Career
Specialist in cardiology and internal medicine. Research awards from the Swiss Society of Cardiology, the Swiss Hypertension Society, and the Georg Friedrich Goetz Prize 2003 from the University of Zurich. From 2016 to 2018, Frank Ruschitzka is President of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
Most important memberships
- President of the European Society of Cardiology, Heart Failure Association (ESC-HFA), 2016-2018 / President-elect, 2014-2016.
- President-elect of the European Society of Cardiology, Heart Failure Association (ESC-HFA), 2014-2016.
- Treasurer of the European Society of Cardiology, Heart Failure Association (ESC-HFA), 2012-2014.
- Cluster Chair of the Program Committee of the European Society of Cardiology, since 2007
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, FRCP Edinburgh, 2007
- European Hypertension Specialist/ESC/ESH, 2006
- Member of the Program Committee of the European Society of Cardiology, since 2002
- Member of the European Society of Cardiology, since 2001
- Swiss Association against High Blood Pressure, 2001
- Swiss Society of Cardiology, 1998
- Working Group Heart Failure of the Swiss Society of Cardiology
- American Heart Association
- American College of Cardiology
- European Hypertension Specialist/ESC/ESH