Tzourio, Christophe M.D., Ph.D.

 

Title and Affiliation:

Professor, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, University of Bordeaux, France.

 

Biosketch:

Christophe Tzourio has a dual training in clinical neurology and epidemiology. He was initially trained as a vascular neurologist and served as chief resident of Neurology at Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris. He is Professor of epidemiology at the University of Bordeaux since September 2013 and Director of the Bordeaux Population Health (BPH) Research Center U1219 which includes 13 teams and more than 470 staff members. Prof. Tzourio has worked mainly in the field of epidemiology of brain diseases. He is a leading worldwide researcher in this area, and has been invited to give many keynote lectures in plenary sessions of international meetings (35 since 2000), and to write editorials in international journals. He has published >390 original papers which have been cited >29,000 times in international peer-reviewed journals such as the British Medical Journal, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Archives of Internal Medicine, Annals of Neurology, and Circulation (Google Scholar H index = 100). He is a regular reviewer for international funding agencies, as well as for major international journals, such as JAMA, New Eng J Med, BMJ, Lancet, and Annals of Neurology.

 

Field of Expertise: Epidemiology of brain diseases