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Pascal Verdonck

Pascal Verdonck

Member Board of Directors - MEDVIA

Prof Pascal Verdonck was born in 1963 in Ghent, Belgium. He graduated in 1986 as Master of Science Civil Engineering @ Ghent University. He obtained his Masters of Business Administration (1989), Master of Science Biomedical Engineering (1993) and PhD (1993) @ Ghent University. For twenty years he was at Ghent University with visiting professorships at Imperial College London and the Universities of Paris XII, Groningen and Bologna. He took an eight-year sabbatical as CEO of the private hospital Maria Middelares.

He is now full professor of medical technology at Ghent University and visiting professor at the KULeuven & Vlerick Business School. He is chairman of the board of directors of Artevelde University College & AZ Maria Middelares Hospital and the vice president of the Belgian Association of Hospital Directors and the European Association of Hospital Managers. He is member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts, & board member of Medvia, the innovation cluster for health in Flanders.