Dirk Van Gestel

Belgium, 29 years of experience

Oncology

Area of expertise

Specialty

Oncology

Subspecialty

Radiation Oncology

Diseases

Skin Cancers, Breast Cancer, Head and Neck Cancer, Sarcoma

Procedures Performed

Radiotherapy

Experience

Head, Radiotherapy Department, Jules Bordet Institute

Anderlecht, Belgium. From 2015

Professor in Radiotherapy, Jules Bordet Institute

Anderlecht, Belgium. From 2015

Radiotherapist, Radiotherapy Department, Middelheim Hospital

Antwerp, Belgium. From 1999

Internship Supervisor in Radiotherapy-Oncology, Jules Bordet Institute

Anderlecht, Belgium. From 2015

Founder and Organiser of the Multidisciplinary Radiotherapy Research Group, Antwerp University Hospital

Antwerp, Belgium. 2009 - 2014

Education

MD: Catholic University of Louvain

1993

Biography

Dr. Dirk Van Gestel is a medical doctor who graduated cum laude from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1993. He trained as a radiotherapist at the Catholic University of Louvain and at the AZ Middelheim from 1994 to 1999 and has been working as a radiotherapist at the Radiotherapy Department of the Middelheim Hospital, affiliated with the University of Antwerp, since 1999. Dr. Van Gestel has a special interest in head and neck cancer, soft tissue sarcomas, radiotherapy planning, quality contr

Affiliations

President, Belgian Society for Radiation Oncology

President, Belgian Association for Radiation Oncology

President of the Scientific Committee, Belgian Society for Radiation Oncology

Secretary, Belgian Association for Cancer Research

Treasurer, Belgian Hadron Therapy Centre

Publications

Dr. Dirk Van Gestel has more than 140 publications

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