2010 Awards ceremony

The 2010 Mustela Foundation awards ceremony was held at the Musée Guimet in Paris in the presence of some hundred child health professionals.
The 2010 Social Paediatrics Prize (€10,000) was awarded to Dr. Marie-Odile Serinet-Orbach, a hospital practitioner working at the Bullion paediatrics and rehabilitation hospital in the commune of Longchêne (78), for her project entitled: "Helium Wednesdays: a solution to the impact that a hospitalised child suffering from chronic illness can have on intra-family relationships (parents and siblings). The results of work carried out jointly by a follow-up paediatric and rehabilitation hospital and a local healthcare network in France’s Yvelines département”.
This year, three research grants were awarded by the members of the Mustela Foundation’s scientific research committee. These were awarded to:
- Louis MATHIOT for his (fourth year) sociology thesis: “Children’s dietary habits: monitoring child culture and intergenerational relationships” (grant of €6,500).
- Marie-Camille GENET for her psychology thesis: “An exploratory analysis of interactive dysfunction and of the narrative future of babies whose mothers suffer from borderline-type personality disorders” (grant of €4,000).
- Elodie PANACCIONE for her clinical psychology (cross-cultural option) doctorate on: "Maternity for transhumant migrant women: a study of maternal representations among homeless African women” (grant of €4,000).
The Research-Action prize was awarded to Joëlle Rochette-Guglielmi, a psychologist and psychoanalyst (member of the French union of sophrologists), for her research-action project: “Towards a semiology of precocious dyadic suffering: an ‘equipped’ study of a clinical population in a joint parent-baby hospital unit". The prize for this project is worth €6,000.