Guy H Fontaine
Professor
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
France
Biography
Guy Hugues Fontaine has made 15 original contributions at the inception of cardiac pacemakers in the mid-60s. He has identified ARVD by serendipity in the late 70s, published 900 scientific papers including 201 book chapters. He is in the 3 books: 216 Profiles in Cardiology since the 14th century (Hurst 2003), “500 greatest Geniuses of the 21th century†(ABI) 2005 USA, the “100 Life time of Achievement†(IBC) 2005 Cambridge UK. Reviewer of 17 journals both in clinical and basic science. He has been invited to give 11 master’s lectures of 90 minutes each during three weeks in the top universities of China (2014). He has also served for 5 years as a Member of the Editorial Board of Circulation. He is also working on brain and heart protection in cardiac arrest and stroke by therapeutic hypothermia. He has recently developed new techniques of hypothermia for brain protection in OHCA and Stroke. This technique has been fortuitously used after resuscitation of his wife at home in June 2011 with absolutely no neurologic deficit despite 6 minutes of no flow. He has also invented a high-tech device which can be considered the ultimate in palliative care by preventing unexpectedly awaking after ordinary sleep. This device was mostly designed for major neurologic disorders.
Research Interest
Cardiovascular diseases, Antiarrhythmic Surgery, Stroke, Neurologic disorders