Surgical Oncologist
Ghent University Hospital
Gent, Belgium
Wim P Ceelen graduated as a medical doctor in 1992 at Ghent University (Belgium) and later obtained his PhD at the same university with a doctoral thesis entitled 'Neoadjuvant multimodal therapy in rectal cancer'. Currently, he is a staff surgeon in the department of Gastrointestinal Surgery at Ghent University Hospital and was appointed in 2010 as professor of Surgical Oncology at Ghent University. He is a Senior Clinical Investigator with the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) and is director of the Laboratory of Experimental Surgery at Ghent University. His clinical interests include surgical oncology of the digestive tract, peritoneal metastases, and retroperitoneal sarcoma. His experimental research focuses on tumor physiology and biophysics, functional imaging of cancer, and novel approaches to intraperitoneal drug delivery. His teaching assignments include courses on Evidence Based Medicine for the surgical disciplines. He is (co)author of over 200 PubMed cited publications, edited three books, and is promoter of 13 completed and 5 ongoing PhD theses. He has served as president of the Belgian Society of Surgical Oncology and as Secretary General of the European Society for Surgical Research. He is a member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine, the European Surgical Association, the EORTC GI group, the Cochrane collaboration GI group, the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO), the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO), and the American College of Surgeons. He currently serves as member of the Board of Directors of ESSO. Dr Ceelen is Editor-in -chief of Acta Chirurgica Belgica and associate editor of European Surgical Research, International Journal of Hyperthermia, Pleura and Peritoneum, and Frontiers in Surgical Oncology.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Friday, March 11, 2022
2:32 PM – 2:50 PM CST
Friday, March 11, 2022
2:50 PM – 3:00 PM CST