About Me
Matthijs grew up in Aalter, a town between Ghent and Bruges in the Flemish part of Belgium. After obtaining his medical degree at the University of Ghent (Belgium) in 2013, he started his clinical training in Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology at the University Hospital of Basel (Switzerland) under the direction of Drs. Victor Valderrabano (MD, PhD) and Marcel Jakob (MD). Parallel to his residency program, he started a PhD at the University of Ghent focused on the study of the glenohumeral relationship in normal and arthritic shoulders by use of three-dimensionally reconstructed CT-scans under the mentorship of Drs. Lieven De Wilde (MD, PhD) and Alexander Van Tongel (MD, PhD). Driven by his interest in the morphology and biomechanics of the shoulder joint, Matthijs joined the ORL in January 2016 as a research fellow. In his free time, he enjoys cycling, jogging, skiing and music.