Yves Van Laethem
PARCOURS
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
- Senior Consultant physician at the Infectious Diseases Department, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels since 2017.
- Senior Consultant physician at the Travel and Vaccine Clinic, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels since 2017
- Member of the Supreme Council of Health (CSS) since 2009.
- Member of the Board of the CSS College since 2019
- President of the subgroup “Vaccination” of the CSS since 2014.
- Spokesman for the Belgian Federal Government for the Covid-19 crisis (2020)
- Member of the CELEVAL (scientific evaluation group) for the Covid-19 crisis (2020)
- Member of several international scientific societies
- Author of more than sixty communications and sixty publications.
- “Chef de Clinique” at the Infectious Diseases Department, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels until May 2017.
- Head of Travel Clinic, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Cesar De Paepe site, Brussels from 1992 until 2017
- Chairman of the Belgian Society of Internal Medicine (2011-2013).
- Vice President of the Belgian Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (1997-1999 and 2005-2011)
- Member of the drafting group “SANFORD Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy” -. Belgian Edition from 1991 until 2011
- Chairman of the Drafting Group “SANFORD Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy” -. Belgian Edition (2010-2011)
- Chairman of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Committee (2009-2010)
- Member of the “Commission de Remboursement des Médicaments” (Commission for Refund of Medicinal Drugs) at the Belgian Social Security – INAMI until January 2015
- Member of the Ethical Committee of the Saint-Pierre University Hospital until 2002.