Professor Mariane de Montalembert received her MD and her PhD in Ethics from the Paris Descartes Medical School. She specialized in pediatrics, statistics (option clinical research), red cell diseases, especially hemoglobinopathies, in children, and transfusion.
She is co-responsible for the Hemoglobin Diseases Unit at the Necker University Hospital, which follows 700 children and the «ROFSED» healthcare network for SCD children in the Parisian area.
Prof de Montalembert is a member of the French Society of Pediatrics, in which she has chaired for more than 10 years the Ethic Committee, of the French Society of Hematology, the European Reference Network in rare Haematological Diseases (EuroBloodNet), the European Association (EHA), and the American Society of Hematology (ASH). She has been member of the EHA Board for the period 2020-2024 and she coordinates the EHA Topic in Focus group on hemoglobinopathies since 2023.