Edouard Battegay

Edouard Battegay is Professor of Internal Medicine, Head of the Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Battegay studied Medicine in Basel with stays in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Montreal, Canada. After graduation in 1982 he trained in Internal Medicine in Basel. Between 1988 and 1991 Dr. Battegay worked at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, in the Laboratory of Dr. Russell Ross and the Lipid Clinics of Dr. Alan Chait and Dr. John Brunzell at the Pacific Medical Center.
In 1992 Dr. Battegay became a Research and Clinical Associate at the Departments of Research and Internal Medicine of the University Hospital Basel. In 1997 he was appointed to head the Hypertension Clinic and became an Assistant Professor at the University of Basel in 1998. In 2003 he was promoted to Associate Professor. In 2005 he was elected as the Head of Ambulatory Internal Medicine and became a full Professor in Internal Medicine. In 2007 Dr. Battegay was elected to his current position in Zurich.
Dr. Battegay’s research focuses on angiogenesis, hypertension, medical decision making, and other issues in General Internal Medicine. Recently, Dr. Battegay has founded an interdisciplinary research and teaching network on Multimorbidity . He is the editor of important textbooks (Hypertension; Principles and Practice, Francis and Taylor, 2005 and Siegenthalers Differenzialdiagnose, Thieme Verlag, 2012). Edouard Battegay has been active as a chairperson in Swiss Guideline committees on cardiovascular prevention and has played an important role in developing educational materials for physicians in Internal Medicine. He is a recognized authority in General Internal Medicine and on issues of health care, interphasing and teaching aspects of strategic and operational leadership in institutions of health care and in healthcare in general.