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Juerg Schwitter, MD

Full Professor
University Hospital and University of Lausanne
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Since the mid-nineties, my interest focus on CMR, both with regard to clinical application of CMR and research. After a fellowship in the United States at UC San Francisco in 1995-1997, I launched a CMR clinical service at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. In the early 2000, I could lead some large multicenter trials on perfusion-CMR pathing the way with other large studies to its clinical implementation. My research then focused also on cost-effectiveness of perfusion-CMR and as a founding member of the European CMR registry, we could start to evaluate the performance of CMR in a large multinational setting. In this period, I started to support CMR also by activities in many societies, e.g. by chairing the working group CMR of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), by memberships in many ESC committees, and also as board member of the SCMR and the Swiss Society of Cardiology. In 2009, in a joint cardiology–radiology initiative, we launched the CMR center at the University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland. Since then, our CMR center is also collaborating successfully with Prof. Stuber's reserach group. My research interests also focus on novel CMR applications such as hyperpolarized 13C-Carbon-CMR to study myocardial metabolism in real-time or on 19F-Fluorine-CMR for visualisation of macrophages and cell tracking. In 2017, I co-founded the Derivate-Registry for clinical research unifying European and US centers. While the diagnostic potential of CMR is breath-taking, this technique is not purely diagnostic – as its combination with novel catheter technology and innovative MR machines now allows for interventions in the X-ray free MR environment. I am proud to announce that a new interventional CMR Center started end of 2024 at the Lausanne University Hospital fully dedicated to research. People interested in interventional CMR research and in CMR formation are welcome to contact me.

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