- Vice-President of the National Board of AGAT (19912001, French Association for the Turner syndrom). This syndrom affects young girls (lack or partial destruction of a X chromosome that leads, among other things to a lack of growthing). Information may also be found at the Turner's Syndrome Society of the U.S,, and a general information (in French) here.

- Member of the Planning Committee of the International Conference on Turner Syndrome (TS-2000), Chicago, USA, August 2000.

- Co-author with Lynn Tesch of a submitted paper entitled "Turner syndrome towards a human-cered approach"

- An ancestor at the Commune of Paris (1870) and a general presentation of the known part of my family.