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    Laurent Bertoletti, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

    MD, PhD
    Service de Médecine Vasculaire et Thérapeutique, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Saint-Etienne ; INSERM CIC 1408 CHU de St-Etienne; INSERM UMR 1059, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne ; FCRIN INNOVTE, France.
    Saint-Etienne, Rhone-Alpes, France

    Laurent BERTOLETTI is Medical Doctor and Professor of Medicine in the University Hospital of StEtienne (CHUSE), France.
    He graduated as a chest physician in the faculty of Medicine of St-Etienne, France.
    After a fellowship in the department of Pr Gerald SIMONNEAU (Paris), he created and developed the pulmonary hypertension program of the University Hospital of St-Etienne.
    After a post-doc in the “Angiology and Haemostasis” department of Pr H BOUNAMEAUX (Geneva, Switzerland), he moved to the Vascular Medicine department of the CHUSE, department he leads since several years.
    His current researches focus on the management of vascular diseases, with a specific attention to anticoagulant therapy in patients with pulmonary vascular diseases. He is highly involved in clinical research in venous thromboembolism (via the French INNOVTE network, http://www.innovtethrombosisnetwork.eu/fr/reseau-innovte), with interaction in basic sciences (via the INSERM U1059 SAINBIOSE, https://www.univ-st-etienne.fr/fr/sainbiose.html). He is the national coordinator of the RIETE registry (https://rieteregistry.com/), and the co-coordinator of the French INNOVTE network (with Pr Francis COUTURAUD, Brest, France).
    In 2021, he has been elected chairman of the “Pulmonary Embolism” sub-assemble of the European Respiratory Society, a large scientific society,
    which spans over 160 countries, prioritizing science, education and advocacy to promote lung health.
    He authored more than 250 references on Pubmed (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laurent_Bertoletti)

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