Christine Sempoux was recently appointed as Professor of Pathology and Médecin Cheffe in Clinical Pathology at the Institute of Pathology at the CHUV.
Her diagnostic activities are focused on digestive pathology.
She graduated as a MD at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) in 1990 and obtained a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Sciences in 2002. The same year, she received the Alvarenga de Piauhy price from the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium for her work on the endocrine pancreas. She spent one year of observership at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City (NY, USA) to increase her pathologist’s experience in digestive oncology and hepatology. From 1998 to 2014, she was a senior member of the Pathology Department at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc (Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium), and she became Professor in 2005.
She has authored more than 160 scientific publications. She is a member of the Laennec Liver Pathology Society, the Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society and the European Society of Pathology.