Curriculum Vitae

Dirk J.M.K. De Ridder, M.D., Ph.D., FEBU

Personalia
Name Dirk, Jan, Maria, Karine De Ridder

Date of birth 30/7/1964

Place of birth St. Agatha Berchem

Home Address: Wijgmaalbroek 93

3018 Wijgmaal
Tel/fax: +32-16-447075
Cell: +32-479 980048

Married to Kitty Wymeersch

Father of Silke, Maaike, Kobe

Office: Dept. of Urology

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven
Herestraat 49
3000 Leuven
Belgium
Tel: +32-16-346930
Fax: +32-16-346931
Dirk.deridder@uzleuven.be

RIZIV number 1-07313-66-450

Training
Medical degree 1985-1989 K.U. Leuven, Magna cum laude

Surgical training 1989-1991 U.Z. Leuven

Urological training 1991-1995 U.Z. Leuven, Prof. Dr. L. Baert

Visiting Sholarships 1997 Neurourology, Michael Chancellor,MD,

W.C. de Groat, PhD, Lab. For neural
control of Genito-urinary organs,
University of Pittsburgh, USA

Neuro rology, Alan Wein, MD,

Univ. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
David Rivas, T.
Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA

Neuro urology, Clare Fowler, National

Institute for Neurology & eurosurgery,
Queen Square, London, UK

PhD. Medical Sciences 30-3-98 Advances in the urological care for

Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Promoters: H. Van Poppel , C. Fowler
(London, UK)
Training

Additional Studies 97-99 Hospital management, Centrum voor

ziekenhuiswetenschappen, KU Leuven
cum laude

2002 Information management for hospital

physicians. Vlerick Gent – Leuven
Management School

Appointments
Current

1/10/2015- ongoing Chairman and Professor of the dept. of Urology, KU Leuven

1/10/2005- 30/9/2015 Head of Clinic, Urology, UZ Leuven
1/3/2006 – ongoing Research director Experimental Urology, KU Leuven
1/10/2009 - ongoing Senior clinical researcher FWO Vlaanderen
1/10/2012- now Professor of urology KU Leuven
2001-ongoing Board member of the board of directors of the National MS
Center, Melsbroek
28/2/2013 - ongoing Chairman of the Flemish chamber of the accreditation
Commission for Urology
Appointments
Current

1/9/2013 – ongoing Strategic coordinator Vlaams Ziekenhuisnetwerk KU Leuven

1/9/2013 – ongoing Member or the hospital management committee UZ Leuven
1/10/2013- ongoing Director Leuven Institute for Health Care Policy
1/2/2015- ongoing President of the board of directors of the National MS Center,
Melsbroek
1/3/2017 – ongoing Co-director of the Health, Science and Business Institute KU
Leuven – Vlerick Business School
1/9/2017-ongoing Member of the board of directors of the St. Blasius General
Hospital Dendermonde
Past

1/8/95-31/7/97 Resident Urology, Universitaire Ziekenhuizen K.U. Leuven

1/8/95- now Staff member Fertility Center, KU Leuven
1/8/97- 31/7/98 Adjunct-Supervisor Urology, U.Z. Leuven
1/8/98-31/7/99 Supervisor Urology, U.Z. Leuven
1/8/99- 30/9/2005 Adjunct head of Clinic, UZ Leuven
1/8/95- now Chairman Urology, National MS Center, Melsbroek
1/10/98 – 30/9/2013 Assistant professor Urology KU Leuven
15/11/2011 Medical Coordinator National MS Center, Melsbroek
2003- 2010 General Coordinator National MS Center, Melsbroek
2005-2010 Board member of the board of directors of the Maria Ziekenhuis,
Overpelt
2010-2013 Medical director National MS Center, Melsbroek
Scientific memberships
Member Belgian Society for Urology
Founding member and treasurer European Board of Urologists in Training 1992-1994
Member European Association of Urology
Member International Continence Society
Member American Urological Association
Member of the SIU Societé Internationale d’ Urologie
Member Nederlands-Vlaams Dwarslesie genootschap
Member of the Belgian Society for Reproductive Medicine
Member of the Society for Female Urology and Urodynamics

Executive functions in scientific organisations

1997- 2010 Chairman Clinical Care Committee for Sexual, Urological and Bowel dysfunction in
MS, part of RIMS (rehabilitation in MS)(1997 - 2010)
2005-2010 Chairman European Society for Neurourology ( section of EAU)
2006- 2013 Chairman of the working group on Functional urology of the Belgian
Association of Urology
2007-2010 Chairman International Continence Society’s “ Standardisation
Committee”
Executive functions in scientific organisations
2007-2010 Executive director of the International Continence Society
2010-2012 Board member European Society for Functional and Female urology
( section of EAU)
2010- 2015 Member of the Panel for Incontinence Guidelines, European
Association of Urology
2008- 2014 Chairman Obstetric Fistula committee of the International
Consulation on Incontinence.
2012-2016 Member of the Scientific Board of the European Association of
Urology
2012- present Treasurer of the International Consultation on Urological Diseases
2013- present ISSECAM board member for Funtional Urology

Editorship
Associate Editor for Neurourology and Urodynamics till 2016
Associate Editor for The British Journal of Urology International till 2017

Reviewer for several international journals in the field of investigative and clinical urology,
neuro-urology and Urogynecology.