{"id":4206,"date":"2020-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:39:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:39:16","slug":"dr-jacques-f-acar-infectious-disease-specialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=4206","title":{"rendered":"Dr Jacques F. Acar, infectious disease specialist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Jacques F. Acar \u2011 known as expert of microbiology and infectious diseases in France and around the world \u2011 passed away on 27 March,2020 at the age of 88 due to COVID-19.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

In 1966, Acar became head of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Hôspital Saint-Joseph in Paris, staying there until 1999. At the same time, he was head of Medical Microbiology at the Hôpital Broussais. He was a professor of medical microbiology at Pierre and Marie Curie University from 1973 until 1980, and was head of that department from 1980 to 2000.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Acar was President of the World Health Organization's taskforce on antimicrobial resistance from 1992 to 1996. He served as editor-in-chief of Clinical Microbiology and Infection from 1995 to 2000, and an expert for the World Organisation for Animal Health from 1999 until his death. In 2015, he became part of a taskforce of the French Ministry of Health for antimicrobial resistance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

After a vacation in the United States, Acar was hospitalized on 22 March 2020, and died of COVID-19 on 27 March. His death was widely mourned in the scientific world, including many of his former students and colleagues<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He was the author of more than 500 publications.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

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