Lennart JANS, MD, PhD
PROF. DR. LENNART JANS MD, PhD is head of clinics in musculoskeletal imaging of the department of radiology of Ghent University Hospital in Belgium. After his radiology residencies in Ghent and Liverpool, he embarked on a fellowship in pediatric radiology in Melbourne, Australia.
He is former Chair of the ESSR Arthritis Subcommittee and a member of BSR, ESSR, ASAS, ESR and OMERACT. As a musculoskeletal radiologist, his main field of interest is in inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases, with a focus on spondyloarthritis. He has authored or co-authored about 125 scientific papers; edited, and co-authored four books and is a lecturer at Ghent University. He is the publisher and editor of the book 'Arthritis Imaging' and co-founder of the AI company RheumaFinder, seeking to detect signs of rheumatic disease in the early stages of the disease.
In the last decade, he served as president of a series of international conferences on arthritis imaging in Ghent. As a lecturer, he has given numerous presentations for radiologists and rheumatologists alike at national and international conferences.