018, he was a member of the Global Commission on the Future of Work.

  During his career, he did several years of research abroad (1981: Institute of Industrial Relations in Berkeley; 1989/1990: European University Institute in Florence; 1997/1998: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin).

  In Nantes, he founded the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange-Guépin in 1995, followed by the Institute for Advanced Studies in 2008, which jointly hosts scientific residences for scientists from the developed and developing countries. His work has mainly been deployed in two complementary fields: social law and legal theory.

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  Yessonguilana Jean-Marie YEO-TENENA

  Psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry

  Feedback – How to reconcile city dynamics, professional environments and mental health – Thursday 1 December at 2:25 p.m.

  Since September 2015: Director of the Diploma of Specialized Studies (DES) in Psychiatry at the UFR Medical Sciences Abidjan

  Since May 2017: Head of the Nervous System, Rehabilitation and Rheumatology Teaching Unit at the UFR Medical Sciences Abidjan

  Since February 2021: Head of the Department of Medicine and Medical Specialties at the UFR Medical Sciences Abidjan

  Since July 2021: Representative of Félix Houphouët Boigny University at CTS MPOMV/ CAMES

  From April 2020 to Wednesday, November 02, 2022: Coordinating Director of the National Mental Health Program (PNSM)

  From August 17, 2022 to today: Director of the Department of Mutual Insurance and Social Works in Schools (DMOSS) of the Ministry of National Education and Literacy

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  Sho TAKAHASHI

  Psychiatrist specializing in public mental health

  Feedback – How to reconcile city dynamics, professional environments and mental health – Thursday 1 December at 2:25 p.m.

  He is a psychiatrist specializing in public mental health, including disaster psychiatry, industrial psychiatry, and geriatric psychiatry.

  He is a member and advisor of the Disaster Psychiatric Assistance Team (DPAT). He has also followed up on mental health support for flood victims, local government officials, and relief workers.

  He is also a member of the Disaster Assistance Committee of the Japanese Society of Neuropsychiatry, the Japanese Society of Traumatic Stress Medicine and the Japanese Society of General Hospital Psychiatry, as well as a member of the neuropsychiatry section of the AC2020 – The Academic Consortium on Emergency Medical Service System and Disaster Medical Response System – undergoing the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.

  At the same time, he works as an occupational physician. In cities, many people work and spend more than one-third of their daytime in office or work place. Lifestyle habits during and outside of working hours are important for maintaining good health.

  In Japan, in order to ensure that workers use this time safely and effectively, occupational physicians are assigned to companies to support workers’ lifestyles and mental health. There is also a stress check system, whereby stress checks are conducted, and workers themselves are notified of the results to encourage them to become aware of their own stress levels and reduce the risk of personal mental health problems.

   

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  Antoine PELISSOLO

  Psychiatrist, Professor of Medicine and 1st Deputy Mayor of Créteil

  Feedback – How to reconcile city dynamics, professional environments and mental health – Thursday 1 December at 2:25 p.m.

  Antoine PELISSOLO is a psychiatrist, head of department at the Henri-Mondor University Hospitals (AP-HP) in Créteil, and professor of medicine at the University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC). He has worked for more than 20 years on anxiety and depressive disorders, in particular on phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorders. His research focuses on the epidemiology, psychological and cognitive factors, and treatments of these disorders, particularly in their severe and resistant forms.

  Lately, he has been interested in the influences of the environment, positive and negative, on mental health and various psychic disorders. He has worked in particular on the psychological impact of climate disturbances and the resulting prospects for our societies, in particular through eco-anxiety.

  Since 2020, Antoine PELISSOLO has been 1st Deputy Mayor of Créteil, responsible in particular for social action and disability, and Departmental Councilor for Val-de-Marne. He has contributed to the creation and then to the animation of the local Mental Health Council of Créteil since 2016.

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  Emile Roger LOMBERTIE

  Mayor of the City of Limoges

  Feedback – How to reconcile city dynamics, professional environments and mental health – Thursday 1 December at 2:25 p.m.

  Emile Roger LOMBERTIE has been Mayor of Limoges since April 2014. He was re-elected in 2020. He is also Vice-President of the Limoges Métropole urban community, in charge of economic development.

  He qualified as a psychiatrist at the University of Limoges and was the head of the hospital hub at the Esquirol Centre until 2015.

  He was behind the creation of the Limousin addictology centre.

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  Nicolas Chaignot

  Workplace health researcher

  Debate – Organization and work environment: what impact on mental health in our cities? – Thursday, December 1 at 3:55 p.m.

  Nicolas CHAIGNOT DELAGE is currently a researcher in workplace health, a social lawyer and a clinical philosopher of work. He is a member of the Institute for Research in Work Psychodynamics (IPDT, Paris) and works at the Interservice Occupational Health Association (ASTI) in Toulouse.

  He did a thesis at the European University Institute in Florence entitled “Slavery and Modernity: Voluntary Servitude as a Problem of Contemporary Capitalism”. He was with Christophe DEJOURS, scientific coordinator of the interdisciplinary research project “Labor clinic and legal developments” at the CNAM (2012-2016). In 2020-21, he was a resident fellow at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies.

  His research interests deal with the right to health of the human person, on the links between subjectivity, work and law, on the construction of solidarity at work, on the current issue of consent to voluntary servitude and the persistence of slavery and forced labor around the world.

  In 2011, he was awarded the Le Monde – University Research prize (14th edition) for his doctoral thesis.

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  Vincent PUIG

  Director of the Institute for Research and Innovation of the Center Pompidou

  Debate – Organization and work environment: what impact on mental health in our cities? – Thursday, December 1 at 3:55 p.m.

  Vincent PUIG is director of the Institute for Research and Innovation at the Center Pompidou, which he created in 2006 with the philosopher Bernard Stiegler. A digital practitioner and theoretician, he has conducted several research projects at IRCAM, the Center Pompidou and then at IRI, especially on indexing, annotation, categorization and editorialization technologies.

  He coordinates contributory research projects mainly in Seine-Saint-Denis and with a view to an economy of contribution where it is a question of cultivating knowledge to fight against entropy and the growing loss of diversity of biological, technological and social systems. This fight against entropy is a design challenge for digital systems that must be taken care of collectively.

  It is to pursue this objective that Vincent PUIG is also involved in the Cap Digital innovation cluster and in the Digital and Citizenship Chair (ICP-ISEP). He recently co-edited two collective works: Taking care of IT and generations, FYP 2021 (with A. Alombert, V. Chaix and M. Montévil) and Black boxes and yellow vests, Cross-views on sociality at the Anthropocene era, L’Harmattan 2019 (with JF. Petit and V. Laquais).

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  Pierre-Yves VERKINDT

  Professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon Sorbonne)

  Debate – Organization and work environment: what impact on mental health in our cities? – Thursday, December 1 at 3:55 p.m.

  Pierre-Yves VERKINDT is professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon Sorbonne).

  Associate Professor of Law and professor of Private Law, specialized in social law and especially in health law in the workplace.

  Author of several books and articles, he continues to animate with Pascal LOKIEC, also a professor at the University of Paris 1, a research seminar (Institute of legal research at the Sorbonne) under the title “Thinking social law”.

  He is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Committee for the History of Administrations in charge of labor and employment as well as a member of the editorial board of several journals in the legal field.

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  Denis LEGUAY

  President of the French Mental Health Federation

  Debate moderator – Organization and work environment: what impact on mental health in our cities? – Thursday, December 1 at 3:55 p.m.

  Hospital psychiatrist, hospital practitioner at the Angevin Mental Health Centre for over forty years

  Coordinating Physician for the Psychic Disability Resource Centre of Pays de la Loire (since 2015)

  Honorary President of the Pays de La Loire Regional Health Observatory (since 2002)

  Secretary General of the French Committee for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (June 2006)

  Former President of the Conférence Régionale de la Santé et de l’Autonomie
  (CRSA) for Pays de la Loire (2010-2021)

  President of the “Santé Mentale France” Mental Health Federation (2009)

  Research topics and interests:

  • Evaluation of psychic disability (cognition, social skills, social autonomy).
  • Effectiveness of psychosocial rehabilitation methods.
  • Epidemiology of psychiatric disorders, social representations and public health.
  • Healthcare systems.
  • Suicide : epidemiology, primary prevention, treatment strategies.
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  ZAYNAB RIET

  General Delegate of the French Hospital Federation

  Debate Agitator: Organization and work environment: what impact on mental health in our cities? – Thursday, December 1 at 3:55 p.m.

  Zaynab RIET is a graduate of the School of Advanced Studies in Public Health (EHESP) and the IEP of Paris (Sciences-Po) Executive Master, Auditor of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Protection, state-certified nurse. She begins her career as a hospital director, as Director of Purchasing, Logistics, Works, Quality. She became Director of Human Resources, before managing public health establishments of different sizes.

  She contributes to the creation of the Network of Ile-de-France buyers (RESAH IDF) and she presides over the Val d’Oise inter-establishment and service gerontological network.

  She leads one of the largest psychiatric establishments in France, the public establishment specializing in mental health of Ville-Evrard in Neuilly-sur-Marne (93). She also managed the hospital group in Le Havre (76), the CH de la Risle and the EHPAD in Beuzeville.

  She chaired the National Conference of Hospital Center Directors (CNDCH). She was also a teacher at the Faculty of Bobigny Paris XIII Master of Science and Techniques of Management and Health Management UFR Master GEMIOSS I and II.

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  Ombeline Accarion

  Councilor Department of Loire-Atlantique and Vice-president for People with Disabilities and Autonomy

  Closing session – Thursday 1 December at 5:15 p.m.

  Former engineer in charge of wind energy projects, she has supported renewable energies in rural areas for 15 years. In 2019, she became a school teacher, involved in favor of inclusive schools and against educational inequalities.

  She has been involved for a long time with associations and she is politically involed from 2020. She was elected Departmental Councilor in Nantes in 2021 and get the Vice-Presidency for People with Disabilities and Autonomy.

  Since then, she strives to makes the link between the territories, their inhabitants and those who carry out actions there: administration, associations, companies. Herobjective is to integrate disability, inclusion, autonomy and accessibility policies into a broader strategic vision, towards an inclusive society that integrates environmental issues into social policies.

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  Jean-Jacques Coiplet

  Director General of the Pays de la Loire Regional Health Agency

  Closing session – Thursday 1 December at 5:15 p.m.

  Jean-Jacques COIPLET graduated from the Grenoble Institute of Political Sciences Institute, before joining the Paris Institute of Political Sciences (1986-1987), then the Regional Institute of Administration in Lyon and the School of Advanced Studies in Public Health (1987-1988).

  From 1988 to 2010, he served as an executive officer and then as the director of Health and Social Affairs Directorates in various French departments (Centre, Jura, Alpes de Provence, Mayotte, Lozère, Aisne, Bouches-du-Rhône).

  He was then appointed director of public and environmental health at the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur Regional Health Agency (between 2010 and 2012), before becoming Director-general of the Corsica Regional Health Agency for almost 5 years.

  Jean-Jacques Coiplet was also the regional and departmental director of Youth, Sports and Social Cohesion of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur and Bouches-du-Rhône (between 2016 and 2017).

  On the 1st of October 2017, he was appointed Director-General of the Pays de la Loire Regional Health Agency.

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  Philippe El Saïr

  Director General of Nantes University Hospital

  Closing session – Thursday 1 December at 5:15 p.m.

  Philippe EL SAÏR is currently Director General of Nantes University Hospital after having directed the University Hospital of Brest. He also leads the National Center for Hospital Expertise.

  He graduated in political science (Grenoble) and he has a law degree and is a former student of the School of Advanced Studies in Public Health.

  He began his professional career in 1993 at Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) as director of human resources and director of finance where he helped the conversion of the Rothschild hospital.

  
  In 2002, he moved on to a first experience of general management at Valréas in the Vaucluse, including the strategic repositioning of the establishment.

  
  In December 2005, he became head of the Villefranche-sur-Saône hospital.

  
  In 2013, Philippe EL SAÏR became general manager of Brest University Hospital. He developed the attractiveness and activity of the hospital, by improving support for medical and research leaders, service policy and digitization.

  
  In 2015, Philippe EL SAÏR became president of the Centre National de l’Expertise Hospitalière (National Center for Hospital Expertise), a consulting and training firm.

  
  Philippe EL SAÏR was working on the end of lockdown strategy, as a member of Jean Castex’s commission from April to July 2020. He sat and still does on several boards of directors in the health field. He holds the general management of Nantes University Hospital for 2 years.

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  Marie Jeanne RICHARD

  UNAFAM's President

  Closing session – Thursday 1 December at 5:15 p.m.

  UNAFAM’s President, retired hospital practitioner, affected by mental illness in my own family. UNAFAM is committed to defend the common interests of people with mental illness or disabilities and those who help them, respecting the values expressed by the association and in cooperation with our partners.