Peter Bossuyt

Dr. Peter Bossuyt is a gastroenterologist at the IBD clinic in the Imelda General Hospital in Bonheiden, Belgium. He is also co-director of the Imelda GI Clinical Research Centre in Bonheiden.

Dr. Bossuyt studied medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and graduated in 2004 with magna cum laude. He pursued his GI fellowship in Kortrijk, Roeselare, Bonheiden and Leuven. After completing his GI fellowship, he took up a fellowship in advanced endoscopy at the Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam.

Between 2010 and 2015 he was a consulting staff member for endoscopic ultrasound at the University Hospital of Leuven. In 2021 he obtained his PhD degree entitled, Value of endoscopic scoring and imaging for the prognosis and follow up of IBD, at the Catholic University of Leuven.

His research focuses on clinical trials in IBD and the definitions of endoscopic and imaging targets in IBD. He is a pioneer in working with e-health tools and AI in IBD.

He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis, past-chair of the Scientific Committee and past-secretary and current president of the Belgian IBD Research and Development Group (BIRD), and past board member of ECCO’s Clinical Research Committee, ClinCom.

He has (co-)authored >135 papers in international peer-reviewed journals (NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, Gut, Gastroenterology, Lancet Gastro & Hep, JCC, Clinical Gastro & Hep among others; h-index 40) and was invited speaker at multiple international congresses.