Dimitri Beeckman BSc, MSc, PhD

Prof. dr. Dimitri Beeckman holds a BSc. in Nursing, an MSc. in Nursing and Midwifery, an MSc. in Education, and a PhD from Ghent University in Belgium. His doctoral thesis focused on pressure ulcer prevention and management of Incontinence- Associated Dermatitis (IAD).
In 2010, he became a lecturer at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery at King’s College London in the UK. Currently, he works as a Professor of Skin Integrity and Clinical Nursing at the University Centre of Nursing and Midwifery at Ghent University in Belgium. He is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey (Guilford, UK) and at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Dublin, Ireland).
Prof. Beeckman is Executive Board Member of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP) and serves as Chair of the Scientific Committee since 2013. He co- chairs the EPUAP Education Workstream. He is chair of the European Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management Masterclass Project (Ghent and Dublin). Since 2018, he is President Elect of the International Skin Tear Advisory Panel (ISTAP).
ISTAP was formed to raise international awareness of the prediction, assessment, prevention, and management of skin tears. The Panel includes a broad range of healthcare professionals representing: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia/New Zealand, and Africa. He specialized in skin integrity research, clinical trials, healthcare education, implementation science and instrument development and validation.