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Greet Van den Berghe is a physician and Chair of the Department of Acute Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven. She also holds the positions of Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine at the same institution.

Biography
Born in 1960, Van den Berghe studied medicine at KU Leuven in Belgium and the University of Bristol in the UK, graduating in 1985. She later completed a PhD in endocrinology.

Her paper Intensive Insulin Therapy in Critically Ill Patients, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2001, has been cited over 5,000 times. Her other research work has shown the beneficial impact of initially withholding nutritional supplements from ICU patients.

In 2011 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and in 2013 to be both a member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the German National Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina. She is also a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine.