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SwissTB
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SwissTB Stiftungsrat
| Dr. Otto Brändli
Zürcher Höhenklinik Wald (1977-2007)
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President |
| Dr. Laurent P. Nicod
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois CHUV
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Vicepresident |
| Dr. Jean Pieters
Biozentrum Basel
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| Dr. Paul Imboden
Dr. PI Bioconsulting, Zollikofen-Bern
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| Dr. Pascal Meylan
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois CHUV
Institut de Microbiologie et Division de Maladies Infectieuses
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| Dr. Irène Garcia
Department of Pathology
University of Geneva
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Short portrait of the board members |
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Otto Braendli, MD, president SwissTB, born 1942 in a small mountain village near Zürich, motivated for life long study of TB by severe pulmonary TB of my father with long hospitalization in the Zürcher Höhenklinik Wald in 1961, at the time of my career decision.
MD degree of Zürich University after studies
in Vienna and Montpellier, subspezialisation in
pulmonary medicine in Basle and NYU in New York,USA,
chief of pulmonary division in the Zürcher
Höhenklinik Wald 1977-2007.
Hobby: books (from my wifes internet bookstore www.buchland.ch) and travel.
CV.pdf (in
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Clinic and Policlinic of Pneumology
The Pulmonary Clinic is specialized in lung disease related to all major breathing disorders. Obstructive disease of the airways such as asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease related to smoking or environmental pollution are diagnosed and treated. Inflammations of the lung leading to fibrosis and to pulmonary hypertension are a major focus of interest and the subject of close interdisciplinary collaborations. Lung cancer and pneumonia are actively taken care of using non invasive and interventional bronchoscopy when required. Patients with breathing disorders are provided with assisted ventilation at home. All known sleep disorders are examined and treated in cooperation with the neurologists.
Chairman and Chief Physician: Prof. L. P. Nicod, MD
Prof. L. P. Nicod has been trained in internal medicine in Lausanne and in pneumology at South-western Medical School in Dallas (U.S.A.). He returned to Switzerland where he joined the staff at the University Hospital of Geneva. In Geneva he was responsible for patients with major disorders requiring ultimately lung transplantation. He is leading the pulmonary Clinic in Bern with major interest in lung defences and lung immunity.
For further information:
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Paul Imboden, Ph.D. swissTB Founding member.
Biochemistry studies at the ETH Zürich, Ph.D in Chemistry at the University of Berne,
Post Doc studies in Molecular Biology and Microbiology at
the University of Berne and Stanford Universit y (CV.pdf ).
Publications on PCR, Molecular Biology and Tuberculosis
Founder of Dr. PI
Bioconsulting,
Websites for research and e-learning.
check out Dr. PI Websites on tb: blueTB: Mycobacterium tuberculosis molecules
and Dr. PI's Mtbook, the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome in a book
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Pascal Meylan, MD,
born 1953 and educated in Lausanne, including medical school. Early inclination toward microbiology (dealing with clean little things and colourful test tubes). Got a clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases during the eighties, including research projects on bacterial diseases in animal experimental models (pyelonephritis and endocarditis).
From 1988 to 1992, post-doc in San Diego, California. Met there HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis with the challenge of setting up dual infections in human macrophages. This was an opportunity to realize how poorly immunity against M. tuberculosis was then understood.
In 1992, return to Switzerland. From then on, investigating the role of the induction of apoptosis of infected macrophages in the host defenses against M. tuberculosis. Various research projects related to HIV and growing participation in the diagnosis of viral infections, in particular in relation with solid organ transplant patients (PubMed).
Soemtimes found dreaming in front of a map of Switzerland to his next bike ride. |
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