Ives Hubloue is the chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel) and of the Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine (ReGEDiM) at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Belgium). He graduated in Medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1988 and started a residency in Internal Medicine (finished in 1993) followed by a training in emergency, intensive care and disaster medicine (finished in 1995). In 2003 he obtained his PhD in Medical Sciences at the VUB. As associate professor at the medical school of the VUB he is responsible for the medical skills training for medical students (undergraduate and graduate). He is also the program director for the residency training in emergency medicine at the VUB. Besides this he is a Faculty member and Chairman of the Strategic Management Board of the European Master in Disaster Medicine (EMDM) course. With regards to education his interest is mainly focused on the integration of innovative technologies and methodologies such as blended learning, e-learning, virtual reality, augmented reality and computer simulation in educational programs. In 2011 he founded ReGEDiM. The mission of ReGEDiM is to bring emergency and disaster medicine to a higher level by creating and sharing scientific research, field expertise and knowledge. In 2018 he initiated a PhD-program in Global Health, Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Medicine.