Background
Colardyn, Francis Achille was born on December 3, 1944 in Kortrijk, Belgium. Son of Evariste and Carolina Colardyn.
Colardyn, Francis Achille was born on December 3, 1944 in Kortrijk, Belgium. Son of Evariste and Carolina Colardyn.
Doctor of Medicine, State University, Ghent, Belgium, 1970; postgraduate, State University, Ghent, Belgium, 1973-1976; specialist in internal medicine degree, State University, Ghent, Belgium, 1975.
Assistant in internal medicine, University Hospital, Ghent, 1970-1975;
assistant professor intensive care unit and emergency room, University Hospital, Ghent, 1976-1986;
head department intensive care, University Hospital, Ghent, since 1981;
professor intensive care, University Hospital, Ghent, since 1986;
full professor, U. Ghent, since 1997. President department medicine International Faculty Schelde, since 1994. Member National Council on Blood, since 1995.
President communications of Recognition in Intensive Care, 1996.
Member Commission to the Ministry of Health for medical urgencies, 1976-1985. Member Belgium Society Ultrasonagraphy, Belgian Society Medical Informatics, Belgian Society Intensive Care (bureau, member teaching commission, president 1993-1994), Belgian Association Burn Injuries, Belgian Society Oxygen Metabolisms, European Society Intensive Care Medicine (member county since 1996), Toxicological Society Belgium and Luxembourg, Belgian Working Group on Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology, American Society Microbiology, Dutch-Belgian Society for A.R.D.S. (board directors since 1990), Society Critical Care Medicine, European Society Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Reanimation Society French Language, Flemish Society Clinical Nutrition Metabolism (founding), New York Academy Sciences, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
Married Michelle Fauconnier, July 10, 1967 (divorced 1989). Children: Gregory, Anouk. Married Marie-Antoinette Van Den Berghe, September 10, 1989 (divorced 1993).