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Didier Raoult

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Didier Raoult (French pronunciation: [didje ʁa.ul(t)]; born 13 March 1952) is a retired French physician and microbiologist specialising in infectious diseases. He taught about infectious diseases at the Faculty of Medicine of Aix-Marseille University (AMU), and in 1984, created the Rickettsia Unit of the university. From 2008 to 2022, Raoult was the director of the Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes. He gained significant worldwide attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for vocally promoting hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the disease, despite lack of evidence for its effectiveness and the subsequent opposition from NIH and WHO to its use for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Didier Raoult is the 630th most popular physician (down from 600th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Senegal and the most popular Senegalese Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Didier Raoult ranks 630 out of 726. Before him are Halfdan T. Mahler, Anders Tegnell, Jacinto Convit, Maurice Raynaud, Joel Roberts Poinsett, and Stuart Kauffman. After him are Greene Vardiman Black, Georgi Valkovich, Yevgeniy Chazov, Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet, and Bernard Nathanson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Didier Raoult ranks 441. Before him are Kama Sywor Kamanda, Dragan Šakota, John L. Hennessy, Vittorio Sgarbi, Rosemarie Trockel, and Brigitte Engerer. After him are Dave Loebsack, Valeriy Pidluzhnyy, Albert Camille Vital, Maleeha Lodhi, Patti Davis, and Benny Hinn.

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In Senegal

Among people born in Senegal, Didier Raoult ranks 27 out of 138. Before him are Mamadou Dia (1910), Ba Mamadou Mbaré (1946), Jacques Diouf (1938), Mahammed Dionne (1959), Aminata Sow Fall (1941), and Idrissa Gueye (1989). After him are Fatma Samoura (1962), Aliou Cissé (1976), Habib Koité (1958), Birago Diop (1908), Ibrahim Ba (1973), and Habib Thiam (1933).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Senegal

Among physicians born in Senegal, Didier Raoult ranks 1. After him are Marie Senghor Basse (1930).

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