The auditorium « Jacques Marescaux » was inaugurated by Prof. Antoine Maalouf, President of the French Hospital of the Levant in Beirut (Lebanon) and President of IRCAD Lebanon, on Saturday, July 20, with Jacques & Alice Marescaux and Michel Deneken, President of the University of Strasbourg.
In autumn 2019, this brand-new auditorium, equipped with 100 seats, will welcome surgeons from all countries in the Middle East to acquire training in the latest practices of minimally invasive surgery.
The training center will be the 4th international branch of IRCAD after Taiwan in 2008, Barretos (Sao Paulo) in 2011, and Rio de Janeiro in 2017.