[3] Born in Bastia, where his father was the director of customs (a native of Lorraine), Pierre Huard studied at the École de santé navale (Brest and Bordeaux)[4] before being posted to Syria, then in French Indochina.

In 1957, he became medical officer of the troupes de marine, appointed professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Rennes (1955–1963) then at that of Paris (1967-1973).

From 1964 to 1966, he was Rector of the University of Abidjan, then study director at the École pratique des hautes études (1966-1973).

[1] He also was a member of the Society of Anthropology of Paris[2] In 1967, he was awarded the Prix Broquette-Gonin for his book Mille ans de chirurgie (Ve–XVe).

The publications of Pierre Huard, in addition to those of a purely medical nature (surgery and tropical medicine), mainly concern the history of medicine, surgery and life sciences, the history of science in Vietnam, Japanese and traditional Chinese medicine (with Ming Wong and Zensetsou Ohya), The history of anatomy and surgery (with Mirko Grmek).