Frederik Berrevoet MD, PhD, FACS

Prof. dr. F. Berrevoet obtained his medical degree at the Ghent University in 1997 after which he received his surgical training at the University Hospital in Ghent, University Hospital Saarland, Homburg, Germany and Albert Schweitzer Hospital in the Netherlands. He started as a fellow at the department of General & HPB and Transplantation Surgery at the University Hospital Ghent in 2004 after which he became a consultant at this department in 2006.

He received the degree of doctor in Medical Science with his public defense of the thesis ‘Progress in synthetic material in abdominal wall repair’ in September 2010 and he obtained the European board of surgery qualification in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic surgery in Zurich, Switzerland in December 2010.

During his training and during his surgical career he did experimental research in different areas of HPB and hernia related surgery. Evaluation of mesh shrinkage in memory ring containing abdominal wall prosthesis, laparoscopic mesh fixation and the use of intraperitoneal mesh devices in surgical management of small midline hernias, as well as management of the open abdomen are the main topics of interest.He has been promoter of several Ph-D thesis candidates within this domain.