CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: VERDONK René

Board certification in orthopaedic surgery: 07.10.1976.
Viable meniscal allografts. PhD thesis, University of Ghent, 1992.

Since 1992 he was Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and head of the department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Gent (Belgium).
He is emeritus professor since 01 10 2011

He has published in a large number of review Journals.
He was Editor in Chief of the KSSTA journal ( knee surgery and sports trauma and arthroscopy ) and later became senior editor since 2013

He is a member of many scientific societies, such as the Belgian Society for Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, of which he was President in 1991 – 1992 .
He is Past President of ESSKA 1995 - 1996
He was nominated to the prestigious Hall of Fame of the AOSSM in 2011.
During the recent meeting in Lyon in June 2015 he was awarded the prestigious honorary ISAKOS membership.
During the ICRS international congress Berlin 2022 he was awarded the ICRS Honorary membership