Franz R. Eberli is Chief cardiologist at the City Hospital of Triemli in Zurich. He was appointed chief cardiologist at Triemlispital on July 1, 2007. He studied medicine in Zurich and specialised in internal medicine and cardiology at the University Hospital of Zurich and at Boston University in the USA. During his research in the USA he was mainly focused on metabolic changes during ischemia and reperfusion. From 1994 on he worked as a staff physician in interventional cardiology at the Boston University Medical Center. In 1997 he became head of the cardiac catheter laboratory at the Clinic of Cardiology in Inselspital Bern, and in 2002 he became head of the Andreas-Grüntzig Cardiac Catheter Laboratories of the University Hospital of Zurich. During his term of service, cardiology was advanced in several sectors and was transformed into a large clinic. During this time, interventions for congenital heart defects and interventions in large vessels close to the heart were performed in large numbers in the field of interventional cardiology. Simultaneously, the 24-hour service for acute coronary syndromes was optimised and the system of a cardiologist being available round the clock was introduced.