Annual Meeting Faculty Details

Rene Verdonk, MD . PhD

erasmus ULB Brussels
Gent, België BELGIUM

Rene Verdonk obtained his medical degree in July 1971 at Gent State University in Belgium. He was Board certified in orthopaedic surgery in 1976 and presented his PhD thesis on Viable meniscal allografts in 1992. Since 1992 he was Full time Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and head of the department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Gent (Belgium). He is emeritus professor since 01 10 2011 He has published in many review Journals. He was Editor in Chief of the KSSTA journal (knee surgery and sports trauma and arthroscopy) and later became senior editor since 2013 He is a member of many scientific societies, such as the Belgian Society for Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, of which he was President in 1991 – 1992. He is Past President of ESSKA (president 1995-1996) and past chairman of the basic science committee, He was nominated to the prestigious Hall of Fame of the AOSSM in 2011. During the recent meeting in Lyon in June 2015 he was awarded the prestigious honorary ISAKOS membership. In the 2022 Berlin meeting the ICRS nominated him as a honorary ICRS member He is now an active consultant in the ULB Erasmus univ Hospital dept of orthopaedics and trauma (dir. Prof Dr M Jayankura ) involved in all aspect of knee pathology and treatment.

6/6/2025 07:56 - 08:02	Pitter 1-2	Session 1: Knee - Meniscus Lecture meniscal scaffolds : where are we know. Faculty
6/6/2025 09:51 - 09:57	Pitter 1-2	Session 3: Post-op & Outcomes Lecture knee flexion contracture after TKA Faculty