Yves Van Laethem

Yves Van Laethem
Senior Consultant physician at the Infectious Diseases Department, Saint-Pierre University Hospital
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Education
  • Doctor of Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics (1978) – Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • Specialist in Internal Medicine (1983) – Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • Tropical Medicine Expertise (February 1986) – Institut de Médecine Tropicale – Antwerp
  • Hygiene in Hospitals Certification (1990) – Faculty of Public Health, ULB – Erasme
Present Functions
  1. Senior Consultant physician at the Infectious Diseases Department, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels since 2017.
  2. Senior Consultant physician at the Travel and Vaccine Clinic, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels since 2017
  3. Member of the Supreme Council of Health (CSS) since 2009.
  4. Member of the Board of the CSS College since 2019
  5. President of the subgroup “Vaccination” of the CSS since 2014.
  6. Spokesman for the Belgian Federal Government for the Covid-19 crisis (2020)
  7. Member of the CELEVAL (scientific evaluation group) for the Covid-19 crisis (2020)
  8. Member of several international scientific societies
  9. Author of more than sixty communications and sixty publications.
Past Functions
  1. “Chef de Clinique” at the Infectious Diseases Department, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels until May 2017.
  2. Head of Travel Clinic, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Cesar De Paepe site, Brussels from 1992 until 2017
  3. Chairman of the Belgian Society of Internal Medicine (2011-2013).
  4. Vice President of the Belgian Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (1997-1999 and 2005-2011)
  5. Member of the drafting group “SANFORD Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy” -. Belgian Edition from 1991 until 2011
  6. Chairman of the Drafting Group “SANFORD Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy” -. Belgian Edition (2010-2011)
  7. Chairman of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Committee (2009-2010)
  8. Member of the “Commission de Remboursement des Médicaments” (Commission for Refund of Medicinal Drugs) at the Belgian Social Security – INAMI until January 2015
  9. Member of the Ethical Committee of the Saint-Pierre University Hospital until 2002.
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