Dr. Philippe Jr Timmermans graduated as cardiologist in 2013 at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), after which he obtained board certification in acute and intensive medicine at the same institution. From 2014, he stan advanced heart failure and transplantation fellowship in Leuven, which was combined with participation in the first ESC postgraduate course on...
Dr. Karen Van den Bussche, a nursing graduate in 2010 and holder of a Master’s in Nursing and Midwifery since 2012, earned her Ph.D. in Life Sciences in 2018. During her doctoral studies, she specialized in developing and validating measurement tools for incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD). Currently, Karen serves as a researcher at UZ Brussel’s Center...
Dr. Vanassche earned a medical degree from the University of Leuven in Belgium. He trained in internal medicine and cardiology at the University Hospital in Leuven. His doctoral research at the Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology focused on the interactions between infection, inflammation and coagulation. As a doctoral and postdoctoral researcher, dr. Vanassche was...
Arco Teske obtained his PhD in 2009 with his thesis “echocardiographic quantification of regional right ventricular function”. After his specialty training he obtained a staff position in the University Medical Center Utrecht at the department of cardiology. He is head of the echo-department and a heart-valve specialist within the structural intervention team. He started the...
Pr Sevestre is head of vascular medicine dept in CHU Amiens and teaches vascular medicine in Université Picardie Jules Verne. She has recently leaded the french society for vascular medicine and the « collège des enseignants de médecine vasculaire » She is part of a network dedicated to the study of rare arterial diseases « Fava-Multi » and...
Prof. Dr. Tomas Robyns is a cardiologist with special expertise in cardiogenetics and electrophysiology. He is the head of the Centre for hereditary heart disease at the University hospitals Leuven. His research focuses on the genotype phenotype relation of inherited cardiomyopathies and arrhythmia syndromes.
