Professor Juerg Schwitter

Prof. Schwitter is staff cardiologist and the Head of the CMR Center and Head of the Interventional MRI Center of the CHUV and was one of the first in the mid-nineties to use CMR to detect myocardial ischemia and was a leader in introducing this technique into clinics being PI of many large international trials and registries. Prof. Schwitter was in the steering committees of many large international trials that introduced MR-conditional pacemakers and defibrillators into clinics. In 2008, he was a co-founder of the EuroCMR Registry unifying 59 centers from 18 European Countries and in 2017 he was also co-founder of the Derivate Registry unifying 21 centers in Europe and US. Since 2012, Prof. Schwitter pursues hyperpolarized 13C-MRI to study in-vivo real-time metabolism and 19F-fluorine MRI for inflammation imaging. He speaks 4 languages. He published >250 articles, book chapters etc. He was Chairman of the ESC CMR WG and was/is member of many ESC, SCMR, national society committees.