ENDO 2010 Annual Meeting - Includes 5 Complimentary Sessions
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CLINICAL - Thyroid Hormone Treatment of the Euthyroid Sick Patient
Program Code:
D02
Date:
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Time:
1:00 PM to 1:45 PM
EST
CHAIR
:
Bryan Haugen, MD, Univ of CO Denver, Schl of Medicine, Aurora, CO
Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose
SPEAKER
(S):
Elaine M. Kaptein, MD FACP, Univ of Southern California Med Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose
Greet Van den Berghe,
MD, PhD,
Catholic Univ of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
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Greet Van den Berghe graduated “summa cum laude” at the faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, in 1985 after which she specialized in Anesthesiology and later in Intensive Care Medicine. She studied biostatistics and in 1994 completed a Ph.D. thesis on Endocrinology of critical illness. From 1995 until 2004, she was a Clinical Research Investigator for the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders, Belgium.
She was appointed head of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital Gasthuisberg of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium in 2002. This intensive care unit is a large (56 beds) tertiary center treating around 2500 patients per year, adults as well as children. In 2005 she also became head of the “Division for Acute Medical Sciences” at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
Greet Van den Berghe is Professor of Medicine at the Leuven University, and has been running an active research program on the endocrinology of critical illness since 1995. She is also a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine.
Greet Van den Berghe published over 160 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and has authored several chapters in international textbooks on intensive care and endocrinology. She has been an invited speaker at many scientific meetings worldwide.
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