Ô Full Professor of Internal Medicine, Lariboisière hospital, Paris (Since September 2008)
Ô Associate Professor in Internal Medicine, Lariboisière hospital, Paris (Since May 2005)
Ô Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine, Lariboisière hospital, Paris (2001-2005)
Ô Paris University Hospital’s Residency in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease Program (Numerus Clausus with 10% passing rate (1994-1999)
Ô Graduated Magne cum Laude (October 1999)
Ô Medical school, XAVIER-BICHAT hospital, University of Paris VII (1988-1993)
Ô School leaving certificate, scientific section (1987)
Ô Hepatic drug metabolism evaluation using the Caffeine test and the 14C Erythromycin Breath Test (ERMBT)
Ô Pioneer in the use of the ERMBT in Europe in 2000
Ô Ganciclovir assay, saquinavir assay, and Caffeine metabolites assays, using sensitive and reproducible HPLC methods
Ô Quantitative and qualitative protein measurement using immunoblotting techniques
Ô Nucleic acid extraction from human tissue samples
Ô P-glycoprotein measurement in peripheral lymphocytes using flow cytometry
Ô Clinical trials performance
Intestinal absorption and hepatic metabolism in HIV-infected patients with and without diarrhea
Use of the 14C-Erythromycin Breath Test to individualize the dosing regimen in HIV-infected patients starting a new HAART
Ô Evaluation of intestinal absorption and permeability in HIV-infected patients with and without diarrhea and weight loss
Ô Use of the Caco-2 cell culture system engineered to co-express intestinal P-glycoprotein and cytochrome P450 (CYP)3A4/5
Ô Use of various pharmacogenetic tools in clinical trials determined by RT-PCR, including MDR1, CYP3A4, CYP3A5, CYP2C9 and CYP2D6 genetic polymorphisms
Ô Modeling
Pharmacokinetic analyses (by compartmental and noncompartmental methods) using Winnonlin or equivalent
Population pharmacokinetics (by compartmental and noncompartmental methods) using MICROPHARM MP2 and NONMEM
Ô Other softwares
Data analysis and presentation (EXCEL-POWERPOINT)
Statistical analysis (STATVIEW)
Ô Communication
Interaction with clinical and pharmacological research staffs to implement and complete pharmacokinetic and clinical studies
Creation of a scientific interactive database available at
http://bigfoot.med.unc.edu/watkinsLab