Nationality: Belgian

City: Brussels/Liege

Formation

Studies of Medicine at the Catholic University of Louvain. Doctor of Medicine, Surgery and Childbirth in July 1983 with the Greatest Distinction.

Training of gynecologist-obstétrician carried out primarily at the Catholic University of Louvain.

A stay at the Necker Hospital of the “Enfants Malades” enabled her to acquire a formation in the field of the “gynecology of adolescence”.

Obtaining her Aggregation of Higher Teaching in 1996 on the topic of the endometriosis, entitled: “Recto-vaginal Peritoneal, ovarian and endometriosis are three distinct entities”.

Scientific societies and professional associations

Past-president of Belgian Society of Reproductive Medicine (BSRM)

Member of the Board of the European Society of Gynecological Endoscopy (ESGE).

Since 2002, she is named expert of the Commission of the Drugs.

Since 2006, she belongs to the Superior council of the General doctors and Specialists.

She is named at expert by the National French College of Gynecology-Obstetrics, in order to establish recommendations for the clinical practice in the field of endometriosis.

She is member of many international societies of endoscopy and endometriosis.

Scientific editions

She is author and joint author of 120 chapters of books, 176 publications in national and international reviews, and of two atlases of endoscopic surgery.

She is “Reviewer” of several international reviews (Human Reproduction, Lancet, Gynecological Surgery, International Newspaper off Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation).

Main research fields

Her research is focused primarily on the endometriosis and in particular on the physiopathogeny of the endometriosis.

The second topic of her research relates to the ovarian cryopreservation.