Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

The Ghent University Hospital is one of the largest and most specialized hospitals in Flanders with more than 3,000 patients a day and more than 6,000 employees. Patients are offered a wide range of top referent care. The hospital has extensive facilities and more than 1,000 beds for single-day and multi-day inpatient stays.

As a university medical center, Ghent University Hospital also invests in research, education and training and works closely together with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Ghent University. The latter offers a wide range of study programmes in medicine and health sciences, as well as the associated research activities. Research at the faculty is very diverse, ranging from fundamental (bio)medical research to translational and clinical academic research. Clinicians and healthcare professionals are continuously trained and researchers including clinician-scientists study many new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.

More information on www.uzgent.be and www.ugent.be/ge/en

ERN-EYE Involvement

• Bart Leroy, Chair of WG1 “Retinal Rare Eye Diseases”, member of WG3, WG5, TWG6, TWG8, TWG9

• Elfride De Baere, member of WG1, WG3, TWG5, TWG6, TWG8, TWG9

Ghent University Hospital, Belgium