Associate Professor Bart Van Wijmeersch is a neurologist specialised in multiple sclerosis (MS). He is the medical director of the University MS Centre in Pelt, where he leads the multidisciplinary MS team. He is also associate professor of Neurology at the University of Hasselt where he is involved in preclinical and clinical MS research at the Biomedical Institute (BIOMED/REVAL). Additionally, Prof Van Wijmeersch has an educational role in the Faculty of Medicine and Physiotherapy. He is a member of the Belgian Study Group of MS and was a co-founder and the first president of the ParadigMS Foundation, an organisation dedicated to MS education to help improve clinical care for MS patients. In 2019, he received an honorary award from the Flemish government to acknowledge his scientific work.