Biography
* 1948: Born in Clermont * 1971: Major in the contest for the Internat * 1977: Doctor in surgery * 1980: He obtained a chair professor at the Universities digestive surgery. He was only 33 years old. * 1989 - 1992: Director of special education Visceral surgery at the Medical School of Strasbourg. * 1989 - 1992: Vice President of the regional council of the Inserm. * Since 1989: Head of digestive and endocrine surgery University Hospitals of Strasbourg. * Since 1994: Founding Director of the IRCAD and the EITS * On September 7, 2001, he made New York a world first in TeleSurgery operating in the gallbladder of a patient who was in Strasbourg. This was the Lindbergh Operation. * Since 2002: Founding member of WeBSurg * In March 2005, he participated, with prestigious colleagues: Pierre Chambon, Jean-Marie Lehn, Pascal Neuville and Charles Woler, the draft pole of competitiveness "Innovation Therapeutics", in the context of Alsace BioValley. * On April 2, 2007, he is believed to be the first in the world to operate a person without leaving a scar, removing the gallbladder of a patient older than 30 years without making incision of the skin and through a natural orifice.References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marescaux, Jacques Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg French surgeons Living people 1948 births Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur