Karlien François received her MD degree in 2007 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. After finishing her internal medicine and nephrology training at Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, she completed her clinical education with a Home Dialysis Fellowship at Toronto, supervised by Joanne Bargman and Christopher Chan.
She currently works as nephrologist at Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel.