Peter Moortgat

Peter Moortgat graduated as physical therapist in 1985. He specialized in burns- and scar therapies in 1997 and developed expertise in physical scar management.

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Nowadays he is Research coordinator at OSCARE, a multidisciplinary aftercare and research center in Antwerp, Belgium. He is also Academic Coordinator of Scar Academy, an international educational program on scar therapy. He is executive board member of the Global Scar Society and the European Tissue Repair Society. He is also guest lecturer of QMUL University in London and editorial board member of Scar, Burns and Healing.

 

Since 2025, Peter founded BridgewAI to bridge the gap between the scar community and artificial intelligence. His topics of interest are soft-tissue techniques, scar-taping, vacuum-massage, shockwave-therapy, micro-needling, mechanobiology of scarring and integration of AI in scar mitigation.