Henri Joyeux

Henri Joyeux, born on 28 June 1945 in Montpellier, is a French oncologic surgeon, nutrition specialist and writer. He graduated from the University of Montpellier in 1972 with a thesis on the artificial gut and total parenteral nutrition, became a surgeon at the Regional Cancer Institute of Montpellier in 1973, and was made professor of oncology there in 1980 and of general surgery in 1986. He received the Antoine Lacassagne award in 1986 for work on artificial nutrition in digestive tract cancers, headed the visceral and digestive surgery department of the Curie Institute in Paris from 1992, joined the French National Academy of Surgery in 1994, was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2008 and retired in 2014. He also wrote popular books on nutrition and health, led the family association Familles de France, and became a controversial public figure for his skeptical statements on vaccination, which led the French medical order to file a complaint in 2020.