Aurelie D'Hondt

Dr. Aurélie D'Hondt is a pediatric body and fetal radiologist radiologist with subspecialty interest in advanced ultrasound imaging applications as well as post-mortem imaging. She was appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in 2024 and works as a staff radiologist in the body imaging division at the Hospital for Sick Children. Her clinical and academic focus is fetal imaging and postnatal correlations of fetal malformations, fetal and neonatal virtual autopsies and advanced abdominal ultrasound techniques such as contrast enhanced ultrasound and quantitative ultrasound. Dr. D’Hondt is an active member of the Fetal and Post-mortem Taskforce of the ESPR, as well as their Research Committee. In addition, Aurelie is actively engaged in enhancing post-graduate medical education, fostering mentorship, and encouraging development of radiology trainees.

Research

Dr. Aurelie D’Hondt's primary research involves using quantitative Ultrasound for assessment of liver steatosis in children and contrast-enhanced ultrasound of the pediatric urinary tract. She recently started a PhD on the implementation and standardization in clinical practice of virtual autopsies for perinatal losses.

Education and experience

• 2024–present: Staff pediatric radiologist, Body imaging division, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• 2020–2024: Staff pediatric and fetal radiologist, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital Delta – CHIREC, Brussels, Belgium.
• 2023: Diploma in Fetal Medicine, Sorbonne Univesity, Paris, France
• 2022: Diploma in Pediatric Imaging, Sorbonne Univesrity, Paris, France
• 2018–2019: Research Fellow, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital- Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
• 2018: Diploma in Obstetrical Ultrasound, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
• 2013–2018: Diagnostic Radiology Resident, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. 2016-2017: Diagnostic Radiology Resident at Jeanne de Flandres & Salengro Hospital, CHU de Lille, France.
• 2005–2013: Doctor of Medicine, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

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