Appointments - Corresponding member of the 4th section

Bernard, former president of AERN, has been elected to the Académie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, a prestigious international institution whose website and presentation you can consult if you're interested.

While we await his official installation at a date yet to be determined, we'd like to offer him our warmest congratulations!

Bernard Lefèvre is Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the French Armed Forces Health Service, surgeon, President of the Syndicat des Anciens Médecins des Armées and CEO of L2BW.

Receiving 2nd place in the national Naval Health examination, he completed his post-graduate studies in Bordeaux, developing the 1st continuous pH fetal monitoring system, for which he was awarded top honors in his doctoral thesis (1973). He went on to train as a gynecologist, aeronautical doctor and tropical physician.
After an assignment as a doctor in the Amazon, he passed his competitive examination in general surgery and was posted to the Army Training Hospitals in Paris.

He also holds a diploma in nuclear medicine and administers the Caisse nationale de la Sécurité sociale mlitaire. A consultant at the Hôpital d'instruction des Armées du Val de Grâce, he is also a professor at theÉcole des infirmières militaires (HIA Bégin). A professor at the Red Cross School of Nursing, he also teaches at theInstitut de Thérapie manuelle et d'Ostéopathie.
At the same time, he is involved in a wide range of social, union, associative and entrepreneurial activities.
He is considered a specialist in social solidarity on the one hand, and in military issues on the other, fields in which he has taken part in numerous studies and symposia. He also edits the medical journal "l'AMEPUK" and the "lettre du SAMA".

As regards his medical-military career, he was assigned as a doctor to the 1er Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes in Pau (1973), before being appointed medical officer in charge of the lnini and the Centre de Formation Professionnelle du Service Militaire Adapté in French Guiana for two years (1974-1976).decin chef de l'lnini et du Centre de Formation Professionnelle du Service Militaire Adapté en Guyane for two years (1974-1976), before being appointed head of the psychiatric section at the Cambrai selection center.
After passing the competitive examination to become an army surgeon (1977), he was posted to the Val de Grâce and then to Bégin, before returning to work as a nuclear site surgeon at Mururoa, Hao and Papeete (1979-1980).
After a new assignment at Val de Grâce and then Bégin, he was appointed head of surgical services at Bourges and surgeon of the Antenne Chirurgicale Aérotransportée. With this unit, he carried out the Beirut mission as surgeon to the Multinational Force during the 1983-1984 crisis.
On his return, he was appointed deputy head of gynecological surgery in Paris (HIA Bégin), then head of surgical services in Strasbourg. After early retirement (1985), he joined the Operational Reserve before being promoted to Chief Medical Officer Colonel (1991).

He is retiring from medicine and surgery (2011), having performed over 20,000 surgical procedures and deliveries on five continents during his career. To this day, he continues his responsibilities within a company dedicated to the reintegration of milítaries, further training and the transmission of knowledge and knowledge transfer on an international scale, focusing primarily on African countries, while also chairing the Syndicat des Anciens Médecins des Armées.

General Secretary of a post-graduate teaching association, he is also President of the National Congress of the French Society of Urological Physiotherapists .He is also a member of theFrench Association of Surgeons, the French Society of Gynecology and the National College of French-speaking Gynecologists and Obstetricians. He is a regular speaker at medical symposia and on TV health programs (FR3, TV5, Canal Santé with Jacques Pradel, Brigitte Simonetta, André Bercoff...).

Bernard Lefèvre was elected corresponding member of the 4th section of the FrenchAcademy of Overseas Sciences on 20/06/2025.