CME INDIA Presentation by ⚜ Dr. M. Gowri Sankar, MD, Associate Professor, Dept. of General Medicine, Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, Coimbatore.
Today’s History Feature:
Prof. Dr. Jean Bernard
(May 26, 1907 – Apr 17, 2006)
💠French Physician
💠Father of Haematological Oncology
His contributions…
🔹Bernard studied medicine at Paris in 1926 and completed his laboratory training at the Pasteur Institute in 1929.
🔹He was professionally trained by Dr. Paul chevalier who was a leading haematologist in France during his period. He was the one who influenced him to become a haematologist.
🔹Then, Dr. Bernard became a Professor of Haematology and simultaneously he was also the Director of the Institute for leukaemia at the University of Paris.
🔹Initially, Dr. Bernard focussed his research on leukaemia. He was the first to describe the chemically induced leukaemia among industrial workers in 1950.
🔹He further demonstrated the toxic origin of leukaemia by injecting the chemical tar into the bone marrow of a rat and found that it caused leukaemia.
🔹By collaborating with Dr. Marcel Bessis, he developed Exchange Blood Transfusion as a therapy for childhood leukaemia.
🔹In 1962, Dr. Bernard successfully reached the high remission rate and did the first cure of Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia by providing the drug called Daunorubicin.
🔹Moreover, he was the first to cure the Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia by using the drug Busulfan on a 3 years old child.
🔹By associating with Dr. Jean Pierre Soulier, he described the Bernard-Soulier syndrome upon testing on a boy with prolonged bleeding post tooth extraction. He was the first to recognise the Hereditary Bleeding Disorder.
🔹In addition, he published around 14 textbooks and monographs on Haematology.
🔹Apart from all the above, he was a creative writer, thinker and a man of poetry as well as literature. He published three volumes of Poetry and around 20 books on Medical Ethics and Philosophy.
A Day to Commemorate…
The Pope of Haematology
Prof. Dr. Jean Bernard 🙏🏼
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Great soul, humble regards to Dr Jean Bernard, many lives saved and will be saved by his inventions. 💐💐🙏🏽🙏🏽
Driven by a passion to improve and save the lives of every human being,these pioneers of the frontiers of medicine have laid the foundations of the future of treatment.I propose that an award be established every year to encourage those working in their fields.