Pieter De Visschere MD, PhD

Pieter De Visschere graduated in medicine at Ghent University in 2004 and became a radiologist at the same university in 2009. Dr. De Visschere has been a staff member at the department of Radiology at Ghent University Hospital since 2009, and has a special interest in genitourinary radiology and mammography. Since 2013, he has also been radiologist-second/third reader in the Flemish breast cancer screening program.

He is the author and co-author of about 30 publications in national and international journals, 16 of which as first author. He obtained his PhD in December 2016 with a thesis entitled ‘Improving the diagnosis of clinically significant prostate cancer with magnetic resonance imaging’ with promotor Prof. Dr. Geert Villeirs. Dr. De Visschere presented about 50 lectures on genitourinary and mammographic topics during national and international meetings. He is a member of the Belgian Society of Radiology (BSR), European Society of Radiology (ESR), European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR), European Association of Urology (EAU) and the Young Academic Urologists (YAU) Prostate Cancer Working Party. He is member of the genitourinary scientific subcommittee of the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2016, 2017 and 2019.