Georges Salamon received his medical training and performed his neurologic residency in Marseilles. He was a pupil of Professor Henri Gastaut in neurology, and Dr. Robert Naquet in neurophysiology. During this time, Professor Gastaut asked him to begin a new development in neurosciences—neuroradiology. He worked in Paris as a pupil of Professor Herman Fischgold, and achieved his specialization at the Serafimer Hospital in Sweden, followed by Karolinska with Professor Eric Lindgren. In addition, he improved his knowledge at Columbia University in New York with Juan Taveras, Ernest Wood, and Sadek Hilal, at Mount Sinai with Y. Peng Huang, Cornell University with Gordon Potts, and New York University with Norman Chase, Irvin Kricheff, and Norman Leeds. Subsequently, Dr. Salamon worked at Massachusetts General in Boston with Paul New, at the new unit of neuroradiology led by Giovanni Di Chiro in Bethesda, at the University of California San Francisco with Hans Newton, and at the University of California Los Angeles with William Hanafee and Gabriel Wilson.
In 1966, he created the INSERM Research Unit, the equivalent of NIH, under Professor Gastaut. This was a laboratory devoted to the anatomic basis of neuroimaging. In this laboratory, Dr. Salamon performed some vascular research under the guidance of Dean Guy Lazorthes from Toulouse. Dr. Salamon was awarded the position of Chairman of Radiology in Marseilles in 1972. In Paris, after the discovery of positron-emission tomography, Dr. Salamon started work as the anatomic consultant in the Atomic Commission Center of Orsay, under the direction of Andre Syrota.
During his scientific life in France, he published an Atlas of Arteries of the Human Brain, and with Y.P. Huang published a book on radiologic anatomy of the brain. He was the main author of 250 publications, and directed several INSERM symposia on anatomy and neuroradiology, held in collaboration with his colleagues from the United States, United Kingdon, Germany, Sweden, Japan, and France. Among his French colleagues were Jean Marie Caille, Rene Djindjian, Andre Gouaze, Jacques Laffont, Claude Manelfe, Charles Raybaud, and Luc Picard. In years past, Dr. Salamon attended many ASNR meetings and presented many of his research works. He was the guest speaker at the ASNR annual meeting in Boston in 1983. He also gave many lectures in major countries of the world.
Dr. Salamon and his wife Noriko have resided in the United States for the past 11 years. Noriko is an Assistant Professor of Radiology in the section of neuroradiology at the University of California Los Angeles.
Georges Salamon, MD
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