Peter van den Bergh

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Peter Van den Bergh is Full Professor (emeritus) at the University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. Fascinated by neuromuscular diseases, he obtained a grant from the ALS Foundation USA to do research on ALS and muscle pathology at USC in Los Angeles and at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston. He is certified by the Board of the AANEM. In 1999, he created the UCL Saint-Luc Neuromuscular Reference Center and received the Center of Excellence label from the GBS/CIDP Foundation International. He is a an executive board member of Euro-NMD and co-chairs the Euro-NMD neurophysiology group. His main areas of research are inflammatory neuropathies, electrodiagnosis and functional assessment scales in neuromuscular patients. He is the author of more than 180 peer-reviewed publications (H-index 44). He is immediate past-chair the Inflammatory Neuropathy Consortium (INC) of the Peripheral Nerve Society and he holds or has held leadership positions in the Belgian Neurological Society, the Belgian-Dutch Neuromuscular Study Group, the World Muscle Society, the European Academy of Neurology, the Belgian Association against NeuroMuscular Diseases (ABMM). He is a fellow of the European Academy of Neurology (FEAN) and of the American Academy of Neurology (FAAN).