Jean (François Marie) Aicardi (8 November 1926 – 3 August 2015) was a French pediatric neurologist and epileptologist.
He, along with Alexis Arzimanoglou, created the journal Epileptic Disorders in 1999.
He was a research fellow in Harvard Medical School from 1955 to 1956, and back in France he was an assistant physician at Hôpital des Enfants Malades Paris from 1957 to 1964, and an assistant physician at Hôpital Saint-Vincent de Paul from 1974 to 1979.
[5] He received many academic honours and distinctions, including: He was author or coauthor of many outstanding textbooks, including: He was editor-in-chief (1994–2004) and founding editor of the journal Epileptic Disorders and a member of the editorial boards and a reviewer of other journals, including Neuropediatrics, Brain and Development, Pediatric Neurology, Journal of Child Neurology, Epilepsia, Lancet Neurology and Brain.
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