Nicolas GIRERD, MD, PhD, professor of Therapeutics, is a cardiologist and biostatistician currently deputy director of the Nancy Plurithematic Clinical Investigation Center (CIC)-Inserm, France. He completed is Cardiology training in Lyon, France, and completed his Masters degree in Clinical Epidemiology in Québec, Canada. He obtained a PhD in Biostatistics focused on treatment effect evaluation in survival models in Lyon, France.