Dr. Bart Leroy

Dr. Bart Leroy is a professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Genetics, and Visual Electrophysiology at Ghent University and the Head of the Ophthalmology department at Ghent University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium. He completed his medical degree (MD), PhD in medical sciences, residencies in clinical genetics and Ophthalmology, and a fellowship in medical retina and visual electrophysiology at Ghent University. He also completed a fellowship in medical retina, inherited retinal diseases, visual electrophysiology, and molecular genetics at Moorfields Eye Hospital & Institute of Ophthalmology in London, UK.

Dr. Leroy's focus is on the diagnosis and detailed clinical phenotyping of inherited retinal degenerations as well as in the development of innovative treatments, including serving as a clinical investigator on therapies for RPE65-IRD and CEP290-IRD. He is a board member of the International Society for Genetic Eye Disease & Retinoblastoma, the Société de la Génétique Ophtalmologique Francophone, and the Belgian Society of Ophthalmology, and is a co-opted board member for ophthalmic genetics of the European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA).