Jean-Marie GIRAUD, MD, PhD, studied medicine both at the Faculty in Lyon and at the Armed Forces Health Service School. He then spent several years as a physician in the National Navy before specializing in ophthalmology in Paris, at the Quinze-Vingts Hospital, and in the Military Hospitals in Paris. Appointed Associate Professor of the Val de Grâce in 2013, he served successively as Head of Ophthalmology in Toulon, then in Paris, at the Val de Grâce, and now at the Bégin Training Hospital of the Armed Forces, where the service was relocated. At this facility, he created the Glaucoma Centre at the Bégin Hospital. He is also Head of the surgical department at this hospital.

From the beginning of his training, under the leadership of Professor Jean-Paul Renard, he took a keen interest in glaucoma, its exploration and its treatments. As military physician, he has also been involved in the treatment of ocular trauma, particularly during several external missions of the French Armed Forces or of NATO.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the French Ophthalmological Society, a member of the French Glaucoma Society, of EVER, and of ARVO. He is also a referring ophthalmologist for France to NATO.

Financial disclosure:Professeur Giraud does not have any affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization.