Speakers
Diethard Monbaliu
Abdominal Transplant surgeon at University Hospitals Leuven
Founder Transplantoux
E. Porrini
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Ellen Foulon
Maatschappelijk assistente KU Leuven
prof. dr. Carine Poppe
Prof. Dr. Carine Poppe is a clinical psychologist, cognitive‑behavioural therapist, and university staff member at the Transplantation Centre of Ghent University Hospital. She works with individuals living with chronic illness who undergo liver, kidney, or heart transplantation, providing psychological assessment, diagnostics, individual psychotherapy, and counselling. She places great importance on integrating clinical expertise, teaching, and scientific engagement. With her PhD and ongoing research on psychological mechanisms and quality of life in chronically ill and transplanted patients, she aims to bridge scientific insights with clinical practice. At Ghent University, she teaches courses on multidisciplinary collaboration, psychological and cognitive‑behavioural assessment and treatment, and communication skills for medical specialists and other healthcare professionals (including physiotherapists, dentists, and dietitians) within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is also involved in advanced university training programs in psychotherapy (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) for psychologists and psychiatrists within the Faculty of Psychology, as well as in the Respiratory Health program in collaboration with KU Leuven.
Eva Segura Ortiz
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Fons and Lieselotte Schoemaker
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João Viana
Research & Innovation in Sport, Exercise, Health and Performance
UCSF Endowed Professor of Liver Health and Transplantation | Physician Nutrition Specialist
Marc De Reu
PhD Researcher Data Science / Faculty of Economics and Business Administration / Faculty of Sports and Movement Sciences
Naomi Clyne, MD, PhD is an associate professor and a senior consultant nephrologist at Clinical Sciences, Lund, Lund University and Dept of Nephrology in Lund, Skåne University Hospital. She was previously head of the Department of Nephrology in Lund. She authored the first paper on exercise training in patients with CKD 5 not on Kidney Replacement Therapy (KRT) in 1991, is a co-founder and former chair of EURORECKD, former president of the Swedish Society of Nephrology.
She has been instrumental in introducing exercise training as an important non-pharmacological treatment modality to patients with CKD. Her main research focus is on implementing exercise in everyday life and studying the effects of exercise in patients with CKD stages 3 to 5, not on KRT, and led the RENEXC trial.
Sabina De Geest
Professor Implementation Science - Medication Adherence - eHealth
Sharlene Greenwood
Prof. Sharlene Greenwood is a Consultant Physiotherapist at King’s College Hospital, a Professor in Exercise and Lifestyle Therapy at King’s College London, and the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer for Kidney Beam. Sharlene has worked with people living with kidney disease for over 20 years, mostly designing and evaluating different ways to motivate people to be more active. Most recently, Sharlene led on the development of Kidney Beam www.beamfeelgood.com, a novel digital platform that was rapidly developed to help people living with kidney disease manage their physical and emotional wellbeing during the COVID pandemic and beyond. Sharlene is an NHS Innovation Accelerator fellow currently working to scale the Kidney Beam digital health intervention across the UK. Sharlene leads one of the only commissioned renal exercise services in the UK.
Stefan De Smet
Asst. Prof. at KU Leuven
Exercise Physiology Research Group, Department of Movement Sciences
Tim Knobbe
Tim Knobbe is a medical doctor who recently completed his PhD on health-related quality of life among kidney transplant recipients. Currently, he combines his Internal Medicine residency with research.
