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
- European Society of Cardiology
- Swiss Society of Cardiology
- President of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (2016 – 2018)
- Honorary member of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology, 05/2015
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila” Bucharest 09/2016
- Honorary member of the Heart Failure Society of America, 09/2018
- Honorary member of the Croatian Society of Cardiology, 10/2019
Research focus
- Heart failure & heart transplantation
- Clinical Trial
- Translational Science
Publication
To the publication listFurther
- Cardiovascular Biology Award (Prize of the Swiss Society of Cardiology) 2001
- Prize of the Swiss Society for Hypertension 2001
- Prize of the Faculty of Medicine (Georg-Friedrich-Götz Prize of the University of Zurich) 2003
- Web of Science, Highly Cited Researcher