UZ Leuven

Contact informatie

prof. dr. Jacques Pirenne
afdelingshoofd
transplant chirurg
hepatobiliaire chirurg

tel. 016 34 87 27 (via secretariaat)
fax 016 34 87 43

e-mail: jacques.pirenne@uzleuven.be

Curriculum vitae

• 1997 - now      
  Chief, Abdominal Transplant Surgery - Transplant Coordination
  Professor of Surgery
  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U. Leuven), University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
• 1995 - 1996
  Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Transplant Surgery
  University of Birmingham, UK
• 1993 - 1995
  Clinical Transplant Fellow
  Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
• 1994
  PhD Thesis "Small bowel and multivisceral transplantation", Liège, Belgium
• 1993
  General and Abdominal Surgery License, Liège, Belgium 
• 1992 - 1994
  Senior Research Assistant at the Belgian Foundation for Scientific Research
• 1991
  Master of Science in Experimental Surgery
  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
• 1988-1992
  Research Assistant at the Belgian Foundation for Scientific Research
• 1987
  MD, University of Liège, Belgium

• 32 Research Awards and Travel Grant
• 161 Pub med publications

Research Awards and Travel Grant: 32

Pub med publications: 184

Special interest

Abdominal organ transplantation, multivisceral transplantation, tolerance induction, organ preservation, donor awareness, sport and physical activity after transplantation.

Member of

• American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS)
• Belgian Society of Surgery (BSS)
• Belgian Society of Transplantation (BST)
• European Liver and Intestinal Transplant Association (ELTA)
• European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)
• International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association (IPITA)
• The International Transplantation Society (TTS)

Editorial board of Transplant Journals

Transplantation, Liver Transplantation, Clinical Transplantation Courrier de la Transplantation

Mountaineering

Climbing projects for donor awareness 

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