Marie Besson

Professor Marie Besson is the head of the Psychopharmacology Unit at the Geneva University Hospitals (GUH). She completed her medical training and specializations in Internal Medicine and in Clinical Pharmacology at GUH and the University of Bristol, UK. For many years, she co-directed the interdisciplinary pain consultation at GUH. Her strong interest in a holistic approach to verbal and non-verbal adults affected by intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) was triggered by supervising complex clinical cases. This led her to co-design the TOP-ID approach, an innovative framework focused on the pharmacological treatment of frequent clinical conditions within this population. She is the author of numerous scientific publications focusing on pain management and the care of adults with IDD.