Portrait Sena Blümel

Sena Blümel
PD Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Specialties

  • Acute and chronic liver diseases
  • Transplant hepatology
  • Inpatient gastroenterology and hepatology

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 85 48
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Career

Other specialties
  • Molecular mechanisms of steatotic liver diseases, Gut-Liver-Axis

Career

Since 07.2025 Leading Physician, Head of Inpatient Unit
11.2023 – 06.2025 Attending with extended responsibilities (“Senior physician with extended responsibilities”)
02.2023 Specialist for Hepatology (FMH)
09.2021 Venia legendi of University of Zurich (“Privatdozentin”)
09.2020 Attending (“senior physician”)
06.2020 FMH Gastroenterology
Since 2017 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
08.2015 – 10.2017 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California San Diego, USA
Research fellowship at the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Bernd Schnabl
04.2015 – 07.2015 FMH General Internal Medicine
06.2012 – 07.2015 Department of Internal Medicine, Zurich City Hospital Triemli, Switzerland
03.2010 – 05.2012 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
01.2010 MD Thesis “Transactivation of EGF-Receptor by Angiotensin II in Human Gastric Cancer Cell Lines”
12.2009 Graduation and Approbation as Physician
2006 – 2009 Department of Pathology, Charité University Hospital Berlin, Germany
08.2005 – 03.2006 ERASMUS scholarship for student exchange, Istanbul Üniversitesi, Turkey
2002 – 2009 Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Most important memberships

  • FMH (Swiss Medical Association)
  • SASL (Swiss Association for the Study of the Liver)

Research focus

  • Gut-barrier defects and NASH
  • Complications of chronic liver disease
  • Assessment of liver fibrosis

Publications

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