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Professor Obstetrics and Gynaecology
University Hospitals Leuven
Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
Jan Deprest MD PhD FRCOG is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the KU Leuven (Belgium) and UCL (United Kingdom). He has a research interest in fetal surgery, in particular to antenatal interventions that modulate fetal development in case of congenital birth defects. Most of his research is translational in nature, and focussed around fetal surgical conditions amenable for fetoscopic management. He founded the Eurofoetus consortium, that brought together fetal medicine specialists and manufacturers to design a series of fetoscopic instruments with support from the European Commission. These are now widely used all over the world. The consortium completed two randomized trials in fetal surgery, one on the treatment of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome and on diaphragmatic hernia. He published over 700 peer reviewed papers, directed over 35 PhD projects and was awarded the fellowship ad eundem at the RCOG (2012), the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology Ian Donald Award (2018), and international membership in the US National Academy of Medicine (2022).
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
2:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
2:40 PM – 3:00 PM