Attending anesthesiologist and intensive care specialist at AZ St Lucas Hospital in Gent (Belgium).

Graduated from med school at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1998.

Was a resident in surgery and obtained degrees in family medicine, emergency medicine and mountain medicine before specializing in anesthesiology.

Completed training as an anesthesiologist at the Antwerp University Hospital, the OLV Hospital in Aalst and at St Luke's-Roosevelt in New York.

Interests have focused on US guided regional anesthesia, neurosurgical sleep-awake-sleep procedures, the acute management of the multiple injured patient (transfusion policy...), surgical intensive care, the clinical teaching of (regional) anesthesia and anesthesia in austere environment (Haïti quake,...).