Francine Leca Explained

Francine Leca
Birth Date:	1938 5, df=y
Birth Place:	Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Nationality:	French
Professor of Medicine specialising in cardiac surgery

Francine Leca (20 May 1938 – 15 June 2024) was a French cardiac surgeon and professor of medicine specialising in heart surgery, a pioneer of the discipline in pediatrics.

Biography

Francine Leca gravitated toward medicine at a very young age. During an internship in cardiac surgery under professor Jean Mathey at Laennec Hospital, she assisted her first open heart surgery. As an intern at hôpitaux de Paris, she discovered pediatric cardiac surgery under Professor George Lemoine. She went on to specialize in congenital heart defects.^[1]

Leca was the first woman to become a cardiac surgeon in France,^[2] and was the chief of services of cardiac surgery, first at Laennec Hospital and then Necker (Paris) until 2003.

In 1996 Leca along with Patrice Roynette founded the organization - Enfant du Monde (Mécénat Cardiac Surgery - Child of the World) which raises funds to treat children with serious heart conditions who could not otherwise receive treatment in their home countries.^[3]

Leca died on 15 June 2024, at the age of 86.^[4]

Distinctions

• Grand officer of the Legion of Honour^[5]
• Grand officer of the ordre national du Mérite

Honors

• The Prize of Tolerance 2015.^[6]
• of 1998

Bibliography

• Elizabeth Drévillon, Professeur Leca : Chirurgien du cœur, Éditions Anne Carrière, 2003.
• Elide Montesi, « Francine Leca », in Les filles d'Hippocrate, Les Éditions Acrodacrolivres, 2014,

External links

• « Francine Leca, à cœur ouvert », À voix nue, par Claire Pouly-Borgeaud. Réalisation : Rafik Zenine. France Culture, May 2016.
• Margaux Rambert, « Francine Leca, à cœur ouvert », psychologies.com, November 2010.

Notes and References

1. News: Merlin . Benoît . Francine Leca: on entre dans le moteur et on répare . Cles magazine . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923204913/http://www.cles.com/depassement-de-soi/article/francine-leca#federation=archive.wikiwix.com . 23 September 2015 . 28 March 2022 . dead .
2. Web site: Bonnec . Sidonie . 9 March 2022 . Francine Leca, la première femme à être devenue chirurgienne cardiaque en France . 28 March 2022 . France Bleu . fr.
3. Web site: Gilbert . Charles . 9 October 1997 . Francine Leca, chirurgienne: «Je me suis accrochée, c'est tout» . 29 March 2022 . LExpress.fr . fr.
4. News: Francine Leca, première chirurgienne cardiaque de France, est décédée . 16 June 2024 . Ouest France . 15 June 2024.
5. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000038759128.
6. Web site: March 2015 . Prix de la Tolérance 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160206141113/http://www.marcel-rudloff-tolerance.com/defendre-l-esprit-de-tolerance/prix-de-la-tolerance/prix-de-la-tolerance-2015#federation=archive.wikiwix.com . 6 February 2016 . fr . 29 March 2022 . dead .