Memberships
Member of the steering Committee of the Société Scientifique de Médecine Générale between about 2005 and 2020 (the SSMG represents 70 % of the Belgian French speaking GP)
Member of the Société Francophone de Médecine et des Sciences du Sport between about 2015 and 2020
Teaching activities
Teaching (lecturer) of the clinical approach of musculoskeletal disorders at the Centre académique de médecine générale of the Université catholique de Louvain
Continuing medical education on the diagnosis and the management of muskuloskeletal disorders at the SSMG
Expertise activities
External expertise at the Belgian Healthcare Knowledge Centrum (KCE, as from 2009) for the redaction of KCE recommendations related to muskuloskeletal disorders (Neck pain 2009, Ankle sprain 2013, Low back pain 2017) and/or sport medicine (2016)
Responsible for the French speaking GPs for the SPF project of implementation of the 2017 KCE guidelines on low back pain (2019-2021)
Publications
Articles on sport medicine in the Revue de la Médecine Générale (see the index of the Journal), including reviews on altitude sickness (2011), on cardiac screening (2014) and on low back pain diagnosis (2020)
As scientific collaborator at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, articles published with Prof. Jacques R Poortmans in Peer-reviewed journals about kidney function and sport (Sport Med 1994, J Sport Med Phys Fitness 2001)
This may appear rather inconsistent with my professional activities. And it is, indeed ! While this is "only" a hobby, I sincerely believe it has enriched my professional practice by making me more rigorous (I got a PhD in 2013 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles), yet with keeping my mind open.
Research
Impact of weak magnetic fields on circadian biorhythms and its possible extrapolation to mammals. My interest for that matter arose while I was preparing a course (as a sport practitioner) on medical imaging and tried to understand how MRI works. I was notably involved in the research on effects of weak magnetic fields (MF) that would be mediated by the MF impact on particle spin, not the proton one as in MRI, but the electronic one (see my leading publication here, and a presentation of my research here). My leading collaborators were Prof Hynek Burda, of the university of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Dr EP Malkemper, of the Max Panck Institute, Germany, and Pr Ph Gailly of the Institut des Neurosciences, of the UCLouvain, belgium.
Biological effects of radiofrequency (RF) fields, including the RF of the 5G. My very first publication did address the question of the local absorption of the RF close to DNA . Since, I published additional arguments in support of the relevance of that question within a review on RF effects on genomics. And the use of high frequencies (3.5 GHz, 26 GHz) by the current 5G has relaunched the debate about the local absorption of the RF in biological tissues. As a recognised expert in that matter, I have been sollicitated about the 5G by the Belgian Federal Parliament (la Chambre) and by the Walloon Government, and about RF effects in general by the ANSES , France.
Memberships
Scientific collaborator at the Center for research on environmental and work health, School of Public Health, Université Libre de Bruxelles (between 2008 and 2022)
Member (permanent expert) of the Belgian Superior Health Council (between 2004 and 2022)
Publications
Several articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals, that can be found on my personal page in Researchgate or on Medline
Diverse recommendations of the Belgian Superior Health Council about non ionizing radiations, of which GSM use (2004), Noise from MP3 devices (2007), Magnetic fields from electricity (2009), Idiopathic environmental intolerance (2010), 4 G (2014), Light from LED (2016)
Reports on health effect of electromagnetic fields and on electrosensivitity published by Bruxelles Environnement