Pôle de recherche et de veille sur les maladies infectieuses émergentes, Institut Louis Malardé, BP 30, 98713, Tahiti, Polynésie française
Biography
Didier Raoult, M.D., Ph.D. is a graduate of Marseille Medical School and performed internal medicien and infectious disease specialty training there also. He received degrees in bacteriology and virology (1981) and parasitology (1982). He obtained his Ph.D. in microbiology at Montpellier, France, in 1985. He is full Professor at Marseille School of Medicine and is Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory for the University Hospitals. He is President of the Universite de la Mediterranee in Marseille. He is the co-founder of the European Study Group of Rickettsia, Ehrlichia, Coxiella (EUWOG) for which he is the immediate past president.