Bart Depreitere MD, PhD

Dr. Bart Depreitere graduated from the Medical School of KULeuven, Belgium in 1997. He completed his neurosurgical training in Leuven and was board-certified in 2004. Also in 2004, he obtained a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences at KULeuven by defending a doctoral thesis ‘A rational approach toward pedal cyclist head protection’. He did a fellowship in spine surgery and pediatric neurosurgery at the University of Toronto from 2005-2006. Since 2006, he works as a staff neurosurgeon at the University Hospitals Leuven and chairs the multidisciplinary spine program, which was JCI accredited under his leadership in 2019. He is appointed full professor at the KULeuven and teaches neurosurgery for medical students and spine pathology for physiotherapy students. His main research is in the pathophysiology and biomechanics of traumatic brain injury, and he authored several publications and supervised several Ph.D. students in this field. He is secretary of the Belgian Society of Neurosurgery and a board member of several societies in the field of neurosciences and spine.