Bart is a member of the ESC Patient Forum, contributing to patient-centered advocacy and guidelines. Based on personal experience in aortic disease, dissection, stroke, obesity and partial vision loss, he contributes to ESC projects encompassing preventive and treatment topics. As ESC patient forum member, Bart co-authored the 2024 Hypertension and Evevated Blood Pressure Guidelines. As interim manager, Bart helps organizions start and scale-up, in the field of digitalization, data science and hybrid working / NWoW. In the early 2010's, he contributed - amongst others - to traceability and serialization of pharmaceutical packaging in a large manufacturing environment. Bart holds an executive MBA degree from Flanders Business School (Antwerp, Belgium) since 2008. He is currently working on the finalization of an additional MSc degree in Information Management / Enterprise Architecture at the IC Institute (Beerzel, Belgium) - planned in 2025.