RESC welcomes new members

Claudia Galli

external pageClaudia Gallicall_made Hudec, lic phil I, dipl. Occupational Therapist, is Programme Director of the European Master of Science in Occupational Therapy at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (since 2012) and President of the Swiss umbrella association of the professional organizations in healthcare (SVBG) (since 2007). After completing her diploma in occupational therapy, she studied psychology at the University of Zurich and was President of the Swiss Association for Occupational Therapists more than 12 years. In addition to her great expertise in occupational therapy, she is an experienced Program Manager in her role as Director of an international MSc program which has been successfully and repeatedly accredited on an international level. Furthermore, she has nearly 20 years of experience in active and interprofessional politics within the Swiss healthcare system.

Lukas Imbach

external pageLukas Imbachcall_made is Medical Director of the Swiss Epilepsy Center in Zurich and Lecturer at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich and the ETH Zurich. He studied biophysics at ETH Zurich and human medicine at the University of Zurich and is a board-certified Neurologist (FMH) with specialty in epileptology (SGKN) and sleep medicine (SSSSC). His clinical and research focus is the development of new diagnostic and treatment options of epilepsy patients with a special interest on approaches using brain stimulation. His research dwells on the border between clinical research and electrophysiology. It aims at exploring seizure severity with sensor technology and optimizing diagnostic accuracy of conventional and intracranial EEG by computational methods in rare and complex epilepsies.

Bertrand Léger  

external pageBertrand Léger,call_made PhD, graduated from the University of Geneva and completed his PhD at the Department of Physiology of the University of Lausanne in 2008. After a two-year post-doc fellowship at the Centre for Muscle Research in the Department of Physiology of the University of Melbourne, he joined the research team of the Clinique romande de réadaptation (CRR) in Sion. He then completed his training in clinical research at the University of Lausanne. In 2016, he was appointed Head of the Research Department at the CRR and in 2022, Head of Research for the Suva's two rehabilitation clinics (RKB in Bellikon and CCR in Sion). His work focuses on the interactions between the different components of the biopsychosocial model in the field of rehabilitation.

Johannes Scherr  

external pageJohannes Scherrcall_made, MD, PhD is Head of the University Center for Prevention and Sports Medicine at Balgrist University Hospital and Professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich. At Balgrist University Hospital, he is also the Medical Head of the Therapies Division (physiotherapy and occupational therapy). He is a board-certified Specialist in internal medicine, sports medicine, and nutritional medicine (FMH). He received training in cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, sports and preventive medicine, nutritional medicine, emergency and intensive care medicine at the University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Germany and Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University Munich, Germany. He has been responsible for the medical care of top athletes for many years, was Chief Medical Officer of several federations and has already participated 3 times in the Olympics as the doctor in charge. His clinical interests include all facets of modern sports medicine. The focus of his clinical and translational research activities lie on the strengthening of the concept of “Exercise is Medicine“, especially with regard to prehabilitation. Furthermore, his research focuses on the effects of extreme exercise on the cardiovascular and immune system.

Dominik Straumann  

external pageDominik Straumanncall_made, MD, is Professor of Neurology at the University of Zurich. Since 2004, he is heading the Interdisciplinary Center for Vertigo & Neurological Vision Disorders and the Vestibulo-Oculomotor Laboratory at University of Zurich. Dominik Straumann studied medicine in Fribourg and Zurich. As a postdoc, he joined the group of Volker Henn at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich. There he also continued working as a neurology resident and spent one year in the laboratory of David Zee at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, United States of America. A subsequent 5-year SNF grant allowed him to continue his collaboration with David Zee and expand his research in Zurich. Prof. Straumann and his group concentrate their research on ocular motor disorders, psychophysics of graviception and self-motion perception, development of neuro-otological and neuro-ophthalmological tests and pathomechanisms of motion sickness. More recently, Prof. Straumann and co-workers started research in concussion-associated disorders and developed a non-invasive biomechanical model of mild traumatic brain injury in larval zebrafish.