Medical Faculty www.medizin.unibe.ch Annual Report 2019 Contents Foreword ......................................................................................................................................... 7 Highlights .......................................................................................................................................... 8 The Medical Faculty in Numbers ....................................................................................................... 13 Historical Glimpses of the History of the Faculty .............................................................................................. 16 Deans of the Medical Faculty ........................................................................................................... 19 Key people and Institutions Organigram ..................................................................................................................................... 22 Board of Faculty ............................................................................................................................... 23 Institutional Overview ...................................................................................................................... 24 Structural Development of the Inselspital Area ................................................................................. 26 Dean’s Office ................................................................................................................................... 28 Dean’s Office of Student’s Affairs ..................................................................................................... 29 Interview with Bernhard Pulver, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Insel Gruppe AG ............ 30 New Professors at the Medical Faculty .............................................................................................. 34 Teaching School of Human Medicine .............................................................................................................. 40 School of Dental Medicine ............................................................................................................... 42 Local Student Committee of Bernese Medical Students .................................................................... 44 Start of studies 2019: „Firsties“ are coming! .................................................................................... 47 Teacher of the Year 2018: Stefan Kuchen ......................................................................................... 48 New Auditorium Alhambra .............................................................................................................. 49 New Medicine Library ...................................................................................................................... 50 Bachelor and Master Program in Pharmacy ...................................................................................... 52 Master Program in Biomedical Sciences ............................................................................................ 54 Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering .................................................................................... 56 Promotion of young academics sitem-insel School for Translation and Entrepreneurship in Medicine ................................................ 60 CAS, DAS and MAS Degree Programs .............................................................................................. 62 PhD Education ................................................................................................................................. 64 Grants ............................................................................................................................................. 66 Commission for Equality .................................................................................................................. 68 3 Centers and Platforms Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery .................................................................................. 146 ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research ...................................................................... 72 Department of General Internal Medicine ..................................................................................... 148 Bern Center for Precision Medicine (BCPM) ...................................................................................... 74 Department of Geriatrics ................................................................................................................ 150 Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR) ................................................................................... 76 Department of Hematology and Central Hematology Laboratory ................................................... 152 Microscopy Imaging Center (MIC) .................................................................................................... 78 Department of Infectious Diseases ................................................................................................. 154 Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine (sitem-insel) ....................................... 80 Department of Intensive Care Medicine ......................................................................................... 156 University Cancer Center (UCI) ......................................................................................................... 84 Department of Medical Oncology .................................................................................................. 158 University Neurocenter ..................................................................................................................... 86 Department of Nephrology and Hypertension ................................................................................ 160 Clinical Trial Unit Bern (CTU) ............................................................................................................ 88 Department of Neurology .............................................................................................................. 162 Department of Neurosurgery ......................................................................................................... 164 Institute at the University of Bern Department of Nuclear Medicine ................................................................................................... 166 Institute of Anatomy ........................................................................................................................ 92 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ..................................................................................... 168 Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine (IBMM) ................................................................ 94 Department of Ophthalmology ...................................................................................................... 170 Institute for the History of Medicine (IMG) ....................................................................................... 96 Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology.................................................................... 172 Institute of Pharmacology (PKI) ......................................................................................................... 98 Department of Osteoporosis .......................................................................................................... 174 Institute of Physiology .................................................................................................................... 100 Department of Pediatrics ................................................................................................................ 176 Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) .......................................................................... 102 Department of Pediatric Surgery .................................................................................................... 178 Theodor Kocher Institute (TKI) ........................................................................................................ 104 Department for Plastic and Hand Surgery ....................................................................................... 180 Institute for Infectious Diseases (IFIK) .............................................................................................. 106 Department for Pulmonary Medicine .............................................................................................. 182 Institute of Pathology ..................................................................................................................... 108 Department of Radiation Oncology ................................................................................................ 184 Institute of Forensic Medicine (IRM) ................................................................................................ 110 Department of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergology (RIA).................................................. 186 Institute of Dental Medicine (ZMK) ................................................................................................. 112 Department of Thoracic Surgery ..................................................................................................... 188 Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM)