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Hospices Civils de Lyon

As a Public Centre of Excellence, Hospices Civils de Lyon is the second largest University Hospital Network in France. It puts together 14 multidisciplinary or specialised establishments and provides a various range of services and areas of expertise in all medical and surgical disciplines. HCL is ranked among the 25 best hospitals in the world.

HCL represents:

  • 23,000 professionals, of which more than 5,000 are physicians
  • More than 950,000 appointments a year
  • An annual budget of 1.5 billion Euros
  • More than 1.3 million hospitalisation days (including long stays)
  • 3 maternity wards that can manage pathological pregnancies and premature babies
  • More than 280,000 trips to emergency services, 399 organ transplants, 11,000 births.

For over 200 years, as a network providing expertise in all disciplines – both medical and surgical – Hospices Civils de Lyon has offered a wide range of human, technical and logistical resources to ensure that it provides care, training, research, medical innovation as well as disease prevention and health education.

Contribution to PreciseOnco

As a leading center for interventional radiology in France with an international reputation, the Hospices Civils de Lyon is a key partner in this consortium. Organized across various departments within the institution, interventional radiologists treat a wide range of conditions, particularly in the field of interventional oncology, whether to treat the tumors themselves or the pain they may cause. Patients are offered a comprehensive care pathway, ranging from dedicated hospital beds to coordinated multidisciplinary follow-up.

Team

Pr. Jean-Baptiste Pialat, MD, PhD

Jean-Baptiste Pialat is Professor at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 and Deputy Head of the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Lyon Sud University Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, France. He serves as Vice-Chair of the French Society of Radiology Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (SFR AuRA), Executive Committee Member of the French Society of Musculoskeletal Imaging (SIMS), and Vice-Chair of the Spine Subcommittee of the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology (ESSR).

His clinical and research interests focus on musculoskeletal imaging, image-guided interventions and minimally invasive treatments of bone and joint tumor and other disorders

Pr. Laurent Milot, MD, PhD

Laurent Milot is full Professor of interventional radiology at the University Claude Bernard Lyon1, deputy chief of the imaging department at Edouard Herriot Hospital and deputy chief of the imaging department of the hospices civils de Lyon, France. He is general secretary of the French College of Radiology, an executive member of the medical education committee of the European Society of Radiology and an executive member of the French Society of Abdominal Imaging.

His clinical and research interests focus on Interventional Oncology through innovation, especially ion the fields of advanced robotics and imaging biomarkers.