Team of the Department of Rheumatology

Below you will find the managers of our department. Those listed here represent the approximately 90 employees of the department as a whole.

Departments

Management

Oliver Distler, Prof. Dr. med.

Director of Department, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 29 70
Specialties: Systemic sclerosis, Connective tissue disease, Systemic diseases

Adrian Ciurea, Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Vice Director of Department, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 29 32
Specialties: Axial spondyloarthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis, Psoriatic arthritis

Caroline Ospelt, Prof. Dr. med.

Forschungsgruppenleiterin, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 43 253 31 71
Specialties: The role of synovial fibroblasts in RA, Research areas: Synovial fibroblasts in arthritis, functional genomics, Specialized knowledge: Genetics, epigenetics, scRNAseq, analysis of functional fibroblasts

Brigitte Freyhof

Abteilungsleiterin Pflege

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87

Steffen Gay, Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Consultant USZ, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87

Carmen-Marina Mihai, PD Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Systemic sclerosis, Collagenoses, Inflammatory systemic diseases

Raphael Micheroli-Konuk, MPH, PD Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Psoriatic arthritis, Axial spondyloarthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis

Senior Attending Physicians

Adrian Ciurea, Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Vice Director of Department, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 29 32
Specialties: Axial spondyloarthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis, Psoriatic arthritis

Raphael Micheroli-Konuk, MPH, PD Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Psoriatic arthritis, Axial spondyloarthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis

Carmen-Marina Mihai, PD Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Systemic sclerosis, Collagenoses, Inflammatory systemic diseases

Attending Physicians

Mike Oliver Becker, PD Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Inflammatory systemic diseases, in particular vasculitis, collagenoses, Clinical studies, capillary microscopy

Sandra Blumhardt, KD Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Teaching, Ultrasound, Shock wave therapy

Raphael Butsch, Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Manual medicine, Interventional pain therapy

Aylin Canbek, Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Radiosynoviorthesis, Specialist in general internal medicine and rheumatology

Elisabeth Anna Deibel, Dr. med. univ.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: FMH General Internal Medicine, FMH Rheumatology , Certificate of competence in musculoskeletal sonography

Maria Diaz Machicado, Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87

Rucsandra Dobrota, Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Inflammatory systemic diseases, Collagenoses, Systemic sclerosis

Muriel Danièle Elhai, PD Dr. Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Systemic sclerosis, Collagenoses, Systemic diseases

Susanna Enderlin Steiger, Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Osteoporosis, Adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Katja Göhner, Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Specialist in rheumatology , Specialist in internal medicine FMH , Sonography certificate

Brigitte Magdalena Küchler, Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: FMH Rheumatology, FMH Allg. Internal medicine, Certificate of competence in musculoskeletal sonography (SGUM)

Constantina Violeta Marinescu, Dr. medic. (RO)

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Crystal arthropathies (Crystal arthropathies), Specialist in internal medicine, Specialist in rheumatology

Bojana Müller-Durovic, PD Dr. med. Dr. phil.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 43 253 31 72
Specialties: Specialist in rheumatology, Specialist in internal medicine, Rheumatoid arthritis

Marco Sprecher, Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87
Specialties: Sjögren's syndrome, Salivary gland biopsies

Marianne Strassmann-Bozzone, Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87

Katharina Zachariassen, Dr. med. univ.

Attending Physician, Department of Rheumatology

Tel. +41 44 255 26 87