Biografia
-Jean-François Chicoine is a pediatrician at CHU Sainte-Justine and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Université de Montréal, from which he graduated in medicine and pediatrics after specialized training at Hôpital Necker-Enfants malades and SAMU in Paris. While practicing emergency pediatrics, notably in the field of medical evacuations and at Sainte-Justine, he began a career as a scientific educator in the print and electronic media, working on a variety of subjects concerning the health and rights of children and teenagers. After working in the infectious diseases and pediatrics departments, he pursued his clinical and teaching career with hospitalized children and in outpatient pediatrics, before devoting himself to child protection, with consultations on adoption, attachment, school trajectories, filiations and international health. His interest in the health of the world's children has led him to initiate various global health projects in orphanages around the world, notably in Vietnam with Terre des Hommes Canada. An advocate for children and their families, he is the author of several scientific publications, essays, books, documentaries, editorials, radio and TV series in the fields of attachment, family, free play, childcare, abandonment/adoption and travel medicine. Her topics of interest include the interface between culture and medicine, health education, children's development and schooling, the development of their imagination, the impact of screens on the brain, anti-vaccine movements, identity movements, baby trafficking, migration and the rights of the world's children and teenagers. In 2002, he co-founded Le Monde est ailleurs, a society dedicated to defending the health and rights of 0-18 year-olds and their families, through media interventions, publications, professional training and interdisciplinary or public conferences that act as parenting schools in Quebec and Europe. In 2013, he obtained his license to practice pediatrics in France. In the Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Chicoine is passionate about the human and developmental sciences, education and communications, prevention and the promotion of children's health, as well as the history of childhood, pediatrics and Sainte-Justine as a flagship institution in the Americas. With "Mauvaise étoile" and "Mourir en vie", inspired by his pediatrician father, he has added film writing to his career path.
