Portrait Britta George

Britta George
Prof. Dr. med.

Director of Department, Department of Nephrology

Other functions at USZ

  • Member of the Board of Trustees Transplantation Center

Specialties

  • Glomerular diseases
  • Kidney transplant
  • Genetic kidney diseases

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 33 84
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Career

Since 11/2023 Director of the Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Zurich, Chair of Nephrology, University of Zurich
2022 Specialist for lipid metabolism disorders (Lipidologist DGFF®)
03/2021 – 10/2023 Senior Attending Physician, Department of General Medicine Internal Medicine and Emergency Department as well as Renal and Hypertensive Diseases and Rheumatology, Münster University Hospital
2020 Specialist in nephrology
2020 Venia legendi for the subject of internal medicine, University of Münster
12/2017 – 02/2021 Attending Physician, Department of General Medicine Internal Medicine and Emergency Department as well as Renal and Hypertensive Diseases and Rheumatology, Münster University Hospital
2018 MBA ‘Management in Medicine’, University of Münster
2016 Specialist for internal medicine
2012 – 2013 Postdoc in Neurobiology, University of Münster
2009 – 2012 Postdoc in the Nephrology Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, USA
2009 Postdoc in the Nephrology Laboratory at the University of Michigan, USA
2008 Promotion
as of 01/2006 Specialist training in internal medicine, specialist training in nephrology, Department of General Medicine. Internal Medicine and Emergency Department as well as Renal and Hypertensive Diseases and Rheumatology, Münster University Hospital
2005 License to practice medicine

Most important memberships

  • Swiss Society of Nephrology (SGN)
  • Scientific Commission of the Swiss Society of Nephrology
  • Steering Board Zurich Kidney Center
  • German Society for Nephrology
  • German Society for Internal Medicine
  • Marburger Bund

Research focus

  • Analysis of disease mechanisms in glomerular diseases
  • Examination of monogenetic kidney diseases
  • Deciphering mechanisms that lead to the transition from acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease