Christophe L. Dubois, MD, PhD.

Christophe Dubois was born on October 12, 1970, in Rocourt, Belgium. He is married with three

children. He received his MD from the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven in 1995 with magna cum laude.

From 1995 to 1998, Prof. Dubois was a fellow in internal medicine at the Imelda Hospital of Bonheiden

and at the Gasthuisberg University Hospital of Leuven. From 1998 to 2001, he completed a fellowship

in cardiology at the Sint Jan Hospital of Genk and at the Gasthuisberg University Hospital of Leuven,

where he graduated as a cardiologist in 2001.

In 2001 Prof. Dubois joined the staff of the department of cardiovascular medicine of the Gasthuisberg

University Hospital. During his first years of practice he gained large experience in acute and

interventional cardiology. In 2003 he started fundamental research on the potential role of stem cells

in the regeneration of cardiac tissue following myocardial infarction, and received his PhD on this topic

in 2010. Simultaneously, he focused on complex coronary interventions in bifurcation lesions and the

left main coronary artery, and was site principal investigator of numerous clinical trials. In 2008 he set

up a percutaneous heart valve program together with his surgical colleagues. To date, he is serving as

clinical head of the department of cardiovascular medicine at the University Hospital of Leuven and

professor at the faculty of medicine and biomedical sciences of the University of Leuven.

Prof. Dubois has published multiple papers and abstracts in influent peer-reviewed journals as the New

England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Lancet, European Heart

Journal, International Journal of Cardiology, EuroIntervention, American Journal of Cardiology,

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions and Heart.

Prof. Dubois is Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and President of the Belgian Working

Group on Interventional Cardiology. He also serves as steering committee member of the European

Structural Heart Diseases Coalition.