Jan Lerut MD, PhD

Jan Lerut, MD, PhD trained in General Surgery at the Catholic University of Louvain (KUL) (B) under the lead of Prof. Jacques A.GRUWEZ and at the H.Heine University of Dusseldorf (G) under the lead of Prof.Karl KREMER and at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) (B) under the lead of Prof.Paul Jacques KESTENS. From the very start of his surgical career he was involved in organ transplantation. This interest resulted in a transplantation fellowship at the Universities Paris-Sud-Centre Hépatobiliaire Paul Brousse under the lead of Prof. Henri BISMUTH and at Pittsburgh Medical Centre under the lead of Prof. Thomas E.STARZL. He was director of the abdominal transplant program at the Inselspital University of Bern (CH) from 1987 to 1991 (Prof. Leslie H.BLUMGART).

Currently he is ordinary Professor of Surgery and Co-director of the Department of Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery as well as Director of the Starzl Abdominal Transplant Unit of the University Hospitals Saint Luc and of the UCL Transplant Centre in Brussels. He has served as president of the Belgian Society of Transplantation (BST), as chairman of the Eurotransplant (ET) Liver Allocation Committee (ELIAC) and as President of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT). He is member of different councils and learning societies related to surgery and transplantation as well of the Belgian Superior Health Council. He is active in the EUROLIVER Foundation awareness campaigns for adolescents in relation to organ donation.