Dr Kris Gommeren
Kris Gommeren graduated and
performed an internship and a residency in internal medicine at Ghent
University, where he helped in the development of the ECC-service and blood bank.
He worked briefly in a
referral practice in the Netherlands, before obtaining his diplomacy in internal medicine and moving to Liège University. Since 2008 he
is in charge of the ECC-service at Liège University, where he finished a PhD on systemic inflammation and the the cardiovascular system. He became a diplomate in emergency and
critical care, although he remains actively involved in the internship and resident training program in
internal medicine. Besides his work in a university setting, he is a consultant for an international
veterinary company for the development of emergency and critical care
facilities and the training of emergency and critical care personnel. Over the past years Kris has become involved
in the EVECCS society, of which he actually is past-president.