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Reception of Professor Marianna Karamanou of the NKUA’s School of Medicine as member of the French National Academy of Medicine

Reception of Professor Marianna Karamanou of the NKUA’s School of Medicine as member of the French National Academy of Medicine
23.01.2024 - 14.25

On Tuesday, 9 January 2024, in Paris, during its annual inaugural session, the French National Academy of Medicine (Académie Nationale de Médecine) officially received Professor Marianna Karamanou as a corresponding member.

Professor Karamanou was elected to the 1st Division (Medicine and Medical Specialties) of the French National Academy of Medicine for her international work in the History of Medicine.

During the ceremony, the President of the Academy, Professor Jean-Pierre Goullé, presented Professor Karamanou’s work and achievements, and the Secretary of the Academy, Professor Christian Boitard, handed her the medal.

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Presentation of Professor Karamanou with the medal by Professor Christian Boitard

Present at the ceremony was the Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic to France, Mr Dimitrios Zevelakis, as well as numerous other dignitaries and members of the academic community.

πρέσβης Δημήτριος Ζεβελάκης
Dimitrios Zevelakis and Marianna Karamanou

Professor Karamanou is the first-ever female Professor of NKUA (est. 1837) to receive the title of corresponding member from the French National Academy of Medicine and the youngest elected member of the Academy to this day.

The French National Academy of Medicine is an advisory body to the French government, and its members respond to government requests on everything related to public health, medical ethics, and deontology. Since its foundation in 1820 and up to this day, it has enjoyed the membership of—among others—11 Nobel laureates and eminent scientists, including Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie et al.

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Marianna Karamanou is a Dermatologist-Venereologist and Professor of Epistemology, History, and Ethics of Medicine at the School of Medicine of NKUA. She was Associate Professor of History of Medicine at the School of Medicine of the University of Crete, Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, and Research Associate at the Institute of the Humanities in Medicine of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne. She is also Affiliated Investigator at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens. Her research and educational work focuses on the History of Medicine, Medical Ethics, and Medical Humanities.

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