Portrait Bernhard Pestalozzi

Bernhard Pestalozzi
Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology

Other functions at USZ

  • Vice Head of Breast Center Comprehensive Cancer Center Zurich
  • Vice Head of the Gynecological Tumor Center Comprehensive Cancer Center Zurich

Specialties

  • Breast cancer and gynecological tumors
  • Gastrointestinal tumors

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 22 14
VCard

Other competencies

  • Head of oncology training center SIWF (Cat.A, 3 years)
  • Deputy Head of the Breast Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Zurich
  • Deputy Head of the Gynecological Tumor Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Zurich
  • Member of the Board of SAKK, Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research, Bern

Career

1981 State examination University of Geneva
1982 Postgraduate Course in Experimental Medicine, University of Zurich
1981-1984 Research Associate, Experimental Pathology, University Hospital Zurich
1984-1985 Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Schaffhausen
1986-1991 Resident, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University Hospital Zurich
1991-1993 Fellow, Medicine Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda MD, USA
1999 Habilitation UZH
2008 Titular professorship UZH
2008-2020 (and still) Senior Attending Physician, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology
2013-2019 Head of Intestinal Tumor Center, University Hospital Zurich
2018-2020 Vice Director of Department of Oncology

Most important memberships

  • American Society of Clinical Oncology ASCO
  • European Society of Medical Oncology ESMO
  • Swiss Society for Medical Oncology SGMO
  • Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine SGAIM
  • Medical Association of the Canton of Zurich
  • Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum FMH

Research focus

  • Breast cancer, adjuvant treatment, brain metastases
  • Colon cancer, management
  • Pancreatic cancer, management
  • Delivery of health care at the end of life
  • Cost-effectiveness of cancer care

Further

  • Research Prize of the Swiss Society for Hematology 1990
  • Prize of the Dr. Arnold and Susanne Huggenberger-Bischoff Foundation for Cancer Research 1992
  • Dissertation 1984, UZH
  • Habilitation 1999, UZH
  • Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research, SAKK, Project Group Breast Cancer (since 1993), Project Group GI Tumors (since 1995), Board of Directors (since 2013)
  • International Breast Cancer Study Group, IBCSG, Scientific Committee

Publications

Publication list