Laurent De Kerchove MD, PhD

Laurent De Kerchove started medical school in 1992 and graduated from the University of Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in 1999. After four years of training in general surgery, he specialized in cardiovascular surgery with Professor R Dion at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and with Professor G El Khoury at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc in Brussels. In 2008, he joined the surgeon’s staff at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc where he works. He did his Ph.D. in May 2014 on the role of annuloplasty in aortic valve repair. His particular areas of interest in cardiac surgery are aortic surgery, valve repair, and minimal access techniques.