Greet Van den Berghe is an intensive care specialist ( intensivist) and head of the Department of Intensive Care of the University Hospital of Leuven and head of the Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven. Biography Born in 1960, Van den Berghe studied medicine at KU Leuven in Belgium and the University of Bristol in the UK , graduating in 1985. She later completed a PhD in endocrinology . Her other research work has shown the beneficial impact of initially withholding nutritional supplements from ICU patients.
Greet Van den Berghe is an intensive care specialist ( ICU physician) and since 2002 head of the Department of Intensive Care of the University Hospital of Leuven and head of the Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven. Biography Born in 1960, Van den Berghe studied medicine at KU Leuven in Belgium and the University of Bristol in the UK and graduated in 1985. After 5 years of training, she received a board certification as Specialist in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation in 1989 and after an additional year of specialization she was board certified as "Intensive Care Specialist". In 1994, she completed a doctoral thesis on "Dopamine and Pituitary Hormones in Critical illness" and received the title of PhD . Her main research focus has been endocrinology, metabolism and nutritional management of ICU patients.
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