| Greet Van den Berghe M.D.,
Ph.D.
Head
Department of Intensive Care Medicine
University Hospital Gasthuisberg
University of Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Dr. Van den Berghe received her M.D. from the University of Leuven.
From 1985-1989, she completed Training in Anaesthesiology at the
University of Leuven and then completed a postgraduate course in
Biostatistics from 1988-1989. From 1989-1991, she completed training
in Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Leuven and in 1994
completed her Ph.D. there; Dr. Van den Berghe’s Ph.D. thesis
was “Dopamine and Pituitary Hormones in Critical Illness.”
Currently, Dr. Van den Berghe is Chair of the Department of Intensive
Care Medicine of the University Hospital Gasthuisberg, University
of Leuven, Belgium. Her current academic position is Professor Intensive
Care Medicine, University of Leuven (1995, 1998, 2001). Dr. Van
den Berghe is also Clinical Research Investigator for the Belgian
Fund for Scientific Research and a Member of the Belgian Royal Academy
of Medicine and the Ethical Committee of the Belgian Ministry of
Agriculture. Since February, 2002, Dr. Van den Berghe has been the
K.U. Leuven-Novo Nordisk Chair of Research on Insulin in Critical
Illness.
Author of numerous abstracts, book chapters, articles in scientific
publications, and University Press’ Dopamine and Pituitary
Hormones in Critical Illness, Dr. Van den Berghe has reviewed more
than 30 manuscripts per year for International Journals and presented
at more than 100 International Meetings. Dr. Van den Berghe has
received 18 Research grants and is the recipient of 19 scientific
awards including, most recently, The Menarini Award for Diabetology
2003. She has supervised two Ph.D. Theses and been on the Jury membership
of three other Ph.D. theses.
Dr. Van den Berghe organized the following two scientific meetings:
International Symposium on Intensive Care Medicine, Leuven (November
20, 1998) and the Symposium at the occasion of the retirement of
Prof. Dr. Peter Lauwers, Leuven (September 7, 2002).
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