Gerard Friedlander is the medical director at the American Hospital of Paris. He is the head of department of physiology at Georges-Pompidou hospital and head of department of physiology at Necker-Enfants Malades. He is also Director of Inserm “growth and signalling” research center at Necker, Paris. Lately he was appointed Délégué Général at the Fondation Université of Paris. He was previously the Dean of Paris Descartes University School of Medicine