Mieke Cannie has followed her medical studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and subsequently specialised in Radiology in the same faculty. During the last 2 years of her training in Radiology, she underwent a PhD on fetal magnetic resonance imaging or fetal MRI.
In may 2008, she returns to Brussels to become responsible at the Radiology department at the University Hospital Brugmann, in Brussels. Since November 2012, she has been appointed as a Professor at the Vrij Universiteit Brussel.
Mieke Cannie is one of the rare specialists in fetal MRI in Europe. Her scientific research work allowed tremendous advances in the field of fetal MRI.