Scientific Committee of the Social Paediatrics Award
Below are summaries of the professional careers of the members of the Scientific Committee on the Social Paediatrics Award
Dr. Odile Kremp-Roussey
Paediatrician, hospital practitioner, and Doctor in Public Health from the University of Nancy 1, Dr. Odile Kremp has held various different hospital posts of responsibility in neonatology and paediatrics, first at the CHU University Hospital in Amiens, and later at the Saint-Antoine Hospital in Lille. Authorised to direct research in paediatrics and public health, she has been Professor of paediatrics at the free faculty of medicine at Lille since 1998.
She was Chairwoman of the International Club for Social Paediatrics from 1994 to 1998.
In 2008, Odile Kremp was leader of the mission for Monitoring the French national “Rare Diseases” plan at the Ministry of Health. In June 2010, she was appointed Supervisor for “Chronic illness, cancer, and ageing”.
She has carried out 17 paediatrics missions to Vietnam since 1993 under a scientific collaboration programme directed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is Professor, Honoris Causae, at the Medical University of Hanoi (2010).
Dr. Jacques Cheymol
Head of the Public Health and Social Paediatrics Committee at the French Paediatrics Society (SFP), Dr. Jacques Cheymol has a private practice in paediatrics in Clichy, Hauts de Seine. A consultant in preventive paediatrics from 1978 to 1998 in Seine-Saint-Denis, he has carried out extensive work on matters of public health (infantile lead poisoning, vaccinations, nutrition, etc.), organising, for example, a network for the prevention of, and fight against, obesity in infancy, childhood, and adolescence (REPOP), and taking part in the sickle-cell anaemia network and the perinatal network. He also organises a further medical training scheme for city paediatricians and Mother and Child Welfare staff (MCW) at the Necker Hospital for Sick Children in Paris.
Dr. Brigitte Samson
A member of the Board of Directors of the French Paediatrics Society, Dr Brigitte Samson practices as a paediatrician in the General Council of Val-de-Marne.
After extended practice in MCW (Mother and Child Welfare) where she continues to devote some time to consultancy, since the end of 2003 she has been working as a paediatrician in the Child Welfare Programme (Aide Sociale à l'Enfance - ASE). Her working time is shared between the CRIP (a unit for gathering information of concern) and the emergency shelter in the Val-du-Marne on the one hand, and on the other to the health of children under the responsibility of the ASE in the same district.
Fatima Khermache
Currently the Director of a crèche in Paris, Fatima Kermache is a child healthcare worker and a member of the National Association of State Registered Childcare Workers (Association Nationale des Puéricultrices Diplômées d’Etat - ANPDE).
She is a member of the research committee of the D’une langue à l’autre (One Language to Another) (DULALA) which aims to raise awareness among bilingual families and professionals working in a multicultural environment of mother languages and cultures. DULALA believes that all languages and cultures are valid and that they are a source of wealth both for the individual and for society.
Fatima Khermache is currently completing training as a manager of social and cultural organisations at the National Conservatory for Arts and Trades (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers - CNAM) and will shortly be defending her paper on the professional autonomy of infant care workers.
Annick Sailland
Annick Sailland has been the Director of the School of Childcare at the Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Denis, in Seine-Saint-Denis since 1997. Currently, as a qualified professional, she takes part in ministerial working groups in drafting professional standards and training for the improvement of childcare practices.
Between 1986 and 1993, she worked as a childcare teacher at the Departmental School of Childcare in Hauts-de-Seine. She took part in the preparation and joint promotion of teaching courses on “health policy and the community approach to public health”. Previously she had worked in childcare in maternity wards and as a nurse in cardiology, cancer, and general medicine at Le Mans, in Sarthe.
Author of specialist articles, member of the editorial committee of the journal Soins Pédiatrie–Puériculture, Annick Sailland is a member of the scientific committee of the “Early Intervention” portal at the General Directorate for Health and the Academy of Nursing.
Ginette Delamézière
Psychologist, doctor in psychopathology, and psychoanalyst, Ginette Delamézière is now in retirement from her post as a teacher of psychopathology at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne. She is in private practice as a psychologist and analyst, working with both children and adults.
