Pierre Jean Meunier

Background

Meunier, Pierre Jean was born on June 5, 1936 in Miribel, France. Son of Marcel Jacques and Marie Ernestine (Ballufin) Meunier.

Education

Bachelor, Lycée Ampère, Lyons, France, 1953. Doctor of Medicine, Claude Bernard University, Lyons, France, 1967.

Career

Resident Lyons Hospitals, 1963-1967. Assistant professor Lyons Hospitals Claude Bernard University, 1967-1971, head department rheumatology and bone disease, 1979—2002, honorary chairman department rheumatology and bone diseases, since 2002, professor medicine, since 1971. Emeritus professor Lyons 1 University, since 2006.

Head research unit Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale 234, 1979-1992. Honorary president Groupe de Research et d'Information Osteoporoses, Paris, since 1990. Consultant World Health Organization, Geneva.

Member science board International Osteoporosis Foundation. Past president European Foundation for Osteoporosis, since 1996. Consultant French Minister of Health, since 1997.

Honorary president International Society Bone Morphometry, 2002. Consultant in field.

Achievements

• Pierre Jean Meunier has been listed as a noteworthy Medical educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served with French Navy, 1962-1963. Member European Calcified Tissue Society (secretary 1985-1991), National Science Commission Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, Science Council Drug Agency, National Council University (consultant at Minister of Health), Ordre des Palmes Academiques (officer).

Interests

• Avocations: music, tennis.

Connections

Married Marie Aimée Loiseleur, July 16, 1961 (divorced 1984). Children: Gilles, Pascal, Francois. Married Annie Bernadette Mariés, December 27, 1986.

Father:

Marcel Jacques Meunier

Mother:

Marie Ernestine (Ballufin) Meunier

Spouse:

Annie Bernadette Mariés

Spouse:

Marie Aimée Loiseleur

child:

Gilles Meunier

child:

Francois Meunier

child:

Pascal Meunier