Franck Verschuren

Franck Verschuren serves as a Clinical Professor at the Emergency Department of Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc in Brussels and Lecturer at the Université Catholique de Louvain, where he specializes in internal and emergency medicine. His academic contributions include teaching respiratory physiology and pathophysiology to medical students, while his research focuses on CO2 measurement in pulmonary embolism patients, the subject of his 2005 doctoral thesis. He has published extensively in prestigious medical journals and collaborates with European research teams on pulmonary embolism studies. His innovative MOOC "Comprendre la respiration" earned the 2016 Wernaers Prize for excellence in scientific knowledge dissemination. Beyond his academic work, he practices medical hypnosis in emergency care, demonstrating his commitment to combining innovative treatment approaches with traditional medicine. His work bridges the gap between clinical practice, medical research, and public education in respiratory medicine.