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Chris Van Geet

Vicerector for the Biomedical Sciences Group and University Development Cooperation at KU Leuven

KU Leuven

About me

Vice Rector for the Biomedical Sciences Group, also responsible for University Development Cooperation Chris Van Geet, M.D., PhD, (born 1961) is vicerector for the Biomedical Sciences Group and University Development Cooperation.

She holds a candidate’s degree in psychology (1984) and a PhD in medicine, surgery, and obstetrics (1986). She became a paediatrician in 1993 and was certified as paediatric haematologist and oncologist in 2014. From 1999 to 2014 she was an FWO fellowship Clinical Investigator at the Centre for Molecular and Vascular Biology. Chris Van Geet has been a part-time full professor since 2005.

From 2005 until august 2017 she was head of Paediatrics at University Hospitals Leuven; and as a paediatric haematologist she still continues to treat children with blood diseases and do research in the field.

Development cooperation has been a constant factor in her life and work. Through her collaboration with partners in Congo and Benin, and in her role of Chair of the Interfaculty Council for Development Cooperation, she developed wide-ranging experience across different disciplines in the field.