Greet Van den Berghe

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Greet Van den Berghe is an intensive care specialist (ICU physician) and since 2002 head of the Department of Intensive Care of the University Hospital of Leuven and head of the Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven.[1]

Biography[edit]

Born in 1960,[2] Van den Berghe studied medicine at KU Leuven in Belgium and the University of Bristol in the UK and graduated in 1985.[3] After 5 years of training, she received a board certification as Specialist in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation in 1989 and after an additional year of specialization she was board certified as "Intensive Care Specialist". In 1994, she completed a doctoral thesis on "Dopamine and Pituitary Hormones in Critical illness" and received the title of PhD.[3]

Her main research focus has been endocrinology, metabolism and nutritional management of ICU patients.[4][5][6][7]

In 2011 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and in 2013 to be both a member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the German National Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina.[3] She is also a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hoffmann, Ilire Hasani, Robert. "Academy of Europe: Van Den Berghe Greet". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 24 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Prof. Dr. Greet Van den Berghe - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d Hoffmann, Ilire Hasani, Robert. "Academy of Europe: CV". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 24 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Van den Berghe, Greet; Wouters, Pieter; Weekers, Frank; Verwaest, Charles; Bruyninckx, Frans; Schetz, Miet; Vlasselaers, Dirk; Ferdinande, Patrick; Lauwers, Peter; Bouillon, Roger (8 November 2001). "Intensive Insulin Therapy in Critically Ill Patients". New England Journal of Medicine. 345 (19): 1359–1367. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa011300. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 11794168.
  5. ^ Van den Berghe, Greet; Wouters, Pieter; Weekers, Frank; Verwaest, Charles; Bruyninckx, Frans; Schetz, Miet; Vlasselaers, Dirk; Ferdinande, Patrick; Lauwers, Peter (8 November 2001). "Intensive Insulin Therapy in Critically Ill Patients". New England Journal of Medicine. 345 (19): 1359–1367. doi:10.1056/nejmoa011300. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 11794168.
  6. ^ "Study: Children in ICU recover faster without nutrition". UPI. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  7. ^ Téblick, Arno; Peeters, Bram; Langouche, Lies; Van den Berghe, Greet (July 2019). "Adrenal function and dysfunction in critically ill patients" (PDF). Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 15 (7): 417–427. doi:10.1038/s41574-019-0185-7. ISSN 1759-5037. PMID 30850749. S2CID 71714786.