Medicine has always been Dr. Raphael’s calling. “I grew up in a medical household,” he tells us. “My father was a professor of intensive care medicine. My whole life, I wanted to follow in his footsteps. So after finishing school, I studied at the medical faculty of the Pitié Salpêtrière teaching hospital in Paris, and graduated in 1996. My father was and is my role model – I’ve always tried to live up to his sense of integrity and ethics.”