Professor of Neurology at the Université Catholique de Louvain and
Director of the Neuromuscular Centre of Reference of the Cliniques Universitaires
Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
ACADEMIC AND CLINICAL RESPONSABILITIES : Head of the neuromuscular diseases and
neuromuscular rehabilitation clinic, of the electromyography lab, and the neuromuscular pathology
lab ; Teaching of clinical neurophysiology and neuromuscular pathology.
In 1999, creation of the REFERENCE CENTRE FOR NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES
at the Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc, of which he is director and coordinator.
Current RESEARCH INTERESTS are
- pathogenesis and treatment of inflammatory neuropathies (founding member of the Inflammatory
Neuropathy Consortium, a standing committee of the Peripheral Nerve Society) - electrodiagnostic criteria of demyelinating neuropathies
- development of functional scales for neuromuscular disorders
- Organizer of an International Symposium on Neuromuscular Disorders – December
1999, Brussels, Belgium - Organizer of an International Symposium of Neuromuscular Diseases – October
2005, Brussels, Belgium - Organizer of WMS11 – October 2006, Bruges, Belgium
- Organizer of Progress in Neuromuscular Disorders, the 10th Anniversary Symposium of the
Neuromuscular Centre UCL St-Luc – November 2010, Brussels, Belgium - Member of the Treat-NMD Alliance (coordinator for the 6 Belgian Neuromuscular
Centres) (since 2008) - Chairman of the EFNS and since 2016 the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Scientific
Neuropathy panel (since 2009) - Member of the European Affairs Subcommittee of the EAN (2016), delegate to the
BioMedAlliance Europe (2017) - Member of the AFM Pathophysiological Basis of the Muscular Dystrophies commission
(2012-2017) - President of the Belgian-Dutch Neuromuscular Study Group (since 1998)
- Member of WMS since 1997, participated at all WMS congresses except two
- Editorial Board member of Neuromuscular Disorders since 2001
- Executive Associate Editor of Neuromuscular Disorders since 2016
- Member of the WMS Executive Board since 2007
- Member of the WMS Program Committee since 2007
- President-elect of the Inflammatory Neuropathy Consortium (INC) of the Peripheral
Nerve Society - Executive Board member of Euro-NMD and leader of the Neurophysiology Group
(2017)