M. Merckx

Name and position

• Mireille Merckx, M.D., P.H.D
• Specialised in Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Andrology
• Subspecialty in Paediatric and Adolescent gynaecology
• Head of Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics AZ Jan Portaels Vilvoorde since 2014
• Staff member of the “Vrouwenkliniek” at the University Hospital of Ghent , leading the department of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology since 2012
• Research activity at ICRH University Ghent
• Head of Department Paediatric of the Adolescent Gynaecology of the Sint Pieter Hospital in Brussels and the Children’s Paola Hospital in Antwerp until 2012
• Consultant in the Clinic of Gynaecology – Obstetrics, Erasme Hospital (ULB), Anderlecht until 2012
• Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Flemish Obstetrical and Gynaecological Association (VVOG) since 2007
• Member of GAMS (Group for the Abolition of Sexual Mutilation), trainee for medics and paramedics in sexual mutilation pathology,
• Member of the multidisciplinary team on FGM at University of Ghent
• Consultant in family parenthood at the “City Planning” ULB/VUB, Brussels
• Member of the Alumni of the VUB and ULB
• Member of the group “Doctors without leave”
• Member of the Groupement Français de Gynécologie Pédiatrique et de l’Adolescence, Paris since 2006
• Belgian Mandate in Paediatric Gynaecology FGJI and EURAPAG since 2010

ESC mandate

• Belgian delegate on the Board of the European Society of Contraception since 2012
• Member of the European Society of Contraception since 2007
• Reserve auditor of the treasurer’s accounts of the ESC in 2011

Area of expertise/ interest

• Communication and counselling in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Contraceptive methods and contraceptive behaviour
• Premature menarche
• Vulvovaginal mucosal pathology in children and adolescents
• HPV prevalence in children and ado’s

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