Portrait Peter Schreiber

Peter Schreiber
PD Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology

Specialties

  • Surveillance of nosocomial infections/hospital-acquired infections
  • Outbreak investigation and control
  • Prevention of noscomial infections (especially CVC-associated bacteremia)

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 33 22
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Career

Since 01/2020 Research attending physician, Career funding program “Filling the Gap”, University of Zurich
Since 07/2017 Attending physician, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich
2016 Board Certification (FMH) in Infectious Diseases
2014 Board Certification (FMH) in Internal Medicine
01/2014 – 06/2017 Resident physician, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich
07/2013 – 12/2013 Resident physician, Critical Care Medicine, University Hospital Zurich
01/2013 – 06/2013 Resident physician, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich
09/2011 – 12/2012 Resident physician, Internal medicine, University Hospital Zurich
03/2009 – 06/2011 Resident physician, Internal medicine, Cantonal Hospital Schaffhausen
2009 Medical Thesis, Medical Faculty, Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg, Institute of Pathology
2001 – 2008 Medical Training, Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg

Most important memberships

  • Swiss Society of Infectious Diseases (SGINF)
  • Swiss Society of Hospital Epidemiology (SGSH)
  • Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum (FMH)
  • Fungal Infection Network of Switzerland (funginos)
  • Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics NGS working group on Microbe Typing and Characterization

Research focus

  • Cardiac surgery-associated Mycobacterium chimaera infections
  • Infections in the immunocompromised host
  • Surveillance and prevention of hospital-acquired infections

Publications

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