Didier Baert, MD (AZ Maria Middelares, Gent, Belgium)
AZ Maria Middelares, Gent
AZ Maria Middelares, Gent
-Graduated at Ghent University in 1990.
-Gastro-enterologist at
AZ Maria Middelares Ghentsinceoctober
1996.
-Several management courses at Vlerickand
EHSAL.
-Part time medical care manager fortransmural
care at AZMM Ghent.
-Special intrests:
-Quality
care management;
-IBD;
-Video
capsule endoscopy.
Peter Bossuyt, MD (AZ Imelda, Bonheiden, Belgium)
AZ Imelda, Bonheiden
AZ Imelda, Bonheiden
Peter Bossuyt is a gastroenterologist and head of the IBD clinic in the
Imelda General Hospital in Bonheiden, Belgium. He is also Co-director of the
Imelda GI Clinical Research Centre in Bonheiden.
Dr Bossuyt studied medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven,
Belgium, and graduated in 2004 with magna cum laude. He pursued his GI
fellowship in Kortrijk, Roeselare, Bonheiden and Leuven. After completing his
GI fellowship, he took up a fellowship in advanced endoscopy at the Academic
Medical Centre, Amsterdam. Between 2010 and 2015 he was a consulting staff
member for endoscopic ultrasound at the University Hospitals of Leuven. In 2015
he started a PhD entitled, Value of endoscopic scoring and imaging for the
prognosis and follow up of IBD, with Professor Séverine Vermeire as promotor.
His research focuses on clinical trials in IBD and the definitions of
endoscopic and imaging targets in IBD. He is a pioneer in working with e-health
tools in IBD in Belgium.
He is an editorial board member of the Journal of
Crohn’s and Colitis, Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Belgian IBD
Research and Development Group, and board member of ECCO’s Clinical Research
Committee, ClinCom.
Sofie Coenen (UZ Leuven, Belgium)
UZ Leuven
Sofie Coenen studied Biomedical Sciences at KU Leuven. In 2005, she
started working as a study coordinator at the IBD clinical trial unit of UZ
Leuven. After 10 years of clinical trials, she started a PhD entitled ‘Towards
a safe and patient-centered care in inflammatory bowel diseases’. The design of
an IBD mobile app, embedded in the mynexuzhealth app, is 1 of the care
improvement projects in this PhD.
UZ Leuven
Anneline Cremer, MD (Hôpital Erasme ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium)
Hôpital Erasme ULB, Bruxelles
Hôpital Erasme ULB, Bruxelles
Anneline Cremer graduated
from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) medical school, Belgium, in 2010.
She graduated from the Erasme academic Hospital, ULB, Belgium, in
Gastroenterology in 2017 with summa cum laude. Her strong
interest for Gastroenterology and more specifically for Inflammatory Bowel
Disease (IBD) has grown over the years. During her
last year in medical school, she spent 6 months in the Laboratory of
Experimental Gastroenterology (LGE), ULB, in Brussels working on a basic
immunology project.
She started her clinical training in 2010, and started her
Gastroenterology training in October 2013 in the Department of Gastroenterology
of Tivoli Hospital (La Louvière) for six months followed by one year and a half
in the Department of Gastroenterology of ULB-Erasme Hospital. She
received a doctoral research fellowship (October 2015-April 2020) from
the Fonds Erasme (ULB). She also participated as co-investigator in clinical
trials in the field of Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis since November
2015.
She is currently working half time in clinic in the
Department of Gastroenterology of ULB-Erasme Hospital
and half time in the LGE on a translational IBD research project
under
supervision of Prof Denis Franchimont.
Joris Dutré, MD (ZNA Jan Palfijn, Belgium)
ZNA Jan Palfijn
Dr J Dutre holds an MD degree from the university of Ghent. He received part of his training at
the CHU Nantes by Prof Galmiche where he was trained in
motility. After his training he started
working as a gastroenterologist at the Jan Palfijn Hospital Merksem part of ZNA (ziekenhuis network Antwerpen). His special interests are
endoscopy and IBD. He’s
member of BIRD and ECCO and actively involved in phase II and phase III trials studys for IBD.
ZNA Jan Palfijn
Marc Ferrante, MD, PhD (UZ Leuven, Belgium)
UZ Leuven
UZ Leuven
Marc Ferrante is associate
professor at KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). Since 2012, Marc Ferrante is a staff
member of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University
Hospitals Leuven. He is a lecturer for the students of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences, and coach of the clinical fellows in training.
Marc Ferrante pursued his
training in internal medicine and gastroenterology at the KU Leuven. During his
training he performed internships in Tygerberg (Stellenbosch, South-Africa),
Chris Hani Baragwanath (Johannesburg, South-Africa) and
Onze-Lieve-Vrouwziekenhuis (Aalst, Belgium). In 2007, he successfully defended
his PhD, which was entitled “Assessing and predicting disease progression in
IBD: a clinical and molecular approach”. In 2010, Marc Ferrante initiated his
post-doctoral work at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, the Netherlands, under
the supervision of Hans Clevers. Later on he started his own research group at
the KU Leuven in close collaboration with Catherine Verfaillie from the Stem
Cell Institute of Leuven and the IBD team. His group is currently focusing on
the influence of microbiota on intestinal stem cell behaviour and
differentiation in patients with IBD.
Marc Ferrante published more
than 140 papers in high ranked gastroenterology journals (h-index: 37). For his
work he has received numerous research awards including the van
Genechten-Paternoster en Prof G Vantrappen Award, the Willy and Marcy De Vooght
Foundation Award, as well as an ECCO and CREA Research Grant. He was awarded as
Rising Star in Gastroenterology at the European Congress of Gastroenterology in
2014.
Marc Ferrante holds a
basic-clinical research position at the Flemish Foundation for Scientific
Research (FWO Vlaanderen). He is board member and treasurer of the Belgian IBD
Research and Development (BIRD) group, chair of the Clinical Committee of the
European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization (ECCO), and previous chair of Young
ECCO. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis,
reviewer for many gastroenterology journals, and central reader for several
multi-centre clinical trials.
Krisztina Gecse, MD, PhD (Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands)
Amsterdam University Medical Center
Amsterdam University Medical Center
Krisztina B. Gecse is a consultant gastroenterologist in the Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Dr. Gecse completed a research fellowship at INRA-EI Purpan in Toulouse, France in 2007 and 2008, and she obtained her PhD at the University of Szeged, Hungary in 2012. She completed her medical training in internal medicine and subsequently in gastroenterology at the University of Szeged in Hungary and at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. Dr Gecse has been a consultant first at the Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary and since 2017 in the Amsterdam UMC, where she is primarily engaged in clinical work in inflammatory bowel diseases, which is also the key focus of her research.
In 2008, Dr Gecse was awarded the Ray Clouse Prize by the Rome Foundation (USA) for “best research article in functional and GI motility disorders”. In 2014, she received the Merit Prize from Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary for “exceptional research and educational activity” and in 2015 Imre Magyar Prize by the Hungarian Society of Gastroenterology. In recent years, Dr Gecse has participated in several initiatives of the European Crohn’s Colitis Organization (ECCO) and is currently chairing the ECCO Clinical Research Committee. Dr Gecse has written articles in prominent scientific journals such as Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Gut and Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis.
Evelien Humblet, MD (ZOL, Belgium)
Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg
Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg
Dr. Evelien Humblet graduated as MD at
the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. She specialised in internal medicine
and gastro-enterology in UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven, ZOL, Genk and St Joseph
hospital, Turnhout. Since 2008 she has been a full staff member at the
Gastroenterology Department of Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg.
During her formation, she developed a
special interest in the treatment of patients with IBD.
Since 2008 until today, she’s working as
a weekly consultant at the specific IBD-consultation of the University Hospital
of Leuven.
She is a member of BIRD.
Inge Huys (AZ Maria Middelares, Gent, Belgium)
AZ Maria Middelares, Gent
AZ Maria Middelares, Gent
1989-2012: I worked at AZ Maria Middelares Ghent on the
department of orthopedic surgery and gynaecology, short stay, Dayclinic and at
the poli Rheumatology as a specialiced Rheumatology nurse
2012-2017: Specialiced home nurse & dermatology nurse
2017 till now: IMID nurse è
IMID= Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases.
I work at the departments of Gastroenterology, Dermatology
and Rheumatology. My tasks are individual support, education, coaching,
teaching,personalized advice for IMID
patiënts.
I’m passionate about Non Violent Communication. I follow(ed)
a lot of (international) educations and courses on this item. This way of
connecting communication helps me professional and privately.
Triana Lobaton, MD, PhD (UZ Gent, Belgium)
UZ Gent
UZ Gent
Triana Lobatón finished
her training as gastroenterologist at Bellvitge University Hospital (Barcelona,
Spain) in 2010. During her training, she spent 2 moths at Mount Sinai
University Hospital in NY (US). She obtained her PhD on "fecal calprotectin as a surrogate marker of disease
activity in IBD patients" at the University of Barcelona in
2015.
As part of her PhD program, she spent 18 months (2013-2014) at
Leuven University Hospital (Belgium)under the supervision of Prof. Séverine
Vermeire.
Her clinical activity and research is
focused on IBD, in particular clinical projects.
She has been
coordinator of the young GETECCU (Spanish group of Crohn and Colitis),
and is also involved in several ECCO activities such as
the e-courses or editor for the ECCO 2019 Medicom Conference Report.
Since December 2017 Dr.Lobaton is working as a full time
staff member at the IBD Unit of the Department of
Gastroenterology at Ghent University Hospital (UZ Gent). The IBD unit
at UZ Gent is a tertiary referral center involved in many RCTs, being
Dr. Lobaton PI of many of them.
Edouard Louis, MD, PhD (CHU Liège, Belgium)
CHU Liège
Edouard LOUIS has been Professor of
Gastroenterology and Head of the Gastroenterology department at Liège University
hospital since October 2010. His Scientific work contributed to more than 280
papers in international journals (H-Index 2018=63). He has been General
Secretary of the Belgian Society of Gastroenterology 2005-2009, President of
the Belgian IBD Research group (2008-2011), member of the Scientific Committee
of the ECCO (European Crohn and Colitis Organisation) (2010-2013) and Chair of
this Scientific Committee (2013-2015). He has been member of the board of the
GETAID (groupe d’étude thérapeutique des affections inflammatoires digestives)
(2004-ongoing), president and vice-president of the GETAID (2012-2015 and
2015-2018). He is Associate Editor of Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis
(2018-ongoing).
CHU Liège
Lieven Pouillon, MD (AZ Imelda, Bonheiden, Belgium)
AZ Imelda, Bonheiden
Lieven Pouillon graduated as a Medical Doctor in 2011 at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), and finished his training as a Gastroenterologist in 2017, at the University Hospital Leuven (Belgium). His Master’s
thesis (promotor: Prof. Dr. S. Vermeire) investigated the long-term outcome of the Trough Concentration Adapted Infliximab Treatment (TAXIT) trial. After finishing his internship, he fullfilled a 1-year fellowship at
the IBD department of Prof. Dr. L. Peyrin-Biroulet in Nancy (France), where he participated both in clinical practice and in clinical research. Since August 2018, he started working as a full time staff member at the Department of Gastroenterology in Imeldaziekenhuis Bonheiden (Belgium), more specifically at the IBD Clinic and the GI Clinical Research Centre, one of the most dynamic and actively recruiting IBD research centres of Europe. So far, he has published > 25 peer-reviewed articles, of which > 15 as a first author.
AZ Imelda, Bonheiden
Jean-François Rahier, MD, PhD (CHU UCL Namur, Belgium)
CHU UCL Namur
CHU UCL Namur
Jean-François Rahier was born in Belgium
in 1975. He obtained his diploma of medical doctor with cum laude in 2000 from the University of Louvain (UCL) and
specialized in Gastroenterology in 2007. He was first trained by Pr O Dewit in
Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc in 2005 and then by Pr JF Colombel in Lille
in 2006-2007. Besides, he had a part-time research activity in 2008-2013 at the
INSERM U995 laboratory of Professor Desreumaux in Lille (France) where he
obtained his PhD on “lymphangiogenesis in IBD” in 2014.
He is working at the
University Hospital CHU UCL Namur in Belgium where his clinical activity is
focused on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and also acted between 2014 and
2018 as consultant for phase II-III clinical trials in CHU Liège (Pr E Louis).
In 2009 and 2014, he was the leading author for the European consensus on
management and prevention of opportunistic infection in IBD. He has authored or
co-authored around 50 peer-reviewed manuscript and is part of the scientific
and executive committee of I-CARE. He is an active member of the Belgian IBD
Group where he acts as President since 2017, of the European Crohn's and
Colitis Organisation and of the GETAID (France).
Tim Raine, MB, BChir, PhD (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK)
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge
Tim Raine is a consultant
gastroenterologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK, where he leads the
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) service.
Tim has an active interest in human
clinical trials in IBD and has worked as a chief investigator/principal
investigator on a number of preclinical and clinical trials in IBD
therapeutics, including first-in-human studies. He is the lead investigator for
the major UK IASO trial in acute severe colitis. He is a member of the European
Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) and sits on the ECCO guidelines
committee; he is an author of several current ECCO guidelines and a project
leader for the both Crohn’s and UC guidelines currently in development. He
serves on the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) IBD Clinical Research
Group, was awarded the BSG Young Gastroenterologist of the Year Award 2016, and
is a group leader for the BSG IBD guidelines group.
He is an honorary faculty member of
the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK. His research, funded by the
Wellcome Trust, CCFA and the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR),
focuses on understanding the regulation of the gastrointestinal immune system,
in particular the immunological basis for genetic risk in IBD.
Frank Robben (Administrateur-generaal van het E-Health platform)
E-Health platform
E-Health platform
Since 1991 Frank Robben is the general manager of the Crossroads Bank for Social Security, a public institution he conceived and founded, which ensures secure electronic data exchange between all actors in the social sector.
Since 2008, he is also the
general manager of the eHealth platform, a public institution responsible for
organising and supporting secure electronic data exchange between all actors in
the health sector with a view to improving the quality of care and patient
safety, reducing the administrative burden on patients and health care
providers and supporting scientific research in the field of health. He also
conceived and founded this institution.
Moreover, Frank Robben is CEO of
Smals, the main ICT service provider in the Belgian social security sector, and
is a member of the Belgian Data Protection Authority.
Frank was awarded the title of
Flemish public manager of the year 2005.
Michaël Somers, MD (UZA, Antwerpen, Belgium)
UZA, Antwerpen
Michaël Somers, MD, studied medicine at the University of Antwerp. After finishing his studies in
2017, he started working as a gastroenterologist in the University Hospital of Antwerp. He has special
interest in the field of inflammatory bowel diseases and pelvic floor disorders. In 2018, he served as a
fellow at the gastroenterology department of the University Hospital of Leuven for six months,
extending his clinical and scientific experience in following and treating IBD patients. Michaël Somers
is member of BIRD (Belgian Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research and Development).
UZA, Antwerpen
Wouter Van Moerkercke, MD (AZ Groeninge, Kortrijk, Belgium)
AZ Groeninge, Kortrijk
AZ Groeninge, Kortrijk
Wouter Van
Moerkercke started his medicine studies in Kortrijk (KULAK) and Leuven and
graduated in 2005. Thereafter, he had his fellowship in internal medicine in
Oostende, Kortrijk and Leuven. Between 2008-2010 he completed the training Master of Science
in health care management. After starting his GI fellowship in
Aalst in 2010 and afterwards in Leuven, he graduated as a gastroenterologist in
2012 with special interest in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD). He worked as a
resident in Leuven in the department of IBD for one additional year and
followed training in echo-endoscopy and ERCP. He started working in AZ
Groeninge Kortrijk in 2013. His clinical activity is focused on inflammatory
bowel diseases, general gastroenterology and echo-endoscopy.
Dr. Van
Moerkercke leads the IBD clinic in AZ Groeninge Kortrijk in cooperation with
dr. Bart Van Geluwe (IBD surgeon AZ Groeninge Kortrijk and UZ Gasthuisberg
Leuven) and the IBD nurse Sofie Himpe. He cooperates in several clinical IBD
studies together with his team. He is a member of BIRD (Belgian Inflammatory
Bowel Disease Research and Development).
He works also
as a consulting staff member in the IBD department in UZ Gasthuisberg Leuven
and also performs (echo-)endoscopy in St.-Jozefskliniek Izegem since 2016.
Griet Verhenneman (UZ Leuven, Belgium)
UZ Leuven
UZ Leuven
Griet Verhenneman is a legal expert on eHealth. She has an academic background and has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research. Today Griet is Data Protection Officer at UZ Leuven (University hospital Catholic University Leuven) where she is responsible for advising care, research and HR departments on data protection. Before joining UZ Leuven as DPO, Griet was working as a researcher at the Centre for IT and IP Law at KU Leuven, where today she is an affiliated researcher. For 10 years she participated in numerous interdisciplinary research projects and several international conferences focussing on IT Law and Health. She covered a broad spectrum of topics such as EHRs, mHealth, telemedicine, clinical trials, genetics and genomics, but data protection and privacy have been the common thread in her research.
Séverine Vermeire, MD, PhD (UZ Leuven, Belgium)
UZ Leuven
Séverine Vermeire obtained her MD degree at the KU Leuven in 1995 and a PhD at the same University in 2001 on “Genetic Polymorphisms and Serologic Markers in Inflammatory Bowel Disease”. She further trained at the Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Paraguay (1993), at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics , University of Oxford (1997-1998) UK and at the Montreal General Hospital (McGill University) in Canada (2000–2001). Since 2003 she is staff member at the Gastroenterology Department of the University Hospitals Leuven and is appointed Professor of Medicine at the KU Leuven. Since 2016 she is Head of the Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism & Ageing (CHROMETA) at the KU Leuven.
Dr Vermeire is actively involved as principle investigator in RCTs with new therapeutic compounds and has been lead investigator on several of these programs. Her scientific work resulted in more than 400 peer-reviewed articles so far and focusses on the role of the microbiome and genetic susceptibility in IBD and on identifying predictive signatures of treatment response. She was awarded an Advanced ERC Grant from the EU in 2016.
She is Past-President of the Belgian IBD Research & Development (BIRD) Group and of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (ECCO).
UZ Leuven
Dr Vermeire is actively involved as principle investigator in RCTs with new therapeutic compounds and has been lead investigator on several of these programs. Her scientific work resulted in more than 400 peer-reviewed articles so far and focusses on the role of the microbiome and genetic susceptibility in IBD and on identifying predictive signatures of treatment response. She was awarded an Advanced ERC Grant from the EU in 2016.
She is Past-President of the Belgian IBD Research & Development (BIRD) Group and of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (ECCO).
