Andrea De Gottardi B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D

Dr. Andrea De Gottardi is a consultant hepatologist (leitender Arzt) at the Inselspital University Hospital in Berne, Switzerland. He studied human medicine at the University of Lausanne and Heidelberg and graduated in 1994. After a residency in internal medicine and a PhD in the University of Berne, he moved to Geneva, where he specialized in gastroenterology and hepatology under the direction of Professor Antoine Hadengue. Later, as a recipient of a Sheila Sherlock post-doc award from the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), he joined the research group of the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona where he worked 2 years under the supervision of Professor Jaime Bosch, focussing on the complications of portal hypertension. He is currently sharing his activity in the laboratory and in the hospital. With the support of the Swiss Science National Foundation he leads a research group working on the effects of the intestinal bacterial flora on portal pressure. As a clinician he coordinates a multicentre project on vascular diseases of the liver and participates as a co-investigator in several international studies. His teaching activities include the supervision of doctoral students and courses at the medical school and in the master in biomedical sciences of the University of Berne.
,br/> He is member of the editorial board and reviewer of several international scientific journals.