Jérôme Cornette

Jérôme Cornette was trained in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Belgium, South Africa and the Netherlands. He works as a Maternal and Fetal Medicine Specialist at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam and University Hospital of Antwerp (UZA) and is a visiting professor at the University of Antwerp. He defended his PhD on hemodynamic profiling in complicated pregnancies. His areas of expertise are fetal and maternal echocardiography, Obstetric critical care, cardiac disease in pregnancy and obstetric surgery (PAS, laparoscopic cerclage). As a member of the International Working Group on Maternal Hemodynamics, he aims to promote Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) into maternal and fetal medicine. By his involvement in fetal and maternal heart disease, he forms a link between pediatric and adult cardiologist at the Erasmus MC congenital heart center. He supports a life-cycle approach to women’s cardiovascular health and promotes ultrasound as a non-invasive tool for this purpose.