Prof. Pascal Verdonck was born in 1963 in Ghent, Belgium. He graduated in 1986 as
Master of Science in Civil Engineering at Ghent University. He obtained his Master of
Business Administration (1989), Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering (1993)
and PhD (1993) at Ghent University.
For twenty years he was at Ghent University with visiting professorships at Imperial
College London, University of Paris XII and the University of Groningen. He took an
eightyear sabbatical as CEO of the Maria Middelares Hospital in Ghent.
He is now full professor of medical technology at Ghent University and a member of
the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts. He is chairman of the
board of directors of the University College of Applied Sciences Artevelde, chairman
of the board of Maria Middelares Hospital, and vicepresident of the Belgian
Association of Hospital Managers. He is an advisor to several MedTech companies.


