Richard Kobza studied at the University of Zurich until 1995, receiving his doctorate in 1996. The specialist training in Internal Medicine (2002) and Cardiology (2004) took place at the District Hospital Muri (AG), the Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, University Hospital Zurich and the Heart Centre of the University of Leipzig. At the Heart Centre of the University of Leipzig, he was trained as an interventional electro-physiologist. After his return to Switzerland he continued the research which he began there in the field of heart rhythm disturbances.
On 1.1.2010 he was appointed Head Physician at Lucerne Cantonal Hospital. His clinical focus is in interventional treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. In March 2011 the University of Zurich awarded Richard Kobza the Venia legendi as a lecturer in the field of Cardiology.