Jean-Michel Macron


Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French doctor and professor of neurology at the University of Picardy. He is the father of French president Emmanuel Macron.

Early life

Jean-Michel Macron was born in 1950. His father was André Macron, a railway executive, and his mother was Jacqueline Macron, née Robertson, of English origin. He wrote a thesis on feline neurology in 1981.

Career

Macron is a professor of neurology at the University of Picardy, specializing in sleep disorders and epilepsy.
Macron has published in academic journals such as Neuroscience Letters, Brain Research, NeuroReport and Neurosurgery on sneezing in cats. Macron totalized 28 publications indexed in Pubmed database.

Personal life

Macron was married to Françoise Noguès, a doctor based in Amiens. She is the daughter of Jean Noguès and his wife Germaine Noguès, both teachers.
Their first child died as an infant. They then had three children: Emmanuel, Laurent and Estelle. They divorced, and he married Hélène Joly, a psychiatrist at CHS Pinel-Dury.