Portrait Roman Guggenberger

Roman Guggenberger
Prof. Dr. med. univ.

Senior Attending Physician, Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Other functions at USZ

  • Head of Image Diagnostics Wollishofen
  • Head of the interdisciplinary MSK research group

Specialties

  • Musculoskeletal radiology
  • Neuroradiology
  • Neurography of peripheral nerves

Career

03/2020 CAS in Medical Leadership
04/2018 Head of the interdisciplinary USZ imaging diagnostics center Wollishofen, USZ
01/2018 Senior Attending Physician, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, USZ
03/2017 FMH diploma in diagnostic neuroradiology
06/2016 Head of Musculoskeletal Imaging Research Group
02/2015 VENIA LEGENDI for Radiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich
01/2014 Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, USZ, Prof. Dr. J. Hodler
07/2012 – 09/2013 Clinical Fellowship Pediatric Neuroradiology, Children’s Hospital Zurich
07/2011 – 12/2011 MSK Clinical and Research Fellowship at the Balgrist Orthopaedic University Clinic
10/2010 – 03/2011 Resident at the Department of Neuroradiology (NRA), USZ, Prof. Dr. A. Valavanis
01/2010 – 09/2010 MSK Fellow at the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, USZ, Prof. Dr. J. Hodler
10/2007 – 12/2013 Resident at the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (DIR), University Hospital Zurich (USZ), Prof. Dr. B. Marincek and Prof. Dr. J. Hodler
09/2004 – 08/2007 Training and licensing for general practitioners in Austria
01/2004 – 09/2004 Military hospital in the Conrad barracks, Innsbruck
01/2003 – 03/2004 The influence of estrogenes and phytoestrogenes on cell-cycle and apoptosis in prostatic stromal cells, Laboratory for Urologic Research, Department of Urology (ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helmut Klocker), Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
09/2001 – 09/2002 ERASMUS stay at the Faculty of Medicine, Valladolid/Spain
09/1996 – 04/2004 Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
06/1996 Matura with distinction
1988 – 1996 Adolf-Pichler-Platz secondary school, Innsbruck, Austria
1984 – 1988 Völs elementary school, Tyrol, Austria

Most important memberships

  • International Skeletal Society (ISS)
  • European Society of Skeletal Radiology (ESSR)
  • European Society of Radiology (ESR)
  • Swiss Society of Radiology (SSR)
  • Swiss Society of Skeletal Radiology (SSSR)

Research focus

  • MR neurography
  • Body composition profiling
  • Modern CT and MR procedures in MSK radiology