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Professor
Dr. Carlos Van Mieghem joined the European Lifestyle medicine Organization
(ELMO) in 2020. He is actively involved in the organization of the yearly
congress of ELMO, is a member of the ELMO Scientific Council and will be actively contributing to the
recently created Masters in Lifestyle Medicine course, organized by the
University of Thessaly and its departments of Medicine, Physical Education
& Sports Scince and Nutrition & Dietetics, under the auspices of the
European Lifestyle medicine Organization.
Biography
Professor Dr Carlos Van Mieghem,
MD, PhD, FESC is former staff member of the department
of Interventional Cardiology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the
Netherlands, former staff member and director of the Cardiac Intensive Care
Unit at the department of Cardiology OLV Hospital Aalst, Belgium and currently
staff member at the Cardiology department AZ Groeninge Kortrijk, Professor at
the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the Catholic University of
Leuven, Belgium, member of the European Lifestyle Medicine Organization (ELMO),
and consultant Lifestyle Medicine Specialist at Medisch Centrum Leie, Belgium.
He studied medicine magna cum laude at
the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and obtained board certification in
internal medicine, cardiology and intensive care medicine. He then trained in
cardiovascular research, interventional cardiology and cardiac CT imaging at
the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
His practice focusses on prevention, Lifestyle
Medicine, interventional cardiology and cardiac imaging (CT and MRI).
His academic career started in 2003 with the public
defence of his PhD thesis “CT coronary angiography: validation and clinical
implementation”.
Research interests
Professor Dr. Carlos Van Mieghem has
mentored numerous physicians and scientists from all over the world.
His research focuses on following topics:
Cardiac imaging
Hypertension
Atherosclerosis
Lifestyle Medicine
Publications
Professor Dr. Carlos Van Mieghem has published
extensively, authoring or co-authoring over 100 original research articles and
multiple reviews, book chapters and monographs.
He is a reviewer for many international cardiology
journals, including European Heart Journal and Journal of the American College
of Cardiology.