Jürg Reichen#
Sadly, this member passed away. | |
Membership Number: | 2062 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 2000 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Jürg Reichen passed away July 25, 2017.
Positions Held
- January 2008 – present Chief, Hepatology and Co-Director, University Clinic for Visceral Surgery and Medicine, University Hospital Inselspital, Bern
- 2001 – present Chief, Hepatology, University Hospital Inselspital, Bern
- 2000 - 2001 Chairman, Kuratorium Department of Clinical Research
- 2000 - 2001 Chairman, Kuratorium Department of Clinical Research
- 1998 - 1999 Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Medicine
- October 1994 – December 2007 Co-Director, Department of Clinical Pharmacology
- October 1994 - 1999 Co-Director, Department of Clinical Research
- April 1986 Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Bern
- November 1984 Venia docendi, University of Bern
- July 1984 - July 1985 Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Medical School, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
- July 1980 - June 1984 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Appointment in Internal Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Gastroenterology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, U.S.A. Training in transplant hepatology (Prof. T.E. Starzl)
- July 1979 - June 1980 Fellow in Gastroenterology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
- July 1978 - June 1979 Intern and Resident in Medicine, Georgetown University and Veterans Administration Hospital, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
- July 1976 - June 1978 Guest Scientist, Liver Unit, DDB, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, U.S.A. Training in Hepatology (Prof. P.D. Berk) and Hepatopathology (Prof. and Prof. K.G. Ishak)
- Jan 1973 - June 1976 Fellow in Clinical Pharmacology and Hepatology, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Bern, Switzerland (Prof. R. Preisig)
- Jan 1972 - Dec 1972 Fellow in Pharmacology, Department of Experimental Medicine, Hoffmann-LaRoche AG, Basel, Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- Treatment of viral hepatitis
- Treatment of fibrosis
- Pathophysiology of portal hypertension
Honours and Awards
- January 9, 1975 Doctor medicinae, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- June 1, 1976 Prize of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern for thesis: "Uptake of Bile Acids by the Perfused Rat Liver"
- July 1, 1976 Fellowship (2 years) of the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research
- July 1, 1981 Faculty Development Award in Clinical Pharmacology (2 years), The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association Foundation, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
- August 1, 1983 Research Career Development Award (5 years), National Institutes of Health, U.S.A.
- July 1, 1984 Research Career Development Award (6 years), Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research
- 1987 Prize of the Swiss Society for Internal Medicine
- 1987 Prize of the Swiss Society for Gastroenterology
- 1995 Cloëtta Prize
- 2002 Lucie Bolte Prize
- 2008 EASL recognition award