Johan F. Vansteenkiste MD, PhD

Johan F. Vansteenkiste is a Professor of Internal Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and Head of Clinic in the Respiratory Oncology Unit and its Clinical Trial Unit at the Leuven University Hospital, Belgium. Professor Vansteenkiste studied Medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven before becoming a Board Certified Pulmonologist-Oncologist.

He had additional training in Respiratory Oncology at the European School of Oncology in Milan, Italy, and in Respiratory Endoscopy at the Laser entre in Marseille, France, before gaining his Ph.D. at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1996. Professor Vansteenkiste is an active member of different national and international societies such as IASLC, ASCO, ESMO, ERS, and others. He is a member of the Board of Directors of IASLC from 2009-to 2013 and a member of the ESMO Lung Educational Group and Guidelines Group.

He was Secretary of the Thoracic Oncology Assembly of the ERS and a member of the ERS School Board from 2009-to 2012. He is the principal investigator or co-investigator in several clinical trials in the area of lung cancer. He is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and several other journals, and author or co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on Respiratory Oncology.