Ivo A. Brosens MD, PhD, FRCOG

Dr. Ivo Brosens, Emeritus Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven in Flanders, Belgium, is a pioneer in the fields of placental bed biology, gynecologic endoscopic surgery, endometriosis, and adenomyosis. He has made fundamental and lasting contributions to reproductive science and clinical obstetrics and gynecology. The understanding of preeclampsia and other obstetrical syndromes, such as fetal growth restriction, abruptio placentae, fetal death, and spontaneous preterm labor, has deepened after realizing that these conditions are associated with failure of physiological transformation of the spiral arteries. Dr. Brosens and his team elucidated the pathologic features that underpin disorders of deep placentation. For his vision, leadership, and original scientific and medical contributions, Dr. Brosens is herein recognized as a “Giant in Obstetrics and Gynecology.