Marius Fieschi MD PhD, is Honorary Professor of Public Health (Medical Informatics) at the Faculty of Medicine of Marseille.
He created and directed, in this same faculty, the teaching and research laboratory on the treatment of medical information (LERTIM) and was vice-president of the Université de la Méditerranée (2008-2011)
Author or co-author of books on the treatment of medical information and of numerous scientific publications indexed in Medline.
Head of the public health and medical information department at the Timone hospital in Marseille, he was the first head of a public health unit at the Assitance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille.
Consultant to the Ministry of Health (Hospital Direction) from 1989 to 1994, he is the author of several reports to ministers of health.
His research work has addressed the topics of medical decision support, medical expert systems, applications of artificial intelligence to medicine and health information systems: representation of medical concepts, semantic references and management of knowledge, computerized good practice guides, computerized patient record.
Prof. Marius Fieschi has held positions in various national and international scholarly societies and in editorial committees of international scientific journals.