Kashin-Beck Disease Fund : Board of Directors |
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Maurice HINSENKAMP, MD, PhD
Board President and Co-founder of the KBD Fund
Maurice Hinsenkamp is Professor and Chairman of the Faculty Board of Orthopedic Surgery at Brussels University (ULB). He is Head of Clinics of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, University Hospital « Erasmus », Brussels, Belgium. His clinical subspecialities : hip surgery, external fixation, bone reconstruction. He is also Director of the Orthopedic Research Laboratory and of the Bone and Tissue Bank, Erasmus Hospital, ULB.
His main research fields are related to bone biomechanics and physical factors interacting with bone growth and repair.
He is member of the Royal Academy of Belgium and of the French Academy of Surgery.
Secretary General of the International Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (SICOT) since 2002.
Involved in the multidisciplinary study on Kashin-Beck Disease since 1993, he participated to two missions with Doctors Without Borders in Tibet.
Guest Editor of an issue of International Orthopaedics (V. 25 (3), 2001) dedicated to the Kashin Beck Disease and author or co-author of 10 publications on KBD.
Email: mhinsenk@ulb.ac.be
Phone: + 32 2 555 36 40.
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Koen VANDEKERCKHOVE
Board Treasurer, co-founder
Koen Vandekerckhove was born in Zwevezele, Belgium, 1967. He studied business administration (applied economics) at the University of Antwerp (UFSIA), where he obtained his master’s degree in 1989. He got a postgraduate degree in development co-operation at the University of Ghent in 1991. He was a lecturer in accounting at the university of Dalat, Vietnam and Finance Director of two foreign-owned companies in the same city.
After his return to Belgium in 1999, he initially worked as a consultant for Andersen after which he took various positions in finance and management for social-profit organisations working on the integration of ethnic-cultural minorities.
As a co-founder of the KBD Fund in 2002 he volunteered to become the treasurer, a position which he is still taking up today.
Email: koenvandekerckhove@belgacom.net
Phone: +32 9 223 66 67
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François MALAISSE, PhD
Board Secretary
Dr. Malaisse, born in Antwerpen (Belgium) in 1934, is Ingenieur (Forestry & Water) of Gembloux Agricultural University (1956), has a B.Sc. (Botany) from Brussels Free University (U.L.B., 1960) and a Ph. D. in Sciences from Lubumbashi University (1968). He was Head of the Ecology Unit at this last University(1970-86) and at Gembloux University (1987-2000). He devoted much research on ethnobotany and ethno-ecology, starting from local peasant knowledge to management of their environment in order to increase their local welfare. Such approach has been developed in Tropical Africa (Bemba, Nalu, pygmee), South America and Tibet (Ü population, KBD). He has published some eleven books and more than 300 papers. Knowledge of wild edible plants, their nutritional aspect, their domestication are main items surveyed. He is past-Director of the Science and Medicine Class of the Royal Academy Over-Sea Sciences as well as the Botanical Section of the National Council for Science Research of Belgium (F.N.R.S.).
E-mail: malaisse.f@skynet.be
Phone: +32 81 601813
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Françoise MATHIEU, PhD
Co-founder of the KBD Fund
Françoise Mathieu, born in Belgium in 1960, is Batchelor in Physical Therapy (1982) and holds a PhD in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation (2001) from Brussels Free University (U.L.B.). The subject of her thesis was “Kashin-Beck Disease (KBD): Clinical Features, X-rays Aspects and Clinical Trial of a Physical Therapy Treatment in Central Tibet.”. She studied also Tropical Medicine (1986), Tropical Medicine Institute Prince Leopold, Antwerp, Belgium Methodology and Practice in Epidemiology (2003) and Medical Statistics (2005), University of Bordeaux - France.
She joined Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in 1986 and worked in several countries and contexts until 2002. The last 10 years (1992 – 2002), Dr. Mathieu managed the KBD projects for MSF.
In 2002, together with 3 colleagues, she created “Kashin-Beck Disease Foundation”.
At present, she is directing the different projects that KBDF is implementing in Tibet Autonomous Region (P.R. China)
Email: francoise.mathieu@kbdfund.org
Phone + fax: + 32 84 468347
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Camille CHASSEUR, PhD
Co-founder of the KBD Fund
Camille Chasseur obtained a degree in Biological Sciences, with a specialization in Botany and Ecology, from Brussels Free University (ULB). He also holds a PhD in Mycology from Mons University (Belgium).
Dr. Chasseur is presently the Head of the Microbiological Indoor Pollution Unit in the Section of Mycology at the Scientific Institute of Public Health (I.P.H.) in Brussels (Belgium).
In 1995, he has been contacted by MSF Belgium to take part in a study on Kashin Beck Disease in Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Several missions on site were carried out to verify the fungal hypothesis of the disease. In 1998, he contributed to the set up of a mycology laboratory in Lhasa. He is also involved in the different actions linked with the grains decontamination.
In 2002, he co-founded and became a member of KBD Fund.
E-mail: camillechasseur@yahoo.fr
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Viviane DE MAERTELAER, PhD
Viviane de Maertelaer born in Brussels (Belgium) in 1946, has a Master in Physical Sciences (1968), a Master in Radiobiology (1973), and a PhD in Physical Sciences (1978), at the Free University of Brussels (U.L.B.) Belgium. She is a full-time professor of Biostatistics at the Free University of Brussels (U.L.B.) since 1996 et is the Head of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the Faculty of Medicine at the Brussels University (ULB ) since 2006.
She is a consultant for the AFSCA (Federal Belgian Agency for the Foods Safety) since 2006, for the IRSIB (Institute for Scientific Research and Innovation in Brussels, Belgium) since 2005 et EMEA (European Medicines Evaluation Agency –London) since 2001.
Her main research fields are focused on the statistical analyses of Biomedical data.
From the earliest studies implemented by the Kashin-Beck Disease Fund, she has provided her statistical expertise and validated the research protocols.
Email: vdemaert@ulb.ac.be
Phone: + 32 476 420 556
Fax : + 32 2 555 46 55
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