Prof. Dr. med. Florian Froehlich Abteilung für Gastroenterologie Kantonsspital Basel (Lecturer) CHUV/PMU, University of Lausanne, Lausanne Hospital of the Canton of Jura, Porrentruy and Delémont e-Mail [email protected] Tel. +41 32 466 22 55 Fax +41 32 466 29 55
Education 1986 Graduation Medical School, University of Zurich, Switzerland 1987-1996 Training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology (various district hospitals; University of Lausanne) 1996 Senior Consultant in Gastroenterology, Medical Outpatient Department, University of Lausanne, Switzerland 1997 Appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland 2005 Appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Basle, Switzerland 2009 Appointed Professor at the University of Basle, Switzerland
Scientific background 1994 First coauthor of grant application "Quality control of gastrointestinal endoscopy" funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (No 32.40522.94) 1995 Research fellowship RAND Corporation and UCLA, Los Angeles, USA 1996 Member of the International Consensus Workshop on conscious sedation in endoscopy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1997 First coauthor of grant application “The scientific basis of medical guidelines: The impact of evidence and health care environment on the development, acceptance and utilisation of gastrointestinal endoscopy” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (No. 32.057244.99) 1999 Main coauthor of the first decision tool available on Internet to judge appropriateness of gastrointestinal endoscopy (http://www.epaqe.ch') 2004 Co organizer of the European Panel on Appropriateness of Crohn's disease treatment, Lausanne 2006 Co-investigator of the Swiss National Science Foundation grant "Swiss Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort Study", No SNF 3347C0-108792/1 2006 Swiss IBD Cohort Study SNF project 3347CO-108792: main coauthor and director of the subpart on appropriateness of IBD D care 2011 SNF Project: Appropriateness of care in inflammatory bowel disease⎯a large nested project of theSwiss IBD Cohort. Main coauthor (2011) No 32473B 138498
Awards 1993 Young Researcher Award of the Swiss Society of Gastroenterology 1994 Young Researcher Award of the Swiss Society of Gastroenterology 1997 Novartis Award of the Swiss Society of Gastroenterology 1997 Main Award of the Swiss Society of Gastroenterology 2000 Peter Reizenstein Award for the best paper published in the International Journal of Quality in Health Care 2003 Poster prize Swiss Society of Gastroenterology & Hepatology 2003 Poster prize Swiss Society of Internal Medicine 2006 Prize awarded by the Foundation for Social & Preventive Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lausanne
Research support • Swiss National Science Foundation • Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, Berne • Helmut Horton Foundation, Madonna del Piano • Sandoz Research Foundation, Basle • Biomed II projects (Brussels) • Hoffman La Roche Ltd., Basle
Editorial Boards Since 2005 Member of Editorial Board « ENDOSCOPY »
Regular Reviewer • Endoscopy • Social and Preventive Medicine • Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology • Digestion • European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Memberships • American Gastroenterological Association • American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy • British Society of Gastroenterology • Swiss Society of Internal Medicine • Swiss Society of Ultrasound • Swiss Society of Gastroenterology • European Society of Gastroenterology • American College of Gastroenterology (Fellow) • IBD-net, Switzerland
Main research interest • Appropriateness of care in inflammatory bowel disease • Appropriateness of gastrointestinal endoscopy • Quality and health care management • Safety of gastrointestinal endoscopy • Sedation in GI endoscopy • Bacterial overgrowth • Gallbladder motility
Medicoprofessional activities Vice-president of Gastromed-Suisse 1996-1998 Vice-president of the group for abdominal ultrasound of the Swiss Society of Gastroenterology Board IBD-net Scientific and Executive Committee of the Swiss IBD Cohort Study
Book chapters and reviews • ULKUSALMANACH I + II. Dorta G, Sieber R, Popien J, Froehlich F, Koelz HR, Blum AL: Fallsammlung. Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo 1990, 131-222 • DYSPEPSIEALMANACH. Scalfaro P, Koelz HR, Blum AL, Armstrong D, Berstad A, Bertolini M, Bretholz A, Clavel P, Dorta G, Emde C, Fried M, Froehlich F, Groos B, Guex P, Guyot J, Hogan WJ, Kravarik I, Makowiec F, Miiller-Lissner S, Saraga E, Schnegg JF, Sulser H, Toouli J, Torsoli A. Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1 992 • DIE SEELISCHE VERARBEITUNG LEBENSBEDROHLICHER KRANKHEITEN IM JUGENDALTER. Froehlich F (thesis). Edited by SCHWABE & Cie, Bale, 1986, ISBN 3-7965-0842-1 • ANESTESIA, RIANIMAZIONE ET TERAPIA INTENSIVA. Froehlich F. Conscious sedation in upper and lower Gl endoscopy: risk and benefit. Editions SPRINGER, 1 997, 128-129 • PATIENTENUEBERWACHUNG . Froehlich F, Fried M, Sauerbruch T. in : Leitlinien der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten. Demeter Verlag, Baiingen 1997, 137-142 • COLONOSCOPY: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE. Froehlich F, Gonvers JJ. Diagnostic yield of colonoscopy by indication. Blackwell Publishing 2003. • COLONOSCOPY: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE. Froehlich F, Gonvers JJ. Diagnostic yield of colonoscopy by indication. Blackwell Publishing 2009, 2nd edition
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