Nathalie Goemans

Nathalie Goemans is a pediatrician and child neurologist, with certification in rehabilitation medicine, affiliated to the KUL University of Leuven, currently emeritus since November 2020. She was a staff member since 1987 at the University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium, as head of the clinic within the Department of Pediatrics (Child Neurology) and head of the Neuromuscular Reference Centre for Children at the University Hospitals Leuven, and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Leuven, Belgium. She is a consultant at DVC Heder, Antwerp, Belgium, a rehabilitation center with a residential setting for neuromuscular patients.

Research activities involve translational and clinical research in various neuromuscular disorders, the development of new therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and spinal muscular trophies, and the research and development of outcome measures to assess interventions in these diseases.