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Kristel Van Calsteren

Kristel Van Calsteren

Associate Professor
Catholic University Leuven
Belgium

Biography

Kristel Van Calsteren received her medical degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 2004. In 2009 she successfully defended her PhD thesis which handled different aspects of cancer and cancer treatment during pregnancy. She completed her specialist training in obstetrics and gynaecology in 2011 and her maternal-fetal medicine training in 2012 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Currently she is a member of the staff of feto-maternal medicine at the university hospital Gasthuisberg in Leuven, Belgium. Together with Frédéric Amant, she initiated INCIP: international network on cancer, infertility and pregnancy. She is a member of the ESGO task force on ‘Cancer in pregnancy’.

Research Interest

She has a special interest in high risk maternal medicine and the use of medication in pregnancy (pharmacokinetics, transplacental transfer, toxicity) in pregnancy.