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French doctor and politician
This article is about the French politician. For the philosopher Jean-Francois Mattei, see
Jean-Francois Mattei
.
Jean-Francois Mattei
(born 14 January 1943) is a French doctor and politician.
Medical career
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Jean-Francois Mattei is a professor of
pediatrics
and
genetics
.
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He served as the director of Genetics at the
teaching hospital
of Marseilles.
He was an advisor of the
Comite consultatif national d'ethique
(CCNE) until 1997, and has been a titular member of the French
Academie Nationale de Medecine
since June 2000.
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He was also the president of the
French Red Cross
.
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until 22 June 2013.
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Elected positions
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On 4 December 1989, he was elected to the second district of
Bouches-du-Rhone
, replacing
Jean-Claude Gaudin
, who had been elected to the Senate; he was then re-elected to this position in 1993, 1997, and 2002.
[5]
Dominique Tian
replaced him in 2007. Since 1983 he has been a councillor of the municipality of
Marseille
, and a regional advisor for
Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
. Mattei originally belonged to the
Union for French Democracy
(UDF), and was elected chairman of the Liberal Democracy and Independents (DLI) when it split from the UDF in October 2000. Later he joined
Union for a Popular Movement
(UMP).
Role in 2003 heat wave
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Mattei served as health minister during the
2003 European heat wave
, in which over 11000 French people, mostly elderly, died of heat-related illnesses.
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