Didier Raoult not renewed at the head of the IHU? In any case, this is the wish of the new director of Public Assistance-Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM), François Crémieux and Eric Berton, president of Aix-Marseille University. As relates
The world, Didier Raoult will no longer be a university professor-hospital practitioner (PU-PH) within Aix-Marseille University and Marseille University Hospitals, on August 31, after retirement. The director of the IHU has made a request for combined employment and retirement, but the APHM does not plan to grant him this request.
“Need to turn a page”
François Crémieux, and Eric Berton, representatives of two of the founding members of the IHU, want the foundation that manages the institute that Didier Raoult has directed since 2011 to launch a call for tenders at the start of the school year to find a successor for him. “There is a need to turn a page and organize the future of the IHU for the next twenty years. We have to go quickly, launch the process in the fall to be successful between the end of the year and the beginning of 2022, ”François Crémieux told Le Monde.
Didier Raoult could remain director of the IHU, without the status of hospital practitioner or academic, which would not be reasonable according to François Crémieux. It is now up to the directors of the AP-HM and Aix Marseille University to convince the other founding members of the IHU: the Army health service, the Mérieux Institute, the French Blood Establishment, and the IRD , especially. Didier Raoult’s latest positions on the vaccine or the Delta variant only confirmed the AP-HM and AMU in their wish to see him leave his functions at the IHU.