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Urs Eichenberger
Prof. Dr. med.

Urs Eichenberger

Head of Anaesthesiology
Languages
German, English, French
Honors and awards Academic career Postgraduate Member of the Board Grants Memberships Reviewer and editorial board activities

Honors and awards

2013Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern: award for supervising the dissertation in second place ‘Placement of coiled catheters into the paravertebral space’
2009Swiss Society of Anaesthetics and Resuscitation (SGAR) Annual Congress: research prize for the work on ‘Ultrasound-guided, selective block of the ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerves: a volunteer study’
2003Swiss Society of Anaesthetics and Resuscitation (SGAR) Annual Congress: First prize for the best presentation, entitled ‘The 3rd occipital nerve can be visualized by ultrasound: prospective for developing a new method for the diagnosis of C2-3 zygapophysial joint pain’

Academic career

2009Privatdozent [assistant professor] in Anaesthetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern
2004Visiting research and clinical work at the Medical University of Vienna (ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia and interventional pain management)
1997Doctorate, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern (high altitude medicine)
1991State final examinations, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern
1984–1991Studied Medicine, Universities of Freiburg and Bern

Postgraduate

Senior Consultant, Anaesthesia

  • Since September 2016, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich

Head of Department 2011 – 2016

  • Department of Anaesthetics, Intensive Care Medicine, and Pain Management, St Anna Clinic, Hirslanden Group, Lucerne

Lead Consultant in Anaesthetics 2009 – 2011

  • Responsible for anaesthesia for surgery of the musculoskeletal system, head of medical human resources department and operating theatre coordinator at the Interdisciplinary Emergency Centre (INO), Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine 2000 – 2009

  • Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern • Clinical Department of Anaesthesia and General Intensive Care Medicine B, Vienna City Hospital, University of Vienna

Specialty Trainee 1992 - 2000

  • General Internal Medicine (17 months), Cantonal Hospital, Wolhusen
  • Surgery (16 months), Cantonal Hospital, Wolhusen
  • Diagnostic Radiology (12 months), Inselspital, University of Bern
  • Anaesthetics (44 months), Inselspital, University of Bern

Member of the Board

  • Member of the Board, Member of the Congress Committee and of the Pain Commission of the Swiss Society of Anaesthetics and Resuscitation (SGAR)
  • Member of the Board of the ICAN [APICE] section of the Swiss Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (SGUM)
  • Founding Member and Member of the Board (until 2014) of the Swiss Association of Regional Anaesthesia (SARA)
  • Member of the Board of the Society of Doctors affiliated to the St Anna Clinic, Lucerne (GAL) 2012 - 2016

Grants

  • 2014 Vetsuisse, Faculty of Veterinary Surgery, University of Bern (PhD project of Dr Helene Rohrbach, veterinary surgeon)
  • 2011 - 2015 3R Research Foundation Project No 122/10 (PhD project of Dr Helene Rohrbach, veterinary surgeon)
  • 2011 SonoSite and Siemens Schweiz AG, unrestricted research grant
  • 2006 - 2007 Research grant from the Swiss Society of Anaesthetics and Resuscitation (SGAR)
  • 1989 – 1996 Contributed to generating funding for high altitude medicine studies (NF 32-33729.92; NF 3200-40710.94; NF 3200-045453.95; DFG Ba 1368/2-1)

Memberships

  • Member of the Continuing Professional Development Committee of the Swiss Society for Interventional Pain Management (SSIPM)
  • European Society for Regional Anaesthesia (ESRA)
  • European Society for Anaesthesia (ESA)
  • Bern Association of Anaesthetists (VBA)
  • Vice President, Member of the Foundation Board and of the Investment Committee of the Pension Fund (VSAO) (since 1997)

Reviewer and editorial board activities

Reviewer

  • Clinical Journal of Pain
  • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
  • Anesthesia & Analgesia
  • Pain Medicine
  • Clinical Journal of Pharmacology
  • Anesthesiology Journal for Clinical Anatomy
  • European Journal of Anaesthesiology
  • Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine

Appointments

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Secretariat
Claudia Gasser
+41 44 386 38 32
+41 44 386 38 39
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