Agnes Buzyn
Agnès Buzyn (born November 1, 1962 in Paris ) is a French doctor , hematologist and politician . She was Minister of Health in the Philippe Cabinet from May 15, 2017 to February 16, 2020 . Before that, she was president of the French national cancer research center, Institut national du cancer, from 2011 and head of the highest health authority Haute Autorité de santé from 2016 . After Benjamin Griveaux's retirement in February 2020, she is LREM's candidate for the mayor of Paris . Olivier Véran became the new Minister of Health .
Life
Buzyn comes from a Jewish family. Her paternal grandparents, who lived in Łódź in Poland , were deported to Auschwitz and murdered there, while her father Élie Buzyn (* 1929) survived. He emigrated to Israel and finally settled in France in 1956, where he practiced as an orthopedic surgeon. Her mother Etty Buzyn (* 1935), who survived the war hiding with a family in the Ain department , is a psychologist , psychoanalyst and author of several books on the psychology of childhood. Buzyn himself was married to one of Simone Veil's sons for the first time and is now married to the immunologist and AIDS researcher Yves Lévy (* 1957), with whom she has three children.
Buzyn attended the École alsacienne in Paris before studying medicine at the Université Paris-Descartes . She worked as a hematologist at the Hôpital Necker , obtained her doctorate in 2000 and has held the status of professeure des universités - praticienne hospitalière since 2004 , i.e. H. she taught at a university and practiced as a doctor in a hospital at the same time. She specialized in tumor research , transplantation and cancer research . Based on this expertise, she has been active in various government bodies since 2008 that deal with the health consequences of nuclear energy . In July 2020, the French judiciary opened an investigation against them for possible failures in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic .
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Buzyn, Agnes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French doctor and minister of health |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |