Greet Van den Berghe
Greet Van den Berghe | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1960 (age 65–66) |
| Alma mater | KU Leuven |
| Awards | FWO Excellence Prize (2015) International Excellence in Endocrinology Award (2020) European Medal (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Intensive care medicine Endocrinology |
| Workplaces | KU Leuven UZ Leuven |
Greet Van den Berghe (born 1960)[1] is a Dutch physician and intensive care researcher. Since 2002 she has been the 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.[2][3][4] Her research has focused on the endocrine and metabolic responses to critical illness, including blood-glucose control and nutritional support in intensive care.[5]
Biography
Born in 1960,[6] Van den Berghe studied medicine at KU Leuven in Belgium and the University of Bristol in the UK and graduated in 1985.[2] 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.[2]
Her main research focus has been endocrinology, metabolism and nutritional management of ICU patients.[7][8][9][10] In 2001, she led a randomised study of surgical intensive-care patients which reported that intensive insulin therapy reduced morbidity and mortality.[11] Her research group subsequently conducted studies on the timing of artificial nutrition in intensive care. She helped design the adult EPaNIC trial and was a co-author of its main report. The study found that delaying parenteral nutrition until the eighth day of intensive care was associated with faster recovery and fewer complications than beginning it earlier.[12] She was also the senior author of the international PEPaNIC trial, which examined the same question in critically ill children. The trial reported that withholding parenteral nutrition during the first week of intensive care resulted in fewer new infections and shorter intensive-care stays than providing it early.[13]
Honours and awards
- Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium (1999).[2]
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (2011).[2]
- Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2013).[2]
- Honorary member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (2013).[2]
- FWO Excellence Prize for Clinical Biomedical Sciences (2015).[14]
- Elected member of Academia Europaea (2015).[2]
- International Excellence in Endocrinology Award from the Endocrine Society (2020).[15]
- European Medal from the Society for Endocrinology (2021).[16]
References
- ↑ "Greet Van den Berghe - Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek". www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de (in German). Retrieved 24 July 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Academy of Europe: Van Den Berghe Greet". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ↑ "KU Leuven who's who - Greta Van den Berghe". www.kuleuven.be. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
- ↑ "Leopoldina: Detail". www.leopoldina.org. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
- ↑ "Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine". Groep Biomedische Wetenschappen KU Leuven. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
- ↑ "Prof. Dr. Greet Van den Berghe - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ↑ Van den Berghe, Greet; Wouters, Pieter; Weekers, Frank; Verwaest, Charles; Bruyninckx, Frans; Schetz, Miet; Vlasselaers, Dirk; Ferdinande, Patrick; Lauwers, Peter; Bouillon, Roger (8 November 2001). "Intensive Insulin Therapy in Critically Ill Patients". New England Journal of Medicine. 345 (19): 1359–1367. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa011300. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 11794168.
- ↑ Van den Berghe, Greet; Wouters, Pieter; Weekers, Frank; Verwaest, Charles; Bruyninckx, Frans; Schetz, Miet; Vlasselaers, Dirk; Ferdinande, Patrick; Lauwers, Peter (8 November 2001). "Intensive Insulin Therapy in Critically Ill Patients". New England Journal of Medicine. 345 (19): 1359–1367. doi:10.1056/nejmoa011300. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 11794168.
- ↑ "Study: Children in ICU recover faster without nutrition". UPI. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ↑ Téblick, Arno; Peeters, Bram; Langouche, Lies; Van den Berghe, Greet (July 2019). "Adrenal function and dysfunction in critically ill patients". Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 15 (7): 417–427. doi:10.1038/s41574-019-0185-7. ISSN 1759-5037.
- ↑ Berghe, Greet Van den; Wouters, Pieter; Weekers, Frank; Verwaest, Charles; Bruyninckx, Frans; Schetz, Miet; Vlasselaers, Dirk; Ferdinande, Patrick; Lauwers, Peter; Bouillon, Roger (8 November 2001). "Intensive Insulin Therapy in Critically Ill Patients". New England Journal of Medicine. 345 (19): 1359–1367. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa011300. ISSN 0028-4793.
- ↑ Casaer, Michael P.; Mesotten, Dieter; Hermans, Greet; Wouters, Pieter J.; Schetz, Miet; Meyfroidt, Geert; Van, Cromphaut Sophie; Ingels, Catherine; Meersseman, Philippe; Muller, Jan; Vlasselaers, Dirk; Debaveye, Yves; Desmet, Lars; Dubois, Jasperina; Van, Assche Aime (11 August 2011). "Early versus Late Parenteral Nutrition in Critically Ill Adults". New England Journal of Medicine. 365 (6): 506–517. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1102662.
- ↑ Fivez, Tom; Kerklaan, Dorian; Mesotten, Dieter; Verbruggen, Sascha C. A. T.; Wouters, Pieter J.; Vanhorebeek, Ilse; Debaveye, Yves; Vlasselaers, Dirk; Desmet, Liesbeth; Casaer, Michael P.; Guerra, Gonzalo G.; Hanot, Johan; Joffe, Ari; Tibboel, Dick; Joosten, Koen; Van den Berghe, Greet (24 March 2016). "Early versus Late Parenteral Nutrition in Critically Ill Children". The New England Journal of Medicine. 374 (12): 1111–1122. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1514762. PMID 26975590.
- ↑ "Greet Van den Berghe and Luc Van Gool receive FWO Excellence Prize". Nieuws. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
- ↑ Newman, Mr Mark (18 March 2020). "Meet the 2020 Laureates: Greet Van den Berghe, MD, PhD". Endocrine News. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
- ↑ "News Article Holder | Society for Endocrinology". www.endocrinology.org. Retrieved 24 July 2026.