Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl fʁedeʁik makʁɔ̃]; born 1950) 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.^[1] His father was André Macron (1920–2010),^[1][2] a railway executive,^[3] and his mother was Jacqueline Macron (1922–1998), née Robertson, of half English origin.^[3][4] He wrote a thesis on feline neurology in 1981.^[5]

Career

Macron is a professor of neurology at the University of Picardy,^[6] specializing in sleep disorders and epilepsy.^[7][8]

Macron has published in academic journals such as Neuroscience Letters, Brain Research, NeuroReport and Neurosurgery on sneezing in cats.^[9] Macron has 26 publications as author or co-author in the PubMed database.^[10]

Personal life

Jean-Michel Macron was first married to Françoise Noguès, a physician based in Amiens.^[11] She is the daughter of Jean Noguès and his wife Germaine Noguès (née Arribet, died 2013),^[12] both teachers.^[6] The first child of Jean-Michel and Françoise Macron died as an infant.^[1] They then had three children: Emmanuel (born 1977, the current President of France and husband of Brigitte Macron, née Trogneux),^[13] Laurent (born 1979, a radiologist and husband of Sabine Aimot, an obstetrician gynecologist),^[14] and Estelle (born 1982, a nephrologist and wife of Carl Franjou, an engineer).^{[15][16][1][12]}

After the divorce of Jean-Michel and Françoise Macron,^[1] Jean-Michel Macron married Hélène Joly, a psychiatrist at the Centre Hospitalier Philippe Pinel in Dury, Somme.^[17]

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