Since January 2018:
Office-based Pediatrician, Kinderzentrum Lindenpark, Baar – Switzerland
Since October 2016:
Scientific Secretary of the Swiss Vaccination Commission (EKIF / CFV)
Scientific Collaborator of the University of Geneva for the Swiss Electronic Vaccination Certificate
October 2014 – September 2016:
Senior Medical Advisor Vaccines, Pfizer, Berlin and Zurich
Responsibilities:
- Medical Affairs support for the DACH region
- EU lead for the Meningococcal group C vaccine
- Supervision of a team of 4 direct reports (Medical-Science-Relationship managers)
- Global Training activities
October 2013 – September 2014:
Director Medical Affairs Europe, Nuron Biotech GmbH, Schaffhausen
Responsibilities:
- Medically Responsible Officer
- Lead Pharmacovigilance and Medical Information, ISMC chair
- Responsible for Training Activities
- Support and Review of Marketing Activities
October 2012 – September 2013:
Responsible for the optimal implementation of the new hospital reimbursement system SwissDRG in the University Children’s Hospitals of Zurich, Basel and St. Gallen and for Public & Administrative Relations of AllKidS (Alliance of Autonomous University Children’s Hospitals)
Responsibilities:
- Implementation of a political and economic awareness campaign about specific needs of pediatric hospitals
- DRG improvement program
- Tariff negotiations with national and health insurance authorities
- Political lobbying
In parallel (since 2006):
- InfoVac-expert (WHO-certified consulting team for vaccine related questions of physicians, under the auspices of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health and the Swiss Pediatric Society)
- Elected member of the Swiss Federal Vaccination Commission (EKIF / CFV), until 2007
- Vaccinology consultant for Medgate, Basel (official Swiss public vaccination helpdesk)
- Scientific board member and speaker for independent educational events in pediatric infectious diseases and vaccinology
- Advisory Board member for several international vaccine companies
March 2012 – September 2012:
Consultant with H Services, Baar, Switzerland
Tasks:
- Medical and administrative Consultant for Hospitals
- Training in DRG coding (basics and advanced) and Medical Controlling.
January 2012 – February 2012:
Consultant for Vaccinology/Infectious Diseases (self-employed)
Tasks:
- Medical and scientific advice for biopharmaceutical companies and public health institutions
September 2010 – December 2011:
Chief Medical Officer, GlycoVaxyn AG, Schlieren, Switzerland
Responsibilities:
- Responsibility for the preclinical and clinical development of the vaccine pipeline – 2 direct line reports, 1 indirect line report
- Responsibility for Regulatory Affairs – 1 direct line report
- Certified GCP trainee
- Close interactions with international Key Opinion Leaders
- Elaboration of several scientific communications (ICAAC, ESPID, ECTRIMS, VED, CoVAC)
September 2006 – August 2010:
Associate Director, global Medical Affairs, Biogen Idec International GmbH, Zug, Switzerland
Responsibilities:
- Active participation in Medical Information team activities
- Planning, management, and evaluation of international phase III – IV studies
- Publication planning and Life Cycle Management
- Preparation of and participation in symposia and Advisory Board meetings
- Medical Interaction with company affiliates and regulatory authorities in different countries
- Medical guidance (incl training and train-the-trainer programs) and advice of affiliate staff and interactions with international and local key opinion leaders
- Counseling and coordinating activities with clinical development and commercial teams
- Business development activities on an international level
May 2001 – August 2006:
Consultant in pediatric infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital in Lucerne
June 1997 – August 2006:
Pediatric consultant at the Kantonsspital Zug and the Andreasklinik Cham (including neonatology and neonatal hip ultrasound)
In parallel:
- Office Pediatrician in Baar, Switzerland
- Elected member of the Swiss Federal Vaccination Commission (EKIF)
- Medical responsible of the Swiss Red Cross for the TB screening and vaccination program of the Swiss Migration Sanitary Screening Organization
- INFOVAC-expert (WHO-certified consulting team for vaccine related questions of physicians, under the auspices of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health and the Swiss Pediatric Society)
- Vaccinology consultant for Medgate, Basel (official Swiss public vaccination helpdesk
- Sales force trainings for different international pharmaceutical companies (vaccines)
- Member of different national and international advisory boards for pharmaceutical companies (vaccines)
- Scientific board member and speaker for independent and company-sponsored educational events in pediatric infectious diseases and vaccinology
June 1995 – May 1997:
Clinical and scientific fellow, head of the Infectiology-Vaccinology Center at the University Children’s Hospital Basel
In parallel: Supervision of the vaccination program of the Swiss Migration Sanitary Screening Organization (Swiss Red Cross) and member of the Swiss Vaccination Commission (SKIF)
July 1993 – May 1995:
Vice head of the section for bacterial and parasitic diseases, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Department of epidemiology and infectious diseases
January 1990 – June 1993:
Resident at the Paediatrische Klinik des Kinderspitals Luzern
Jan. 1989 ‑ Dec. 1989:
Resident at the Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie der Universität Zürich
Oct. 1986 ‑ Dec. 1988:
Resident at the Hygienisch‑mikrobiologisches Institut des Kantonsspitals Luzern
April 1986 ‑ Sept. 1986:
Resident at the Medizinische Universitäts‑Kinderklinik, Bern
April 1985 ‑ March 1986:
Intern at the Solothurnische Höhenklinik Allerheiligenberg, Medical Department
Commissions
- elected member of the Swiss Federal Vaccination Commission (EKIF), 1995-2007
- representative of the Swiss Pediatric Society in the Swiss Pulmonary League (Tuberculosis)
Memberships
- American Society for Microbiology
- European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases
- Forum für Praxispädiatrie
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Infektiologie
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Mikrobiologie
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Pädiatrie
- Schweizerische Vereinigung für Ultraschall in der pädiatrischen Praxis
- Zuger Ärztegesellschaft
