Thomas F. Lüscher is Professor and Chairman of Cardiology at the University Hospital Zurich and Director of CardioVascular Research at the Institute of Physiology of the University Zurich, Switzerland.
Professor Lüscher is a board certified internist and cardiologist with training in internal medicine at the University Hospital Zurich, cardiovascular physiology and cardiology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., USA and in cardiology and clinical pharmacology at the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
Prior to his current position he was Professor of Pharmacotherapy at the University of Basel, then Professor and vice-chairman of cardiology at the Inselspital of the University of Berne, Switzerland.
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Clinical activity
He has a broad clinical interest in the entire field of cardiovascular medicine from prevention (hypertension, lipid disorders, diabetes) to coronary artery disease (angina pectoris, myocardial infarction) to heart failure. He is an expert in pharmacotherapy and a trained interventional cardiologist regularly performing cardiac catheterizations and percutaneous coronary procedures (balloon angioplasty and stenting) as well as non-coronary interventions (percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale among others).
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Teaching Activities
Teaching involves lectures and courses for medical students, master as well as MD and PhD thesis, fellowship programmes as well as post-graduate courses in cardiology.
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Research activities
Professor Lüscher’s research interests focus on the role of endothelium-derived mediators in the regulation of vascular tone, platelet-vessel wall interaction, coagulation and inflammation as well as their role in atherosclerosis.
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Publications
Professor Lüscher has published over 400 original research articles and review articles. By the Institute for Scientific Information he has been rated as one of the 0.5% most cited scientists worldwide. He has obtained research awards.
