Associate Professor Matthias Wilhelm

Matthias Wilhelm is a clinical cardiologist, researcher, and Associate Professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He serves as Medical Director of the Centre for Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine at Inselspital, Bern University Hospital. He completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine and interventional cardiology at the University Hospital of Erlangen, Germany (1999–2007), and led the Division of Electrophysiology from 2008 to 2009. In 2010, he joined Inselspital Bern, where he established his focus on cardiac rehabilitation and sports cardiology. From 2018 to 2022, he served as a board member of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) and chaired its Education Committee. He currently chairs the EAPC's Secondary Prevention & Rehabilitation Section and co-chairs the ESC Guidelines on Cardiac Rehabilitation. His research centres on exercise physiology and digital health technologies in prehabilitation, secondary prevention, and rehabilitation.