Prof. Christoph A. Meier is currently the Director of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital Zurich. He heads the expert panel of the Swiss Medical Board for health technology assessments, is a member of the Federal Committee for Quality and serves on the Board of the Novartis Venture Fund.
Prior to his current role, he was from 2016 until 2020 the Chief Medical Officer and deputy CEO at the University Hospital Basel, where he implemented VBHC as a management tool, including PROMs as key tools for quality management. Before 2016 he was the Chief of the Department of Internal Medicine & Specialties and a member of the Board of Directors at Triemli Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, as well as Chief of Endocrinology and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology at the University Hospital Geneva.
Prof. Meier received his Medical Degree from the University of Basel in Switzerland and holds his Swiss Board Certification (FMH) in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology & Diabetology.
He completed his medical residency at the University Hospital of Geneva and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health in the Molecular, Cellular Nutritional Endocrinology Branch in Bethesda, MD (USA).
Prof. Meier was also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician Fellow at the Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as a Clinical Fellow in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
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