Dr. Ruben De Groote

CEO

Dr. Ruben De Groote is the current CEO of 4Health and its digital learning platform Surgquest. Ruben is a consultant urologist at the Onze Lieve Vrouw Hospital Aalst in Belgium with a focus and interest on robotic surgery and uro-oncology. 

He has been trained and mentored by Prof. Dr. Alex Mottrie and did a dedicated fellowship robotic surgery at University College London. 

Also, Ruben is a PhD candidate at KU Leuven and Orsi Academy by which he is examining the added value of proficiency based progression training for the adoption of basic robotic skills.

Inge Meesters

COO

Inge is the Chief Operating Officer of 4 Health Belgium. Her main focus is on building and implementing the company operational strategy.

She has a multi-disciplinary background as she graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven as a Master in Commercial Sciences majoring in Business Management and Entrepreneurship. After that, she got a 2nd Master's degree in Economics, Law & Business Studies.

With several years of experience in management consulting with a focus on (international) strategic growth, she is well-equipped to contribute to 4 Health Belgium’s growth story!

Dr. Eduard Roussel

Urology lead

Dr. Eduard Roussel is a senior resident in Urology at the University Hospitals Leuven with a special interest in uro-oncology and continued medical education. He obtained a PhD at the Catholic University of Leuven on patient selection strategies throughout the renal cancer disease spectrum and continues both translational and clinical research within the field of renal cancer and uro-oncology. 

He is also a full member of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Young Academic Urologists (YAU) renal cancer working group since 2018, participating in research projects across the globe.

Dr. Ellen Hagopian

Hepatobiliary surgery lead

Dr. Ellen Hagopian is a Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgeon and holds the academic post of Associate Professor of Surgery and Medical Education and the Assistant Dean for Clinical Education at University of Toledo College of Medicine in Toledo, Ohio, USA.

Dr. Hagopian was trained in General Surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and subsequently in minimally invasive surgery at New York Medical College in New York, USA. She was further trained in Hepatobiliary Surgery at Centre Hépatobiliare, Hôpital Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France, under the tutelage of the Pr. Henri Bismuth. Dr. Hagopian’s current surgical practice at the University of Toledo in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery has a particular focus in minimally invasive and robotic surgery.

Dr. Hagopian has served on multiple educational committees for Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA), Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) and American College of Surgeons (ACoS). She has held multiple surgical education leadership positions, including Chair of the AHPBA Education and Training Committee, Chair of the ACoS previous National Ultrasound Faculty, and Chair of the AHPBA Ultrasound Subcommittee. She also serves as Associate Editor for HPB.

Dr. Hagopian is an accomplished educator and has been a leader in surgical training, including HPB ultrasound training and technical skills training courses for HPB Surgeons and Fellows in North America. Her research interests focus in surgical education, in particular in surgical ultrasound and surgical skills assessment.

Dr. Riccardo Bertolo

Urology lead

Riccardo Giuseppe Bertolo works as an Assistant Professor of Urology at the University of Verona, Verona, Italy.

He did a PhD in Bioengineering applied to Medical-Surgical sciences at the Polytechnic of Turin - Italy - and attended a research fellowship in robotic urology at Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio, USA).

He conducts his clinical practice at Borgo Trento Hospital in Verona, Italy. His surgical activity is focused on urologic minimally-invasive surgery (mostly robot-assisted) for the treatment of prostate, kidney, and urothelial cancers, and benign ureteral diseases.

His research fields predominantly cover urologic oncology, with particular interest in kidney cancer, and technological innovations in minimally-invasive surgery. He published over 200 papers in the most prestigious peer-reviewed urology/surgery journals and serves as a reviewer for over 40 peer-reviewed journals, including the most prestigious urology journals.

Within the European Association of Urology (EAU), he is a Full Member of the Young Academic Urologists - Renal Cancer Working Party and an EAU robotic urology section (ERUS) Associate Member. He serves as Associate Editor for the European Association of Urology Educational Platform on Kidney Cancer (UroOnco platform).