Prof. Dr. Debacker

Curriculum Vitae

Michel De Backer, MD, MSc, PhD. He graduated from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel as medical doctor in 1970. Subsequently, he specialized in internal medicine, intensive care and emergency medicine. As military physician he was chairman of the Joint Medical Committee at NATO from 1995 to 1997. He was the co-founder of the European Master in Disaster Medicine (EMDM) in 1999 and the Emergency Management and Disaster Medicine Academy in 2008. He is currently working as professor in disaster medicine and is the director of the disaster unit of the Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His main area of research is the triage process and modeling of the disaster medical response.