Thomas Salaets is a pediatric cardiologist at the University Hospitals of Leuven. He was trained in Leuven as a pediatric cardiologist, and did an additional subspecialty training in pediatric echocardiography in the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto (Canada). As a pediatric cardiologist he is responsible for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of congenital heart defects. His focus domain is imaging in congenital heart disease. He has a special interest in neonatology, after an early career PhD on bronchopulmonary dysplasia.