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Pascal Juillerat

Pascal Juillerat MD, MSc

Gastroenterology
Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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Pascal Juillerat is a private lecturer (privat-docent) and senior attending Physician of Gastroenterology at the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland. He first studied Biology (a half-degree course) and then medicine at the universities of Neuchâtel, Basle, and Lausanne, Switzerland, and obtained the Swiss Federal Diploma in Medicine in 2000. He did a medical thesis on the prevalence of inflammatory bowel diseases in the Canton of Vaud.

Pascal Juiller's clinical medical studies and clinical specialty training in Gastroenterology were in Lausanne and Geneva (Gastroenterologist degree 2008). Then after having passed the USMLE step 1 and step 2 CK and Step 2 CS, he moved to Boston (Massachusetts, US) to develop his research and clinical skills. In the first year, he pursued epidemiologic training with the "summer Program in Clinical Effectiveness (PCE)". And achieve a Master in Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health (2009-2010). During the second year, he enhanced his clinical skills during an "Advanced clinical Fellowship in Inflammatory Bowel Disease" at Massachusetts General Hospital (2010-2011). In the summer of 2011, he decided to come back to Switzerland and work as a clinician (attending physician) for general gastroenterology as well as in and outpatient care for Inflammatory bowel disease.

Pascal Juiller's research in collaboration with Professor Macpherson’s lab. is mostly based on translational research projects on the microbiome and cellular markers of response to IBD therapy, as well as an epidemiological project with the Swiss IBD cohort study as a mentor for medical theses of the gastroenterology medical fellows. He has regular teaching activities at Bern Medical school (7 courses each year since 2012 from 3rd to 6th year of medicine), as well as his role as a senior attending gastroenterologist.
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