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

Medical career

Jean-François Mattei is a professor of

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and

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. He served as the director of Genetics at the

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

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 since June 2000. He was also the president of the French Red Cross until 22 June 2013.

Elected positions

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

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, replacing Jean-Claude Gaudin, who had been elected to the Senate; he was then re-elected to this position in 1993, 1997, and 2002. Dominique Tian replaced him in 2007. Since 1983 he has been a councillor of the municipality of

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, and a regional advisor for

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. Mattei originally belonged to the

Union for French Democracy The Union for French Democracy ( ; UDF) was a centre-right political party in France. The UDF was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to counterbalance the Gaullist preponderance over ...

(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 ( ; UMP ) was a Liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative List of political parties in France, political party in France, largely inspired by the Gaullism, Gaullist tradition. During its existence, the UMP was o ...

(UMP).

Role in 2003 heat wave

Mattei served as health minister during the 2003 European heat wave, 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 Knights of the Legion of Honour Union for a Popular Movement politicians Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Ministers of health of France French people of Italian descent French pediatricians 20th-century French physicians French geneticists {{France-politician-UMP-stub