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Elizabeth Bergogne-Berezin

 

Professor of Microbiology

Editor, Journal Antibiotiques

Masson Publisher

100bis rue du cherche-Midi

75006 Paris, France

Tel: 33 1 40490674 / 33 1 45491300

E-mail: berezbiol@aol.com

 

     Eugenie Bergogne-Berezin, M.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Clinical Microbiology, at the University Paris 7.  She is a Doctor in Medicine who specialized in Microbiology-Infectious Diseases and she has developed a large Microbiology Department at the Bichat Hospital for Clinical Microbiology and Research.  She has developed several fields of research at the University Hospital, Bichat-Claude-Bernard in Paris.  She is currently a Consultant in Microbiology and Pharmacology of Antibiotics.  Her current academic title is Professor Emeritus in Microbiology.

     Her main topics of interest are: Acinetobacter spp. As a nosocomial pathogen (epidemiology, resistance, infections); pharmacology of antibiotics including tissue and body fluid distribution, pharmacokinetics, and the pharmacodynamics of antibacterials; intestinal microbial ecology, jejunal flora, bacterial adhesion to intestinal mucosa, and impact of antibiotic therapy on intestinal flora. 

     Dr. Bergogne-Berezin works as an advisor for pharmaceutical companies (French Ministry of Health), as an expert in pharmacology-toxicology, specializing in Microbiology. 

      She is current a member of the International and French Scientific Societies of Advisory Boards of Pharmaceutical Companies.  She also serves on many scientific committees and editorial boards of international medical journals.  She works as a referee for many international journals including the Journal of Antimicrobial Therapy, Journal Chemotherapy, Clinical Microbiology Infection, Lancet, Drugs (Adis), Bioscience Ediprint.  She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Antibiotiques” which she launched 3 years ago (1999, Masson Publisher, Vivendi Group).

      Dr. Bergogne-Berezin has published over 200 international articles, six medical books (3 in English) and has contributed to chapters in recent international books of infectious diseases (Mosby), Pneumology (Respiratory Infection, James Pennington Ed., Raven Press) and Antimicrobial Therapy and Vaccines (V.L. Yu).