Regional Anesthesia

BIOGRAPHY

Main Fields of Research:

In our department we focus on the different possibilities of peri- and postoperative analgesia for and after orthopedic surgery: New galenic application forms, epidural catheters after major scoliosis operations, perineural catheters for upper and lower limb surgery, complications with these catheters, use of new local anesthetics, control of their clinical effects and measurement of blood concentration, new ways to treat postoperative pain at the donor-site for bone graft at the iliac crest. Another field of interest is the prevention and treatment of postoperative nausea and vomiting. We are interested to find out more about the microbiological mechanisms of the anti-inflammatory effects of local anesthetics in the context of acute lung injury. We are studying the influence of non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on bone cells.

EDUCATION
1973 Federal High School Diploma – Typ C
1974-80 Medical School, University of Lausanne
1980 Federal Diploma of Medicine, University of Lausanne
1981 Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) received in Geneva
1981 Certificate for Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, received in Luzern
1985 PhD from the University of Lausanne
1988 Diploma of the Swiss Association of Anesthesiology and Reanimation
1988 Doctorate FMH for Anesthesiology
1989 Diploma for Intensive Care Medicine (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Intensivmedizin)
1989 European Diploma for Intensive Care Medicine
1991 Doctorate FMH for Intensive Care Medicine
1994 Associate Professor, Medical School, University of Geneva
1999 Associate Professor, Medical School, University of Zurich
2001 Professor, Medical School, University of Zurich
2003 Academician Member of the European Academy of Anesthesiology
2003 Visiting Professor University of Toronto General Hospital
2006 Full Professor Regional Anesthesia University of Zurich
2007 Visiting Professor General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 Visiting Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology; University of Illinois, College of Medicine, Chicago IL/USA

MEMBERSHIP
Vice Chairman of the ESRA Diploma Board (2009)
Member of the Executive Board ESRA European Society of Regional Anesthesia (since 2009)
Executive committee of the Swiss Association of Regional Anesthesia SARA (since 2008)
Member expert group "Editorial Advisory Board of Advances in Anesthesiology and Critical Care" (since 2008)
President of the Commission of Regional Anesthesia of the Swiss Society of Anesthesia and Reanimation (since 2004)
Member American Society of Anesthesiology (since 2004)
Member European Expert Group on the study of pain (since 2003)
Honorary and Scientific Member of the Committee of Alrf (Anesthésie loco-régionale fran-cophone) (since 2003)
Member Advisory Board on Naropin (since 1999)
Member Committee EuroSIVA (since 1998)
Member of the Swiss Association for the Study of Pain (since 1998)
Member European Society of Regional Anaesthesia (since 1997)
Member European Academy of Anaesthesiology (since 1997)
Member Society of Intravenous Anesthesia (SIVA), Steering Committee of the task force (since 1997)
Member of the Swiss Association of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (since 1996)
Member of the Société Médicale Valaisanne (since 1993)
Member of the Swiss Association of Intensive Care Medicine (since 1992)
Member European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (since 1989)

AWARD
2008 Elected as honorary member for his merits to the Belgian Society of Anesthesia and Resuscitation