Medicine Matters oncology

University Hospital Leuven, Belgium

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Johan Vansteenkiste is Professor of Internal Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and Head of Clinic in the Respiratory Oncology Unit and its Clinical Trial Unit at the Leuven University Hospital. Professor Vansteenkiste studied Medicine at the University of Leuven before becoming a Board Certified Pulmonologist-Oncologist. He had additional training in Respiratory Oncology at the European School of Oncology in Milan, Italy, and in Respiratory Endoscopy at the Laser Centre in Marseille, France, before gaining his PhD at the University of Leuven in 1996.

Professor Vansteenkiste is an active member of different international societies such as ESMO, IASLC, ASCO, ERS and others. He was Secretary of the Thoracic Oncology Assembly of the ERS and member of the ERS School Board in 2009-2012. He was member of the Board of Directors of IASLC in 2009-2013. He is member of the ESMO Lung Educational Group and Guidelines Group, and chaired the European Lung Cancer Conference in April 2015. He is the principal investigator or co-investigator in several clinical trials in the area of lung cancer. He is Associate Editor of the Annals of Oncology, member of the editorial board of several other journals, and author or co-author of more than 250 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.