Current experience:

AZ Oudenaarde – Belgium:
Foot – Ankle – Knee surgeon:
Since August 2022

University Hospital Ghent – Belgium
Consultent Foot -Ankle surgery
Since Febr 2023

Fellowships

Melbourne Orthopaedic Group – Western Health Public Hospital Footscay
Melbourne – Australia
Febr 2022 – July 2022
David Shepherd and Tim Schneider
Fellowship in primary and revision ankle arthroplasty, sports medicine and complex hind and forfoot surgery

ZNA Middelheim
Antwerp – Belgium
Aug 2021 – Jan 2022
Kris Buedts, Dominique Spaepen and Debbie Vanrenterghem
Fellowship in primary and revision ankle arthroplasty, sports medicine and complex hind and forfoot surgery

OrthoClinic Brugge
AZ Sint-Jan and AZ Sint-Lucas Bruges – Belgium
Aug 2022 – Jan 2023
Pieterjan Vandekerckhove, Lucas Beckers and Geert Van Damme
Fellowship in primary and revision knee arthroplasty and sports medicine

Residency:

University Hospital Ghent, Belgium: Prof. Dr. J. Victor
Aug 2019 – July 2021

AZ Sint-Lucas Bruges, Belgium: Dr. G. Van Damme 
Aug 2018 – July 2019

AZ Sint-Jan Bruges, Belgium: Dr. Bruno Vandekerckhove
Aug 2017 – July 2018

AZ Delta Roeselare, Belgium: Dr. Luc Van den Daelen
Aug 2015 – July 2017

Internship

International Internship
ICRH Coast General Hospital Mombassa, Kenia
Mar 2014 – May 2014
orthopaedics, traumatology and gynaecology

Erasmus Internship
Uniklinikum Heinich-Heine Düsseldorf, Germany
Orthopaedics/Traumatology/handsurgery and Gynaecology

Education

Master of Specialist Medicine – Main subject Orthopaedic Surgery
Ghent University
Aug 2015 – July 2021

Master of Science in Medicine
Ghent University
Sept 2008 – July 2015

Certificate ATLS ‘Advanced Trauma Life Support’
University Hospital Ghent
Sept 2021

Memberships

Belgian Foot and Ankle Society

Belgische vereniging voor Orthopedie en Traumatologie

European Foot and Ankle Society

Publications/Presentations

Hannes Vermue, Lenka Stroobant, Gilles Thuysbaert, Nele Arnout, Jan Victor
The learning curve of imageless robot-assisted total knee arthroplasty with standardised laxity testing requires the completion of nine cases, but does not reach time neutrality compared to conventional surgery. International Orthopaedics 2023 Feb;47(2):503-509.

Starting position as a foot and ankle surgeon
Oral presentation on Orthopaedica Belgica Instructional Course 19 november 2022, Brussels, Belgium

Gilles Thuysbaert, Chul Ki Goorens, Bert Vanmierlo, Koen Mermuys, Jean Goubau. Addition-subtraction osteotomy with ligamentoplasty for symptomatic trapezial dysplasia with metacarpal instability: a 10-year follow-up. Journal of Hand Surgery, Am. Vol. Jan 2021

L’ostéotomie d’addition-soustraction avec ligamentoplastie pour dysplasie trapézienne avec instabilité métacarpienne symptomatique: serie continue avec au moins 10 ans de suivi. Oral speech Journée Du President June 2018, Les Vans, France. Oral speech 14th IFSSH 20 juni 2019 Berlin, Germany

Gilles Thuysbaert, Thomas Luyckx, Alexander Ryckaert, Paul Gunst, Jan Noyez, Philip Winnock de grave. Reduced joint awareness after total knee arthroplasty with a cruciate retaining design. Acta Orthopaedica Belgica 2020

Gilles Thuysbaert, Pieterjan Vandekerckhove, Bruno Vandekerckhove. Case presentation: Marlex Meshgraft for extensor mechanism reconstruction.
Belgian Knee Society open meeting: OMG, when it goes wrong Sept 2018, Antwerp, Belgium

Gilles Thuysbaert, Akkie Ringburg, Steven Petronillia, Alex Vanden Berghe, Nadine Hollevoet.
Measurement of ulnar variance and radial inclination on X-rays of healed distal radius fractures. With the axis of the distal radius or ulna? Acta Orthopaedica Belgica. 2015, 81, 308-314