Priest
surgery
Surgery
Switzerland
Biography
After completing his medical studies at the University of Geneva , he went to exercise at New York , then in England , in Germany and France before returning to Switzerland to work in Kinderspital of Zurich , where he specialized in heart surgery for children, transplantation , cardiac malformations and reconstruction of some valves 1 . In 1999 , he denounced the widespread use of laser in cardiac operations in an article in The Lancet2 , 3 . The January 9 , 2010, he is elected " Switzerland of the Year 2009" during the televised ceremony "SwissAward" 4 . Since August 2012, he has been a professor at the University of Lausanne and head of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery of the Vaud University Hospital Center (CHUV)
Research Interest
Surgery
