Since 2025
Deputy Head of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine (100 %), University Children’s Hospital of Basel (UKBB)

2025
Transfer to the University of Basel

2010
Paediatrics, L'Ospedale dei Bambini Meyer, Florence

2010
Internal Medicine/Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Centre, New York, USA

2009
Surgery, Hirslanden Clinic, Zurich

2007
General clinical training, University of Padua, Italy

2004 - 2010
Medical studies, Justus Liebig University, Giessen

Functions

• Member of the Scientific Board of the Clinical Research Collaboration Working Group of the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
• Chair of the Pulmonary Function Section of the German Society for Paediatric Pneumology
• Delegate for Respiratory Medicine at the Swiss Society for Paediatrics

Memberships

• Swiss Society for Paediatric Pneumology
• European Respiratory Society (ERS)
• German Society for Paediatric Pneumology
• European Society for Paediatric Research

Supervised dissertations:

• Amanda Gisler; PhD University of Basel, accepted 2022: "Main and interaction effects of gaseous and particulate pollutants on respiratory health in children"
• Andrea Suter; MD University of Basel, accepted 2019: "Variability of respiratory parameters in preterm infants and correlations with respiratory diseases in infancy: A cohort study"
• Desirée Demann; MD University of Bern, accepted 2018: "Interrupter technique in infancy: Higher airway resistance and lower short-term variability in preterm infants compared to term infants"

Teaching activity:

• Clinical skills training for medical students, University Children's Hospital Zurich
  Teaching at the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes": "Krankheit, Evidenz, Nichtwissen. Current issues in the philosophy of medicine."
• Lessons for medical students during "Science Month (WIMO)" at the University of Basel

Professional journals

Securing competitively awarded, peer-reviewed external funding totalling CHF 3.4 million as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator over the last ten years.

1. Swiss National Science Foundation: Prematurity-associated lung disease: from the origins of the disease to longitudinal monitoring through to adulthood (CHF 1.8 million; 09/2026 Principal Investigator)
2. Foundation for Children with Cancer, Regio Basiliensis: Novel lung function testing and lung imaging to identify the causes of pulmonary dysfunction in paediatric cancer patients (CHF 35,000; 07/2025 Principal Investigator)
3. Lunge Zurich: Expanding access to novel contrast-agent-free functional pulmonary MRI for paediatric patients. (CHF 60,000; June 2023, Co-investigator)
4. Swiss Cancer Research: Innovative lung function testing and lung imaging to identify the causes of pulmonary dysfunction in paediatric cancer patients. (CHF 366,000; July 2022; Principal Investigator)
5. Vertex Unrestricted Grant: An in-depth analysis of the treatment effects of Trikafta (elaxacaftor, tezacaftor and ivacaftor) on disease-specific breath markers using SESI-HRMS, as well as sputum inflammation and the microbiome, in children and adolescents aged 12 and over with cystic fibrosis. (CHF 220,000 as co-investigator, 09/2021)
6. Swiss Cancer Research: Pulmonary dysfunction following childhood cancer: assessing early-stage disease (Phase 2). (CHF 370,000; July 2021; Co-investigator)
7. Palatin Foundation: Combining lung function, lung imaging and breath analysis to investigate pulmonary dysfunction in paediatric cancer patients. (CHF 200,000; 09/2020; Principal Investigator)
8. Swiss Lung Association: Effects of air pollution on lung function and lung growth in Swiss children. (CHF 60,000; July 2020; Principal Investigator)
9. Lung League Berne: Luftibus: the relationship between smoking behaviour at school and respiratory health outcomes in Swiss children. (CHF 63,000; June 2020; Co-investigator)
10. University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Research Centre for Children: Interdisciplinary assessment of patients with a single ventricle: how do the heart, lungs and patients adapt to an unphysiological circulation? (CHF 66,000; 01/2020; Co-investigator)
11. University of Basel Research Fund: Exhaled breath analysis in paediatric patients exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (EBATS). (CHF 80,000; 08/2018; Principal Investigator)
12. University Children’s Hospital Basel “Special Programme” Grant: Non-invasive urinary eicosanoid profiles for the study of acute respiratory tract infections in infancy. (CHF 65,000; December 2017; Principal Investigator)
13. German, Swiss and Austrian Society for Paediatric Pneumology: “Cluster analysis of risk factors for respiratory symptoms in the first year of life and associations with the development of asthma in school-age children. (CHF 20,000; 04/2016; Principal Investigator)

2022
Pfizer Research Prize Clinical Research Award (for PhD student Amanda Gisler, under my supervision)

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