Francis de Zegher
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)