Dr Claire Goumard, Md, PhD is Associate Professor in the department of HPB Surgery and Liver Transplant in Pitié Salpêtrière University Hospital in Paris, France.
She completed her medical and general surgical training in Paris Descartes University followed by an HPB surgical fellowship in Paris. She did a one year research fellowship with a FulBright Scolarship in the department of Surgical Oncology of Prof. Jean Nicolas Vauthey in MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA under the mentoring of Prof. Claudius Conrad. Back in Paris she developed an expertise in HPB minimally invasive surgery under the mentoring of Prof. Olivier Scatton. In parallel she completed her training in liver transplantation in Pitie Salpêtrière University Hospital and obtained a PhD on her research on ex-vivo machine perfusion bioingeneering. She is the primary investigator of several clinical research projects in HPB surgery and transplantation financed by national grants (PHRC, Agence de Biomedecine,…) and has published original research articles and chapter books on minimally invasive liver surgery.