Tom De Potter is a Medical Doctor, Cardiologist in training and PhD candidate at the University Hospital (UZ) of Brussels and VUB. He earned his Medical degree from VUB and obtained US Medical License Examinations (USMLE) Step 1 and 2CK in 2021.
His PhD started in 2023 and, supervised by Prof. Dr. Jean-François Argacha, Prof. Dr. Steven Droogmans, and Prof. Dr. Bernard Cosyns, focuses on the effect of air pollution and other environmental pollutants on coronary heart disease.
Since 2025, he is fully funded as work package responsible in the HORIZON Europe-granted ENACT project (Environmental Effect on Health Care and Wellbeing and Active Interventions, GA 101157151). This project runs from January 2025 to June 2028, and aims to predict, monitor, and prevent the impact of environmental stressors on non-communicable disease (NCD), with a particular focus on vulnerable patient populations.
His areas of interest include environmental cardiology, cardiac imaging, and sports cardiology
Individual, socio-economic and environmental vulnerabilities to the effects of air pollution on STEMI hospital admissions: results from a Belgian nationwide 9-year case-crossover study
Event: ESC Congress 2025
Topic: Environmental Aspects of Heart Disease
Session: Global health trends (3)
