Francis de Zegher

• MEDICAL SCHOOL  1974-81 University of Leuven, Belgium (Summa cum Laude)

• PEDIATRICS 1981-85 Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands (Professor HKA Visser)

• PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY 1985-88 University of California, San Francisco, USA (Professor MM Grumbach)

POSITION

• Staff Member, Neonatology, University Hospital Leuven (1988-1999)
• Head, Pediatric Endocrinology, University Hospital Leuven (1992-2021)
• Professor of Pediatrics, University of Leuven (1999-2021)
• Chair, Dept of Woman & Child, University of Leuven (2005-2010)
• President, Belgian Society for Pediatric Endocrinology (1995-2001)
• Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Belgium (2008-2023)
• Visiting Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain (since 2002)
• Senior Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK (since 2022)

SELECTED AWARDS

• Excellence in Clinical Research, JCEM (US Endocrine Society, 1998 & 1999)
• European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology (ESPE)
• Henning Andersen Award (1999)
• ESPE Research Award (2004)
• Andrea Prader Prize (2021)
• Visionary Award, Human Growth Foundation, USA (2024)