Christophe Dubois MD, PhD

Christophe Dubois received his MD from the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven in 1995 with magna cum laude. From 1995 to 1998, Prof. Dubois was a fellow in internal medicine at the Imelda Hospital of Bonheiden and at the Gasthuisberg University Hospital of Leuven. From 1998 to 2001, he completed a fellowship in cardiology at the Sint Jan Hospital of Genk and at the Gasthuisberg University Hospital of Leuven, where he graduated as a cardiologist in 2001.

In 2001 Prof. Dubois joined the staff of the department of cardiovascular diseases of the Gasthuisberg University Hospital. During his first years of practice, he gained large experience in acute and interventional cardiology. In 2003 he started fundamental research on the potential role of stem cells in the regeneration of cardiac tissue following myocardial infarction and received his Ph.D. on this topic in 2010. Simultaneously, he focussed on complex coronary interventions in bifurcation lesions and the left main coronary artery and was the site principal investigator of numerous clinical trials. In 2008 he set up a percutaneous heart valve program together with his surgical colleagues. To date, he is serving as vice clinical head of the department of cardiovascular diseases at the University Hospital of Leuven and docent at the faculty of medicine and biomedical sciences of the University of Leuven.

Prof. Dubois has published multiple papers and abstracts in influential peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Lancet, European Heart Journal, American Journal of Cardiology, Catheterization, and Cardiovascular Interventions, and Heart. Prof. Dubois is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and a Board Member of the Belgian Working Group on Interventional Cardiology. He is dedicated to multiple education and training programs in interventional cardiology on a national and international level.