Stephan Gordts, Greece
Life Expert Centre
Stephan Gordts
Graduated at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1978. Performed two years of experimental work and training in microsurgery.
Since 1978 his main clinical interest and his full carrier is devoted to reproductive medicine. He is an expert in microsurgical interventions and operative laparoscopies.
In 1982 he followed a postgraduate training in ART at the Monash University, Melbourne, and as clinician in charge of the IVF program he was closely involved in the birth of the first IVF baby in Belgium, born in May 1983.
In 1984 he founded the “Leuven Institute for Fertility & Embryology (L.I.F.E.)”, institution of whom he is the head and the scientific director up till now.
From 1992 –1995 he was associate professor at the department of Gynaecology of the UCL (Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels) where he was director of the IVF unit.
He introduced in 1998 the new technique of the transvaginal laparoscopy and the concept of the one stop fertility clinic.
Member of different fertility societies; was the past-coordinator of the special interest group on reproductive surgery in ESHRE.
Within the ESGE and ESHRE he was the coordinator of the SIG for reproductive surgery and also for the task force on uterine congenital malformations (CONUTA) (collaboration ESHRE and ESGE).
Awards: 1998 the Basic science award ASRM/IFFS for his video on “Transvaginal hydrolaparoscopy: Visualisation of oocyte release and fimbrial pick-up”
He is associate editor of Gynaecological surgery and reviewer of several international journals; he published several papers in peer-reviewed journals.