Katrien Francois

Ghent University Hospital, Belgium



Biography

Katrien Francois is a Congenital Cardiac Surgeon at the University Hospital Ghent, Belgium, and currently the Head of the Cardiac Surgery Department at the same hospital. She received her surgical training at the University Hospital Ghent, and congenital cardiac surgery training at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London. She obtained her PhD with a thesis on “Surgical palliation of the functionally univentricular heart”. She has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals. 

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