Academic degrees:
2005: PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health (University Paris XI)
1982: Master of applied mathematics (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Positions:
2004- : Statistician and Epidemiologist, Inserm U1061, Montpellier
1998 - 2004: Biostatistician, Inserm U500, Montpellier
1995 - 1998: Biostatistician, Inserm SC10, Villejuif
1989 - 1995: Biostatistician in pharmaceutical industry
1983 - 1989: Biostatistician, University Hospital, Toulouse
Fields of Interest:
- Risk factors of disability and frailty in the elderly people,
- Biological and pharmacological risks of neuropsychological disorders in aged people,
- Risk factors of cognitive decline in the elderly people,
- Associations between depression, visual impairment and disability,
- Statistical modeling: Generalized linear mixed model.
Main responsibilities and grants
- Head of the statistical modeling platform Inserm U1061
- Grant ANR VISA Project 2010-PRSP-011
- Grant IReSP 2007, HandiCode Project
- Grant Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale 2014, ELIANE-DEP project