- Bernard Pertuiset
Bernard Pertuiset, MD (1920-2000) was a French
neurosurgeon , born inParis on October 28, 1920.He spent 4 years of internship in a service of
neurology atPitié-Salpêtrière Hospital with T. Alajouanine.He got his medical diploma in 1949, writing a thesis oncranioplasty . He was an Assistant of Doctor Petit-Dutaillis in La Pitie Hospital Neurosurgical service where he developed his career until retirement on October 1, 1990.In 1949 -1950, he acted at the
Montreal Neurological Institute as a research fellow inneurophysiology under the direction of H. Jasper, and also was allowed by W. Penfield to analyze the records of operated epileptic patients and involvement in a paper on bitemporalepilepsy .From 1949 to 1990, he wrote - as senior author - 356 papers on all aspects of
neurosurgery . Morover, he wrote: 4 books on epidermoids (1957), Cranio cerebral topography (1959),Acoustic neuromas (1970) and Ruptured saccular aneurysms (1987). Most of his clinical and fundamental research was devoted to cerebral vascular malformations.He delivered 3 international lectures: Olivecrona inStockholm (1981), European inWarsaw (1986) and at Henrich Kluver inChicago (1990).1958 : Neurochirurgien des Hopitaux de Paris.
1961: Assistant Professor of Marcel David.
1969: Professor and
Chairman .1975-1979:
President of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies.1981-1988: Chairman of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Liaison Committee organizing an educational course in
Taipei andSeoul .He developed a profound arterial hypotension technique to make open aneurysmal surgery in a safer way.He developed a neurosurgical service of 90 beds, with a
staff of 2 Associate Professors and 3 neurosurgeons.Co-founders of Advances and Technical Standards inNeurosurgery .Retired in 1989
Died on November 29, 2000.
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