Other competencies
- Prevention of cardiovascular diseases
- Clinical evaluation of biomarker candidates
- Coordination of research consortia
- Teaching: Teaching as well as planning and implementing new concepts in student teaching and further and advanced training in laboratory medicine
Career
| since October 2001 | Director of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry at the University Hospital Zurich and Full Professor of Clinical Chemistry at the University of Zurich |
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| 2001 | Appointment as Full Professor of Clinical Chemistry at the University of Zurich |
| 2000 | Appointment as Associate Professor, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
| 1994 | Habilitation and Venia Legendi for “Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine”, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
| 1993 -2001 | Attending Physician and Deputy Director of the Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Münster and Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
| 1993 | Specialist in laboratory medicine by the Westphalia-Lippe Medical Association (recognized by the BAG as equivalent to a specialist in laboratory medicine FAMH with a focus on clinical chemistry) |
| 1993 | Clinical Chemist by the German Society for Clinical Chemistry |
| 1989 | Doctorate (Dr. med.) (Human Genetics, Justus Liebig University Giessen) |
| 1988-2001 | Research group leader at the Institute for Arteriosclerosis Research at the University of Münster |
| 1988-1993 | Resident, Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Münster and Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
| 1986-1988 | Resident, Medical Clinic of the Bürgerhospital Frankfurt/Main |
| 1986 | License to practice medicine |
| 1979 -1986 | Studied human medicine at Justus Liebig University Giessen and Christian Albrechts University Kiel |
| 1979 | A-levels |
Most important memberships
National
- Swiss Society for Clinical Chemistry (2003-2011 Board member, 2004 – 2006 Chairman of the Technical Commission, 2006-2008 President, 2009 – 2011 Treasurer, since 2009 representative of the SGKC in the Laboratory Commission of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences)
- Lipids and Atherosclerosis Working Group of the Swiss Society of Cardiology (= Swiss Atherosclerosis Society: member of the Board since 2006, President 2013-2017)
International
- German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (2000-2003 Board Member; 2000-2006 Editor-in-Chief of “LaboratoriumsMedizin/Journal of Laboratory Medicine”)
- German Society for Arteriosclerosis Research (2000-2009 board member, 2003-2006 president, 2006-2009 deputy president)
- European Lipoprotein Club (2001-2012 Member of the Organizing Committee, 2008-2012 Chairman)
- DACH Society for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases (Board member since 2012)
- European Atherosclerosis Society (2012 – 2020 Board Member, 2017-2020 Secretary, 2016-2024 Editor-in-Chief “Atherosclerosis”, since 2022 Chairman of the Election Committee, since 2022 Member of the Anitschkow Award Jury)
Membership of editorial boards of scientific journals and books
- Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (2006-2023)
- Atherosclerosis (since 2001, 2008-2015 Associate Editor, since 2016 Editor-in-Chief)
- Biochimica Biophysica Acta Molecular Biology of Lipids (since 2016)
- Cardiovascular Research (since 2019)
- Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (2006-2020)
- European Heart Journal (since 2011)
- Journal of Lipid Research (2006-2017)
- Tietz Textbook of Laboratory Medicine (7th Edition, 2023)
Research focus
- Structure, function, metabolism and clinical significance of lipoproteins
- Risk factors and biomarkers of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases
Publications
To the publication listFurther
- Since 2003 Director of the University Center for Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich
- Coordinator of the “Mantelstudium” (since 2004) and the Research Focus Week (since 2021) in the medical degree program at the University of Zurich
- Since 2008 also entitled to award doctorates at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Zurich
- Founding director of the Certificate of Advanced Studies course “Laboratory Medicine” at the University of Zurich
- Co-author of several national and European recommendations on the management of lipid metabolism disorders
- Editor and author of several textbooks or textbooks on biochemistry, pathophysiology, laboratory medicine, differential diagnostics or atherosclerosis