Dirk Timmerman

Dirk Timmerman is full professor and chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology at KU Leuven, Belgium; Senior Clinical Investigator of the Scientific Research Fund (FWO) Flanders; Visiting Professor Imperial College London and visiting Professor Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Rome. He is co-ordinator of the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) collaborative group, founded by Dirk Timmerman, Tom Bourne and Lil Valentin in 1998 and aims to develop new algorithms and liquid biopsies to diagnose and detect ovarian cancer and for optimal care of adnexal tumors (included patients n>40,000). He is also co-founder of Gynaia, a KU Leuven spin-off company that offers prediction models as medical devices, and provides education, certification and QC in gynecological ultrasound. He served as ISUOG Board member and chair of the scientific committee and as Editor of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. He published more than 600 papers in international scientific journals. H-index 113