Jean-Michel Macron

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]

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]

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]