Profile
- Teaching medical students, residents and postgraduate nursing students in emergency medicine and point of care ultrasonography
- Three research focus areas: diagnostic quality, tele-emergency medicine and e-health, applied emergency medicine
- Nine research groups in these three focus areas
External Partners
Extensive international cooperations with ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Diabetes Technology; Institut für Gebirgsnotfallmedizin EURAC, Bozen; CHUV Lausanne; HUG Genf; Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin; Institute of Educational Measurement, University of Oslo, Norway; Sarah Lawrence College, New York University School of Medicine, USA; Charité Berlin, Germany; Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ISPM at University of Bern; MSc programme “Global Health – Disaster Medicine”, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Basel; Faculty of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Grants
- SNSF Project as lead investigators: CoMind: Improving diagnoses by understanding the collaborative and cognitive processes of medical teams (Project No 218047)
- SNSF Project as lead investigators: The digital diagnostician - how information technology affects medical diagnoses (SNF No. 187284)
- SNSF Project as co-investigators: IOw-dose CT cOmPared to Lung UltraSonography vs standard care for the diagnosis of pneumonia in the elderly – a multicenter randomized controlled study (SNF No. 197398)
- SNSF Project as co-investigators: AI-multi-omics-based Prognostic Stratification of COVID-19 Patients in Acute and Chronic State (SNF No. 198388)
- SNSF Project as co-investigators: DETECT - Dizziness Evaluation Tool for Emergent Clinical Triage (SNF No 173081)
- European Union funding as lead investigators: TeamUp – Understanding and improving team decision-making in uncertain environments (EC No. 894536)
- European Union funding as co-investigators: DIGIPREDICT - Edge A deployed Digital twins for Predicting disease progression and need for early intervention in infectious and cardiovascular diseases beyond COVID-19 (EC No. 101017915)
- European Union funding as co-investigators: Medical First Responder Training using a Mixed Reality Approach featuring haptic feedback for enhanced realism (EC No. 101021775)
- European Union funding as co-investigators: Tools4Teams: Research Training to Design and Implement Tools Supporting Safe Teamwork in Healthcare
- Further external funding from foundations and industry
- Foundational professorship for tele-emergency medicine and e-/m health
- BAG and SEM funded projects in migrant health
- Career funding for young clinical scientists
- Fellowships for two advanced female scientists
