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Ghent University Hospital (UZ Gent), Department of Paediatric Urology
Ghent, Belgium
Paediatric urology unit within the UZ Gent urology service treating congenital and acquired kidney, ureter, bladder, urethral and genital conditions in children, working closely with paediatric nephrology and endocrinology and taking referrals from across Belgium and abroad.
LengthAt least 2 years (ESPU training standard)
ESPU/EBPU certified paediatric urology training programme (since January 2011)
What stands out
- Robot-assisted pyeloplasty once a child is 1 year or 10 kg; laparoscopic heminephrectomy, pyelo-ureterostomy and orchidopexy
- Multidisciplinary voiding clinic (Plaspoli) with weekly group bladder classes, urotherapy, TENS and holiday continence camps
- Paediatric Urology Nephrology Centre plus DSD and gender teams (2011)
- Program lead
- Erik Van Laecke
- Apply through
- Direct application
- Focus
- Paediatric urology within the urology department and the Paediatric Urology Nephrology Centre: urogenital reconstruction, minimally invasive surgery, uro-oncology, neurogenic and non-neurogenic incontinence, DSD and gender team
Training
- Research
- Long-running clinical research on childhood incontinence; the Gianni Eggermont Fund (2019) backs clinic-to-lab work on hypospadias, epispadias and buried penis
- Hospital
- Ghent University Hospital (UZ Gent) and its children's hospital (Kinderziekenhuis)
- Faculty
- Piet Hoebeke, Anne-Francoise Spinoit, Ellen Vandamme, Mieke Waterschoot