

Prof. Dr. Van Den Noortgate, is head of the geriatric department at the University Hospital Ghent and full professor in geriatric medicine at the University Ghent. She is also a trained physician in Palliative Care Medicine, secretary of the Palliative Care Interest Group of the EUGMS, member of the EAPC-EUGMS-Maruzza foundation task force concerning palliative care for the older people and president of the working group ‘palliative care in geriatric medicine’ of the Flanders Federation for Palliative Care.
Haar doctoraat richtte zich op de uitkomst van oudere patiënten met acuut nierfalen en de rol van prognostische indices. Ze bouwt een multidisciplinair geriatrisch team op dat zich richt op sarcopenie, kwetsbaarheid en zorg aan het levenseinde bij de oudere gehospitaliseerde populatie. Als lid van de raad van bestuur van de European Academy for Medicine of Ageing geeft ze innovatieve geriatrische zorg aan veel Europese geriaters.
Prof. Van Den Noortgate is author and co-author of numerous publications and meeting-abstracts in journals such as Age and Ageing, the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), Palliative Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. She is actively involved in the supervision of master’s theses and some research projects.