General information and mission statement
Professor Dr. Luc Mortelmans welcomes you to the Division of Nuclear Medicine.
General contact information
Nuclear Medicine Division, E901
UZ Gasthuisberg
Herestraat 49
B-3000 Leuven
Tel.: (+32) 16 / 34 37 15
Fax : (+32) 16 / 34 37 59
Email : francine.reniers@uzleuven.be
Mission statement
The division of Nuclear Medicine is based at the University Hospital Gashuisberg, Leuven, and is part of the Faculty of Medicine of the Leuven University.
Its mission is centered around the four poles of a university hospital : health care, research, education and community service.
As medical division, the division of Nuclear Medicine, aims at optimization of second and third-line specialized functional diagnositic imaging with focus on quantitative emission tomography such as PET and SPECT, and to an optimal delivery of therapy with open radioactive sources in combination with quantitative diagnostic capacities. This health care setting is realised at high level on human, scientific and technological areas and is carried out with a personal approach to the patients and in accordance with the highest respect for human dignitiy. Continuous improvements and innovating health care is strived for. The care for the patient is carried out in a multidisciplinary clinical and technological setting where a symbiosis with both referring physicians, medical imaging and radiopharmacy is sought.
The division stimulates transmural activities within the framework of several functional networks with other hospitals, institutions or health care organisatioins, with the aim at a dynamic exchange implying the highest quality norms. The division intends personnel management that stimulates the human skills, professional expertise and sense of responsability, together with continuous education.
As part of the university, the division of Nuclear Medicine aims at scientific boundary breaking research in combination with knowledge transfer, as essential and complementary objectives. In its quest for knowledge, the division is lead by the demands of scienfitic methodology and deontology.
As edcuational division, the division of Nuclear Medicine aims at interdisciplinary education of high quality and education based on evidence based medicine and scientific research. The division seeks not only pure factual knowledge, but promotes the abilities to recognize problems, forumulate them and solve them. The division also creates an environment of stimulating education which is continuously evaluated according to the goals of the university, including student stimulation, self-reflection on didactical quality of teachers and use of new education forms and technologies.
Apart from education and research, the division has important missions on the terrain of community services : it puts its expterise at the service of the governments, organisations and companies. As part of a Flemish University, the division aids the participation of the Flemish people to the technological and cultural richness of the world. As international oriented divsion, it endeavours intense interuniversitary collaboration, exchange of teachers and students, and actively aids to the enrichment of biomedical science in Europe and in the world.
