Hugues Duffau
Hugues Duffau, born August 8, 1966 in Montauban, France, is a French neurosurgeon and professor. He is famous for awake surgery in brain tumours and is a professor of neuroplasticity at the University of Montpellier. He is one of the most influential neurosurgeons in history and the fourth most cited.[1]
Biography
In October 1992, Duffau obtained a master of neurosciences from the University of Paris IV. In June 1995, he got an MD and started training in neurosurgery at la Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris. In 2000 he got a PhD in neuroscience and became professor in Montpellier in 2006. One year later he was also made Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Guy de Chauliac Hospital in Montpellier.
Career
Hugues Duffau has stated that he was inspired by famous neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield [2]and after meeting with professor George Ojemann he started practising brain tumour surgery with the patient awake. He has won world wide recognition for his results, has published more than 600 scientific papers and been cited more than 28.000 times. With a h-index of 89 (April 2021), he is the fourth most cited neurosurgeon of all times.[3] For his work, he has been awarded the Olivecrona medal.
Apart from showing that awake surgery prolongs survival in low-grade gliomas,[4] he is also an advocate of the hodotopical view of brain function and has been a critic of the topographical view. In a widely cited article in Brain, he strongly questioned the concept of the Broca language area.[5]
Prices and honours
- Young Neurosurgeon of the Year 2001, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
- Victoire de la médecine (2009, 2010)
- Herbert Olivecrona Medal, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (2010)
- Grand Prix de Cancérologie Chirurgicale de l'Académie nationale de chirurgie (2011)
- Doctor Honoris Causa at the University Leuven de Louvain (2013)
- Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Messina (2013)
- Lecturer Van Wagenen of American Association of Neurological Surgeons (2013)
- Doctor Honoris Causa at the Universidad Iberoamericana (2013)
Publications
Books
- New therapeutic strategies in low-grade gliomas : who grade 2 gliomas. In collaboration with Laurent Capelle. New York, Nova Biomedical Books, 2007 (OCLC 64067527)
- New insights into functional mapping in cerebral tumor surgery, New York, Nova Science Publishers, 2009 (OCLC 429917216)
- Brain mapping from neural basis of cognition to surgical applications. New York, Springer, 2012 (OCLC 761310561)
- Diffuse low-grade gliomas in adults natural history, interaction with the brain, and new individualized therapeutic strategies, London, Springer, 2013 (OCLC 831414758). (en) , 2017 (OCLC 1023084812)
- L'erreur de Broca. Exploration d'un cerveau éveillé, in collaboration with Christophe Duchatelet and Michel Lafon, 2016 (ISBN 978-2749926100)
References
- ↑ "Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool". www.semanticscholar.org. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
- ↑ Duffau, Hugues (2019). "Cerveau : anatomie et fonction". Futuribles. N° 431 (4): 25. doi:10.3917/futur.431.0025. ISSN 0337-307X.
- ↑ "Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool". www.semanticscholar.org. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
- ↑ Duffau, H.; Lopes, M.; Arthuis, F.; Bitar, A.; Sichez, J.-P.; Effenterre, R. Van; Capelle, L. (2005-06-01). "Contribution of intraoperative electrical stimulations in surgery of low grade gliomas: a comparative study between two series without (1985–96) and with (1996–2003) functional mapping in the same institution". Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 76 (6): 845–851. doi:10.1136/jnnp.2004.048520. ISSN 0022-3050. PMC 1739650. PMID 15897509.
- ↑ Tate, Matthew C.; Herbet, Guillaume; Moritz-Gasser, Sylvie; Tate, Joseph E.; Duffau, Hugues (2014-10-01). "Probabilistic map of critical functional regions of the human cerebral cortex: Broca's area revisited". Brain. 137 (10): 2773–2782. doi:10.1093/brain/awu168. ISSN 0006-8950. PMID 24970097.
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