Collen-Francqui Chair for Prof. Dr. Bernard Dan

Professor Dan will present a series of lectures on the shifts in paradigms that govern the concepts and views of disability we use in clinical practice, research and society. The series consists of 10 individual lectures.

Francqui Foundation

Biography

Bernard Dan is a paediatric neurologist at Inkendaal Rehabilitation Hospital, Professor of neuroscience and developmental psychology at the faculty of Psychological Sciences and Education at ULB, and visiting professor at the VUB and KU Leuven. Professor Dan has researched, taught, authored books and has contributed to significant changes in relation to knowledge about neurodevelopmental disabilities. As Editor-in-Chief of the internationally respected journal Development Medicine and Child Neurology (DMCN), which publishes scientific articles on childhood-onset disability, Professor Dan has overseen a tremendous evolution in the way we view disability and perform research in this field.

His clinical and scientific interests include cerebral palsy, neurogenetic disorders and neurophysiology. He is chair of the European Academy of Childhood Disability (EACD) and on the steering committee of other international academies dedicated to childhood disability [American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM), Australian Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AusACPDM), British Paediatric Neurology Association (BPNA), chair of the scientific committee of La Fondation Paralysie Cérébrale and of the Auschwitz Foundation]. He has written more than 300 academic articles and several books on various aspects of disability and bioethics.

He has also been the scientific curator of several art exhibitions dedicated to disability and is the author of novels and short stories.

Inaugural lecture

The Inaugural lesson Towards the end of disability?  takes place on Tuesday 28 March 2023 at 17:30 in Het Pand (Refter hall), Onderbergen 1, 9000 Ghent.

The lecture will be given in English and will be followed by a reception.

Please confirm attendance to this lecture by no later than 24 March 2023 via this link.

Overview of lectures

"Shifts in paradigms that govern the concepts and views of disability"

The lectures will all be in English and will be offered throughout the years 2023-2024.