Newly elected RESC members bring valuable expertise to ETH Zurich’s Rehabilitation Initiative
RESC is pleased to welcome Florian Brunner, Roman Gonzenbach and Carsten Möller as newly elected members.
Florian Brunner MD, PhD is head of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rheumatology at Balgrist University Hospital and Professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is a board-certified specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, having received training in rheumatology, orthopedics, neurology and internal medicine. After completing the residency program, he completed a research fellowship at Occupational and Industrial Orthopaedic Center (OIOC), Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute, Program of Ergonomics and Biomechanics New York University, in New York. His clinical interests include Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, spine conditions and manual medicine. The focus of his clinical and translational research activities is on Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and lumbar back pain.
Roman Gonzenbach MD, PhD (Dr. med. Dr. sc. nat.) studied medicine at the University of Zurich and graduated in 2004. After that, he completed the Swiss MD-PhD programme with Prof. Martin E. Schwab, also at the University of Zurich. He completed a PhD in Natural Sciences in 2008 on the research topic: 'Compensatory Axon Growth and Plasticity in the Injured Adult Nervous System' and a PhD in Medicine in 2010 on the research topic: 'Anti-LINGO-1 antibodies improve tract regeneration and sensorimotor recovery after spinal cord injury in adult rats'. Following his time as an assistant physician in internal medicine and neurology, he obtained the specialist title FMH Neurology in 2015 and worked as (deputy) Senior Physician in Männedorf and Zurich. In 2015, he started as Senior Physician Neurology at the Valens Rehab Centre. Since 2017 he has been Head of Department of Neurology at the Valens Rehab Center and since 2018 he has also been Medical Co-Director of the Valens Clinics.
Carsten Möller studied medicine in Aachen (GER). Subsequently, he performed internships at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry (now: Neurobiology) in Martinsried (GER) and the Dept of Neurology at the University Hospital Großhadern in Munich. Then he worked as a Post-Doc at the Dept of Neurobiology at Stanford University before returning to Germany and finishing his residency in Neurology at the University Hospital in Marburg (GER). In 2010 he moved to Switzerland and worked as a senior consultant at the Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland in Lugano. Currently, he is deputy head physician at the Center for Neurological Rehabilitation in Zihlschlacht and Head of the Center for Movement Disorders and Parkinson at Klinik Hirslanden Zurich. He holds an extraordinary professorship at Philipps-University Marburg.
The multidisciplinary expertise of the newly elected members is an asset to ETH Zurich’s Rehabilitation Initiative.
The Rehab Initiative’s mission is to improve the quality of life and participation of people with physical disabilities; thus contributing towards a more inclusive society. With its Competence Centre RESC, which is a nexus of expertise from academia, hospitals, industry, government, healthcare, disability organisations and other NPOs, it promotes exchange, interdisciplinary research projects, innovative education programmes, and knowledge transfer.
Biographies
external page Roman Gonzenbach
external page Carsten Möller at Hirslanden, external page Rehaklinik Zihlschlacht