Portrait Fabian Büchele

Fabian Büchele
Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Neurology

Other functions at USZ

  • Head of the Deep Brain Stimulation Section

Specialties

  • Movement disorders (including Parkinson's and tremor)
  • Escalation therapies for movement disorders (deep brain stimulation, focused ultrasound, pump therapies)

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 55 11

Other competencies

  • Neurological gait disorders
  • Functional movement disorders

Career

Since 2023 Head of the Deep Brain Stimulation and Other Escalation Therapies Section

Deputy Head of the Movement Disorders Department
Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich

Since 2021 Attending Physician, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich
2020-2021 Senior Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich
2019-2020 Attending Physician, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich
2018 Specialist title FMH Neurology
2018 Resident in internal medicine, Baden Cantonal Hospital
2016-2017 Fellow, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich
2012-2016 Resident, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich
2011 Resident, Clinic for Stereotactic Neurosurgery, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany
2003-2010 Studied human medicine at the University of Heidelberg, Germany with stays abroad in Stockholm, China, Zurich and New York

Most important memberships

  • Member of the “Tremor” guideline commission of the German Society of Neurology (DGN)
  • Swiss Movement Disorders Society (SMDS)
  • International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS)
  • Swiss Neurological Society (SNS)
  • Swiss Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (SGKN)
  • Zurich Neurology Society

Research focus

  • Parkinson’s disease (focus: sleep and neurodegeneration)
  • Tremor (focus: focused ultrasound)
  • Sleep Medicine

Publications

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