Hervé Maisonneuve, MD

Hervé Maisonneuve, MD, is Associate Professor, Public Health department, Université Paris-Sud 11, and former President of Global Alliance for Medical Education www.game-cme.org (2006- 2009).

He is medically qualified from the University of Lyons (1979) with business administration qualifications (Certificat de Perfectionnement aux Affaires, Paris, 1994). He practiced clinical medicine for ten years in the Lyons hospitals. He spent 10 years in clinical development in the  pharmaceutical industry. In 1994 he joined the Agence Nationale d’Accréditation et d’Evaluation en Santé (ANAES), Paris, initially as Clinical Guidelines Director, then as Evaluation Director. He was  responsible for the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, consensus conferences and the evaluation of health care professional practices throughout France. He was the editor of www.websurg.com in Strasbourg (2000-2004), an accredited elearning activity. He was director of Continuing Medical Education at Pfizer France (2005-2009).

He has had close involvement with leading international journals through his role as a president (1994-1997) of the European Association for Science Editors (www.ease.org.uk), and chiefeditor of European Science Editing (2000-2006). He has published books on medical writing in French (La Rédaction Médicale, 5th edition 2010, Le Guide du Thésard, 6th  edition 2010). He publishes editing news on www.h2mw.eu.

Conflicts of interest: Former Pfizer employee, member of the CME/CPD
Rome group supported by Serono Symposia International Foundation.
Contact: herve@h2mw.eu