Year of primary qualification: 2008
Current institution: University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland
Title of presentation: Perioperative managment in colorectal surgery (Core Subject Update)
Learning objectives: Pathophysiology of the surgical stress response. Optimizing perioperative management; preparation: smoking cessation, prehabilitation; nutritional screening and perioperative nutrition; bowel preparation: sense or non-sense? Steroids
Clinical/research background
Appointments:
- Consultant surgeon, Clinic for General and Visceral Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital (2012 to present)
- Junior staff, Lausanne University Hospital (2008-2010)
- Fellowship: Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA (2011)
- Residency: Zurich University Hospital, Ilanz County Hospital, Lausanne University Hospital (2003-2008)
Academic Training:
- Specialist in Visceral Surgery, Swiss Medical Association (2013)
- Venia legendi (Privatdozent) at the University of Lausanne (2013)
- EBSQ coloproctology (2012)
- Fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA (2011)
- Specialist in General Surgery, Swiss Medical Association (2008)
- United States Medical Licensing Examination (2006)
- Doctoral thesis, University of Freiburg i. Brsg., Germany (2002)
- German medical diploma (2002)
- Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Hamburg, Germany (1999-2002)
- Research Fellowship at the Institute of Physiology, University of Freiburg, Germany (1998-1999)
- Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Freiburg i. Brsg., Germany (1995-1999)
Current fields of clinical practice and research:
- Colorectal surgery
- Enhanced recovery after surgery
- Perioperative nutrition
- Peritoneal carcinomatosis (CHIP, PIPAC)
Relevant peer-reviewed publications
- Preoperative nutritional screening by the specialist instead of the Nutritional Risk Score might prevent excess nutrition: A multivariate analysis of nutritional risk factors. Nutrition Journal 2015
- Use of the nutritional risk score by surgeons and nutritionists. Clin Nutr 2015 Randomized clinical trial on Epidural versus Patient-controlled Analgesia for laparoscopic colorectal surgery within an enhanced recovery. Ann Surg 2014
- Timing of complications and length of stay after rectal cancer surgery. J Am Coll Surg 2014 Enhanced recovery pathway for urgent colectomy. World J Surg 2014
- Guidelines for perioperative care after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) society recommendations. Clin Nutr 2013
- Cost effectiveness of the implementation of an enhanced recovery protocol for colorectal surgery. Br J Surg 2013 Intrathecal analgesia and restrictive perioperative fluid management within enhanced recovery pathway-hemodydynamic implications.
Information submitted for ESCP Dublin 2015
