Sexual & Reproductive Health and Family Planning

Biography

Serreau Raphael, started pharmacology in 1997. Upon completion of his doctorate in Pharmacology at the University of Paris V Rene Descartes in 2007 about Risk Management Plan during pregnancy and breastfeeding, Pr Raphal Serreau joined the Center of Clinical Research in Cochin and Necker Hospital in Paris where he directed research combining Perinatology and Pharmacology. (www.premup.org). He worked also in Necker University in EA 3620 “VIH Child-Mother Unit”. In 2012 with Prof Tabassome Simon (St Antoine Hospital, Paris), Prof Robert Barouki (Necker Hospital, Paris) and Jean-Luc Volatier (ANSES, Maisons-Alfort), Prof Serreau obtained a grant for his research fields about contaminants and breast milk. He‘s team got half million euros to do contalait study. 180 women were included in 6 milk banks in France (Lyon, Paris, Lille, Montpellier, Bordeaux and Nantes) during 18 months. Heavy metals, PCB, furans, dioxins and different contaminants were dosed in breast milk. Tuna Fish consumption and dental filling were responsible of high methyl mercury concentrations in breast milk. Contaminants should be assess regularly in lactating women. In 2019 Prof Raphael Serreau became Director of PARADICT-O center in Orleans Metropole and his team reach the EA INSERM Psycomadd in AP-HP 6 University of Paris Saclay (Prof Amine Benyamina).

Research Interest

Risk Management Plan during pregnancy and breastfeeding