Team of the Transplantation Center

The Transplantation Center is managed by a board of directors. It is made up of managers and representatives of the specialist disciplines involved in transplantation. There is also a board of trustees that strategically defines and supervises the center's activities.

Board of Trustees

Frank Ruschitzka, Prof. Dr. med.

Director of Department, Department of Cardiology

Tel. +41 44 255 21 21
Specialties: Heart failure, Heart transplantation

Felix Beuschlein, Prof. Dr. med.

Director of Department, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Clinical Nutrition

Tel. +41 44 255 36 25
Specialties: Endocrine hypertension, Adrenal gland diseases, Endocrine tumors

Omer Dzemali, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c.

Director of Department, Department of Cardiac Surgery (Allianz Herzchirurgie Zürich-St. Gallen)

Tel. +41 44 255 47 29
Specialties: Minimally invasive surgery , Mitral valve surgery , Reconstructive surgery

Markus Manz, Prof. Dr. med.

Director of Department, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology

Tel. +41 44 255 38 99
Specialties: Leukemias, Lymphomas, Plasma cell diseases

Nicolas Müller, Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology

Tel. +41 44 255 33 22
Specialties: Infectiological treatment of patients before and after transplantation

Frank Rühli, Prof. Dr. Dr. med.

Vertreter der Medizinischen Fakultät, Universität Zürich, Institut für Evolutionäre Medizin, Transplantationszentrum

Isabelle Schmitt-Opitz, Prof. Dr. med.

Director of Department, Department of Thoracic Surgery

Tel. +41 44 255 88 04
Specialties: Robotic surgery, Advanced oncological resections, Pulmonary endarterectomy

Reto Schüpbach, Prof. Dr. med.

Director of the Institute, Institute of Intensive Care Medicine

Tel. +41 44 255 10 92

Macé Schuurmans, PD Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Department of Pulmonology

Tel. +41 44 255 39 26
Specialties: Transplant pneumology , Cystic fibrosis , Stop smoking

Sina M. Coldewey, Prof. Dr. Dr. med.

Director of the Institute, Institute for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Tel. +41 44 255 26 95
Specialties: Overall management of the Institute of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Full professor and holder of the Chair of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Zurich, Research focus on perioperative organ failure and sepsis

Matthias Josef

Department Manager, Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery

Tel. +41 44 255 47 81

Michael Weller, Prof. Dr. med.

Director of Department, Department of Neurology

Tel. +41 44 255 55 00
Specialties: Neuro-Oncology

José Oberholzer, Prof. Dr. med.

Chief Physician, Chair of the Department, Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery

Tel. +41 44 255 33 00
Specialties: Tumor surgery of the abdomen, including liver, bile ducts and pancreas, Transplant surgery for adults and children (liver, pancreas, kidney, small intestine, islet cells, parathyroid tissue)., Robotically assisted minimally invasive surgery of the liver, bile ducts and pancreas, as well as kidney and pancreas transplantation

Britta George, Prof. Dr. med.

Director of Department, Department of Nephrology

Tel. +41 44 255 33 84
Specialties: Glomerular diseases, Kidney transplant, Genetic kidney diseases

Jakob Nilsson, Ph.D., PD Dr. med.

Director of Department ad interim, Department of Immunology

Tel. +41 44 255 20 69

Board of Directors

Nicolas Müller, Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology

Tel. +41 44 255 33 22
Specialties: Infectiological treatment of patients before and after transplantation

Andreas Flammer, Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Department of Cardiology

Tel. +41 43 253 83 08
Specialties: Head of heart failure and heart transplantation, Head of Assist-Devices Consultation, Co-Head of the Amyloidosis Network Zurich

Andreas Kremer, Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Tel. +41 44 255 85 48
Specialties: Transplant hepatology, Hepatocellular carcinoma, Molecular mechanisms of autoimmune and cholestatic liver diseases

György Lang, Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Department of Thoracic Surgery

Tel. +41 44 255 85 43
Specialties: Lung transplantation, ECMO, General thoracic surgery

Irina Léa Dubach, Dr. med. Dr. sc. nat.

Attending Physician, Department of Pulmonology

Tel. +41 44 255 39 26

Fabian Rössler, PD Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery

Tel. +41 44 255 11 11

Dominik Schneidawind, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil.

Senior Physician, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology

Tel. +41 44 255 37 82
Specialties: Allogeneic stem cell transplantation, Autologous stem cell transplantation, CAR-T cell therapy

Nawid Khaladj, MBA, MLaw, Prof. Dr. med.

Ärztlicher Co-Direktor QSB

Tel. +41 43 253 41 46
Specialties: Structural and process quality, Automation, robotics and artificial intelligence, Digital transformation

Mirjam Nägeli, Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Department of Dermatology

Tel. +41 44 255 11 11
Specialties: Extracorporeal photopheresis, Head of immunosuppressed consultation hours, inpatient consultations, Head of NonMelanomaSkinCancer

Matthias Josef

Department Manager, Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery

Tel. +41 44 255 47 81

Wesley Hayes, Prof. Dr.

Abteilungsleiter Nephrologie, Kinderspital Zürich & Associate Professor, University College London

Tel. +41 44 249 63 31

Kerstin Hübel, Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Department of Nephrology
Senior Attending Physician, Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery

Tel. +41 44 255 33 84
Specialties: Transplant surgery

Sven Hillinger, PD Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Department of Thoracic Surgery

Tel. +41 44 255 41 04
Specialties: Minimally invasive surgery, Tumor surgery, Smoking prevention and smoking cessation

Isabelle Schmitt-Opitz, Prof. Dr. med.

Director of Department, Department of Thoracic Surgery

Tel. +41 44 255 88 04
Specialties: Robotic surgery, Advanced oncological resections, Pulmonary endarterectomy

Rolf Schüpbach, Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Institute for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Tel. +41 43 253 96 51
Specialties: Anesthesia for thoracic and visceral surgery, Severe pulmonary hypertension, Coagulation management in liver surgery and transplantation

Stephanie Klinzing, PD Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Institute of Intensive Care Medicine

Tel. +41 43 253 81 92

Katja-Daniela Jordan, KD Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine

Tel. +41 44 255 97 00
Specialties: Special consultation hours for transplant psychiatry and psycho-oncology, Emergency, consultation and liaison psychiatry, Lecturer in psychosocial medicine at the University of Zurich

Lukas Frischknecht, Dr. med. Dr. sc. ETH Zürich

Attending Physician, Department of Immunology

Tel. +41 44 255 11 12

Pascale Tinguely, Ph.D., PD Dr. med. Dr. phil.

Senior Physician, Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery

Tel. +41 43 253 73 42
Specialties: Liver transplantation , Hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery

Martin Oliver Schmiady, Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Cardiac Surgery (Allianz Herzchirurgie Zürich-St. Gallen)

Tel. +41 43 253 11 66

International Advisory Board

  • Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Finke
    Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg
  • Prof. Dr. med. univ. Georg Böhmig
    Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna
  • Prof. Maria Generosa Crespo-Leiro, MD, PhD
    Head of Heart Failure and Transplantation, University of Coruña
  • Prof. Dr. med. Lucrezia Furian
    Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences, University of Padua
  • Prof. Dr. med. Hasse Møller-Sørensen
    Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Risgkospitalet, University of Copenhagen
  • Prof. Dr. med. Vera von Dossow
    Institute for Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy, Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum
  • Prof. Dr. med. Shaf Keshavjee OC O.Ont MD MSc FRCSC FACS
    Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
  • Prof. Dr. med. Vincenzo Maria Mazzaferro
    Department of General Surgery, Oncology and Liver Transplantation, University of Milan, IRCCS Foundation, National Cancer Institute