| Since 2023 |
Full Professor and Chairman of the Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Head of the Section for HPB and Transplant Surgery, University of Zurich |
| since 2017 |
Associate Professor of Surgery and Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System |
| since 2004 |
Founder and coordinator of the Chicago Diabetes Project, an international collaboration for a functional cure for diabetes |
| 2017 – 2022 |
Director of the Transplant Service Line (heart and VADs, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas), and the Charles O. Strickler Transplant Center; Chief, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA |
| 2007 – 2017 |
Director of the Transplant Program, Chief Resident in the Department of Transplantation and Full, Endowed C. & B. Frese and G. Moss Professor of Surgery, Bioengineering and Endocrinology, University of Illinois Hospital & Health Science System |
| 2011 – 2013 |
Master’s degree in Healthcare Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston |
| 2002 – 2003 |
Fellowship in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery and Transplantation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (Prof. N. Kneteman and Prof. J. Shapiro). ASTS-accredited Fellowship Program |
| 1998 – 2002 |
Head of the human islet cell transplantation program, Senior Physician at the Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 1996 – 1998 |
Resident, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Geneva University Hospital, Prof. Ph. Morel |
| 1994 – 1996 |
Resident, General Surgery, Triemli City Hospital, Zurich, Prof. U. Metzger |
| 1993 – 1994 |
Resident, General Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Uri, Altdorf, Dr. G. Burri |
| 1993 – 1998 |
Surgical specialist training in Switzerland |
| 1994 |
Dissertation at the University of Zurich, Dr. G. Uhlschmid and Prof. F. Largiadèr |
| 1988 – 1992 |
Medical studies, University of Zurich |
