Prof. Patrick Van De Voorde

<p><span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Associate Professor Pediatric & Emergency Medicine"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":14849,"3":{"1":0},"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":0},"15":"Calibri, sans-serif","16":12}">Associate Professor Pediatric & Emergency Medicine</span></p>

Prof dr Patrick Van de Voorde is clinical head emergency medicine at Ghent University Hospital. He is appointed associate professor in emergency medicine at Ghent University. Since 2013 he also functions as medical director of the Emergency Dispatch Centre 112 for Eastern- and Western-Flanders (Federal Department of Health).

He is vice-chair of the Belgian Society of Emergency Medicine and a board member of the paediatric section of the European Society of Emergency medicine, as well as the European representative to the general assembly of IFEM.

He chairs the international course committee for European Pediatric Life Support for the European Resuscitation Council [ERC] and is honoured as fellow of that ERC.

He has many publications in the field of emergency medicine and cardiac arrest and is first author of the 2021 ERC guidelines on paediatric resuscitation.

Patrick.vandevoorde@uzgent.be