Professor Thomas Felix Luescher

Professor Lüscher studied medicine at the University of Zurich and obtained the board certification in internal medicine and cardiology. He trained in cardiovascular research and in cardiology and specifically in echocardiography at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, USA and was later Professor of Pharmaco-therapy at the University of Basel, then Professor of Cardiology at the University of Berne, before assu-ming a position as Professor and Chairman of Cardiology and Director of the University Heart Center at the University Hospital Zurich and Director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is now Director of Research, Education & Development and Consulting Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital Trust and Professor of Cardiology at the Imperial College in London. He is an active general and interventional cardiologist with a broad clinical scope and large experience in prevention, coronary and valvular heart disease.