Jean-François Mattei (born 14 January 1943) is a French doctor and politician.

Medical career

Jean-François Mattei is a professor of

pediatrics Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until th ...

and

genetics Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution. Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Augustinian friar wor ...

. He served as the director of Genetics at the

teaching hospital A teaching hospital is a hospital or medical centre that provides medical education and training to future and current health professionals. Teaching hospitals are almost always affiliated with one or more universities and are often co-located ...

of Marseilles. He was an advisor of the ''Comité consultatif national d'éthique'' (CCNE) until 1997, and has been a titular member of the French

Académie Nationale de Médecine Situated at 16 Rue Bonaparte in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the Académie nationale de médecine (National Academy of Medicine) was created in 1820 by King Louis XVIII at the urging of baron Antoine Portal. At its inception, the instituti ...

since June 2000. He was also the president of the

French Red Cross The French Red Cross (french: Croix-Rouge française), or the CRF, is the national Red Cross Society in France founded in 1864 and originally known as the ''Société française de secours aux blessés militaires'' (SSBM). Recognized as a public u ...

. until 22 June 2013.

Elected positions

On 4 December 1989, he was elected to the second district of

Bouches-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône ( , , ; oc, Bocas de Ròse ; "Mouths of the Rhône") is a department in Southern France. It borders Vaucluse to the north, Gard to the west and Var to the east. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the south. Its prefecture and large ...

, replacing

Jean-Claude Gaudin Jean-Claude Gaudin (; born 8 October 1939) is a French politician for The Republicans. He served as the Mayor of Marseille from 1995 to 2020. He was a member of the National Assembly of France from Bouches-du-Rhône from 1978 to 1989 and has be ...

, who had been elected to the Senate; he was then re-elected to this position in 1993, 1997, and 2002.

Dominique Tian Dominique Tian (born 14 December 1959) is a French businessman and retired politician who represented the Bouches-du-Rhône's 2nd constituency, 2nd constituency of the Bouches-du-Rhône Departments of France, department in the National Assembly ( ...

replaced him in 2007. Since 1983 he has been a councillor of the municipality of

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

, and a regional advisor for

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (; or , ; commonly shortened to PACA; en, Provence-Alps-French Riviera, italic=yes; also branded as Région Sud) is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, the far southeastern on the mainland. Its pref ...

. Mattei originally belonged to the

Union for French Democracy The Union for French Democracy (french: Union pour la démocratie française, UDF) was a centre to centre-right political party in France. It was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to c ...

(UDF), and was elected chairman of the Liberal Democracy and Independents (DLI) when it split from the UDF in October 2000. Later he joined

Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, Union pour un mouvement populaire, ; UMP, ) was a centre-right political party in France that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in France along with the centre-left Social ...

(UMP).

Role in 2003 heat wave

Mattei served as health minister during the

2003 European heat wave The 2003 European heat wave saw the hottest summer recorded in Europe since at least 1540. France was hit especially hard. The heat wave led to health crises in several countries and combined with drought to create a crop shortfall in parts of S ...

, in which over 11000 French people, mostly elderly, died of heat-related illnesses.

References

External links

Red Cross page about Mattei
1943 births Living people Physicians from Lyon Politicians from Lyon Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Union for a Popular Movement politicians Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic French Ministers of Health French people of Italian descent French pediatricians 20th-century French physicians French geneticists {{France-politician-UMP-stub