Jan Jeroen Vranckx MD, PhD, FCCP

Dr. Jan Jeroen Vranckx was born and raised in Turnhout. After his medical studies in Diepenbeek and Leuven, he started his specialization training at the KU Leuven in 1994. During that training, he worked in the European clinics in Brussels, the renowned Chang Gung Memorial University Hospital in Taipei, and the Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. in Boston. There the focus was mainly on reconstructive plastic surgery. He obtained his diploma at UZ Leuven in 2000. After his specialization, he returned to Boston in the United States for two years. There he turned his attention to aesthetic surgery, among other things, and he also became fascinated by the future possibilities of tissue engineering. At the end of 2002, he returned to UZ-Gasthuisberg in Leuven and founded the “Labo of Plastic Surgery & Tissue Engineering Research”.

In 2007 he started an aesthetic department at AZ Diest, an affiliated network hospital of KU Leuven. Since 2008 he has been a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgeon and head of the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery at the University Hospitals Leuven. dr. Vranckx has won multiple international awards with presentations about his clinical work: 'Outstanding Paper Awards at the American Society ASRM in 2011 and 2013, the 'Best Paper Awards at the World Society WSRM in 2011 and the European Association of Plastic Surgery EURAPS in 2011. and 2013. In 2014 he published a book with Lannoo Campus: “Plastic Surgery: beyond the clichés”, with the aim of explaining in fluent language to non-specialists what the very fascinating and versatile discipline of Plastic Surgery entails. In 2015, this led to interviews on Radio 1 with 'de Madammen' and 'Interne Keuken'. He was also a guest speaker at the theater performance 'How do I become Einstein or Da Vinci' in cooperation with Radio 1 with Lannoo Campus during Leuven's 'Week van de Nieuwcurheid'. In 2015, Dr. Vranckx 'Fellow of the American Association of Plastic Surgery' (FAAPS). In early 2016, he won the prestigious 'Marco Godina' award from the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, as the 4th European winner in its 25-year history.”