{"id":1184,"date":"2025-01-27T15:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-leuven.be\/?post_type=team&#038;p=1184"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:36:40","slug":"dr-stephan-gordts","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/life-leuven.be\/en\/team\/dr-stephan-gordts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephan Gordts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section  class=\"we-header_team\" data-aos=\"fade\">\n    <div class=\"inner-content\">\n        <div class=\"breadcrumb\">\n            <p><a href=\"https:\/\/life-leuven.be\/team\/\">Team<\/a> \/ Dr. Stephan Gordts<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"title-container mobile\">\n            <h1>Dr. Stephan Gordts<\/h1>\n            <p class=\"function\">Founder of Life, scientific director<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"left\" data-aos=\"fade-right\">\n            <div class=\"image\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"886\" height=\"1090\" src=\"https:\/\/life-leuven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FOTO-STEPHAN-GORDTS.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/life-leuven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FOTO-STEPHAN-GORDTS.jpg 886w, https:\/\/life-leuven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FOTO-STEPHAN-GORDTS-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/life-leuven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FOTO-STEPHAN-GORDTS-768x945.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/>            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"focus-areas\">\n                <div class=\"the-content\">\n                    <h4>Fields of expertise:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Transvaginal laparoscopy<\/li>\n<li>Endoscopic reproductive surgery<\/li>\n<li>Endometriosis<\/li>\n<li>One stop fertility exploration<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/life-leuven.be\/one-stop-fertiliteitexploratie\/\">One stop fertility exploration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"right\" data-aos=\"fade-left\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <div class=\"title-containe desktop\">\n                    <h1>Dr. Stephan Gordts<\/h1>\n                    <p class=\"function\">Founder of Life, scientific director<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"the-content\">\n                    <p>Dr Stephan Gordts graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), where he trained in OBGYN from 1973-1977. He then spent two years doing research work at KUL and trained in microsurgery. Since 1978, his main clinical interest and his entire career has been devoted to reproductive medicine. He is an expert in microsurgery and operative laparoscopies. In 1982, he completed a postgraduate degree in ART at Monash University, Melbourne. As the doctor responsible for the IVF programme, he was closely involved in the birth of the first IVF baby in Belgium in June 1983. In 1984, he founded \u2018Leuven Institute for Fertility &amp; Embryology (LIFE) \u2019where he is still chief and scientific director.<\/p>\n<p>From 1992 -1995, he was associate professor at the Department of Gynaecology at UCL (Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain, Brussels), where he was director of the IVF unit.<\/p>\n<p>He has always been interested in minimally invasive techniques and consequently introduced the new technique of transvaginal laparoscopy and the concept of the one-stop fertility clinic in 1998. He has authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and book chapters.<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"featured_media":1039,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1184","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Stephan Gordts - Life Leuven<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/life-leuven.be\/en\/team\/dr-stephan-gordts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Stephan Gordts - Life Leuven\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/life-leuven.be\/en\/team\/dr-stephan-gordts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Life Leuven\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-30T09:36:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/life-leuven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FOTO-STEPHAN-GORDTS.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"886\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1090\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/life-leuven.be\\\/en\\\/team\\\/dr-stephan-gordts\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/life-leuven.be\\\/en\\\/team\\\/dr-stephan-gordts\\\/\",\"name\":\"Dr. Stephan Gordts - 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