Dr Luc Mertens
Luc Mertens graduated from Medical School the University of Leuven, Belgium in 1992. He was a research fellow for the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research at the Laboratory of Physiology at the University of Leuven from 1992 until 1995 and obtained a PhD in Medical Sciences and Molecular Biology in 1995. He was trained as a Pediatrician and Pediatric Cardiologists at Leuven University Hospitals.
During his training he did a research fellowship from 1997-1998 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, USA. From 1999-2007 he worked as a staff Pediatric Cardiologist at the University Hospitals Leuven and was appointed as Associate Professor at the University of Leuven. His professional interest focused on echocardiography, interventional cardiology, heart failure and pediatric heart transplantation. He was also appointed as Clinical Researcher for the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research and directed the pediatric cardiac imaging research laboratory in Leuven.
His research interest was on developing and validating new echocardiographic techniques for assessing cardiac function in children. Luc Mertens has contributed to more than 80 peer reviewed papers. He is a member of the editorial board of different journals.
He has taken a leading role in organizing education and accreditation in pediatric and congenital echocardiography in Europe both within the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology as well as within the European Association of Echocardiography. Since February 2008 he became Section Head of Echocardiography at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. There he is leading the clinical and research echocardiography unit.
2010 Courses
5th European Echocardiography Course on Congenital Heart Disease
- 6th – 9th October 2010
- UCL Institute of Child Health in London
Hands-on sessions
- 9th October 2010 after lunch
- Limited places so books soon