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Professor Philippe Meyer graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva in 2000. He obtained postgraduate qualifications in Sports Medicine (2005), Internal Medicine (2007) and Cardiology (2011). He completed a CAS in Clinical Research in 2007 and undertook a clinical and research fellowship at the Montreal Heart Institute (2007–2009). In 2013 he became Privat-Docent and later Associate Professor. Since 2017, he has been Associate Senior Physician and Head of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit at Geneva University Hospitals. His clinical expertise includes heart failure, cardiac rehabilitation, cardiovascular prevention, sports cardiology and echocardiography. He is Chair of the Heart Failure Working Group of the Swiss Society of Cardiology and a member of major European cardiology associations. His research focuses on heart failure and sports cardiology.
Head of Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit, HUG
Chair, Heart Failure Working Group – Swiss Society of Cardiology
Member: Heart Failure Association, European Association of Preventive Cardiology, European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
Clinical and research fellowships (Switzerland, Canada)
Teaching and supervision in cardiology and medicine
Digoxin and reduction of heart failure hospitalization – Am J Cardiol (2008)
Elevated jugular venous pressure and outcomes – Am J Cardiol (2009)
Extreme cold and ischemic threshold – Can J Cardiol (2010)
Workplace stair use and cardioprotection – Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil (2010)
RV ejection fraction and outcomes – Circulation (2010)
High-intensity interval exercise in CHF – J Card Fail (2012)
Bioelectrical impedance in ICD patients – JPEN (2017)
ECG in elite cyclists – J Sci Med Sport (2019)
