Dr Jean-Michel Pawlotsky is Professor of Medicine at the University of Paris-Est. He is the Director of the Department of Virology at the Henri Mondor University Hospital in Créteil, France, and Director of research team “Viruses-Hepatology-Cancer“ at the Mondor Institute of Biomedical Research (INSERM U955). He focuses on teaching and research in virology (primarily hepatitis viruses) and liver oncology.
Dr Pawlotsky earned his medical degree in Hepatology and Gastroenterology in 1992. In addition, he earned a Thesis in molecular virology from the University of Paris, France, and he is a graduate in virology from the Pasteur Institute in Paris and microbiology from the University of Paris.
Dr Pawlotsky has been acting as the Secretary General of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) between 2005 and 2009. He is in charge of the Young Investigators program at the National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis/Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANRS/MIE). Dr Pawlotsky has been an Associate Editor of Hepatology, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), between 2001 and 2006, and an Associate Editor of Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), between 2011 and 2016.
Dr Pawlotsky’s noted career contributions include the publication of over 650 articles and book chapters in his areas of expertise and over 900 invited lectures at international and national meetings.