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President - Cornel Christian Sieber
Curriculum Vitae
Name: Cornel Christian Sieber
Education:
1966-1970 Elementary School in Basle
1970-1978 Grammar School in Basle
1978 Graduated at the Humanistic Gymnasium in Basle
1978-1984 Medical School at the University of Basle
(courses abroad in Vienna and London)
1984 Graduated physician
1985-1999 Specialization in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Geriatric Medicine (University Basle and Hammersmith Hospital London)
1990 Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates examinations of the United States (FMGEMS examination)
1990-1992 Post Doc at Yale University, United States
Clinical and academic/faculty positions:
1985 M.D. thesis University Basle
1995 Medical Faculty, University of Basel (PhD)
1999 Medical Faculty, University of Geneva
2001 – 2013 Head of Department of Internal Medicine 2 (Geriatrics) at the Klinikum Nuremberg (Germany)
2013 - 2019 Head of Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the “Barmherzige Brüder” (St. John of Lord) Hospital, Regensburg (Germany)
2001 - today Full Professor (tenure) for Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg, Director Institute for Biomedicine of Aging Nuremberg (Germany)
2019 - today Director Department of Internal Medicine Kantonsspital Winterthur (Switzerland)
Memberships:
German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM) (President 2017-2018)
Swiss Association for Internal Medicine (SGAIM)
German Society of Geriatrics (DGG) (2005-2008 President)
German Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (DGGG)
Swiss Association for Geriatrics (SGG)
Austrian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology (ÖGGG)
European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS) (Executive Board member)
German Society of Nutritional Medicine (DGEM) (President 2010-2012)
European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ESPEN)
Optimal Nutritional Care for All (ONCA) (Council Member and Trustee)
European Academy for Medicine of Ageing (EAMA) (President 2007-2015)
German Society of Palliative Medicine (DGP)
Interdisciplinary Center for Gerontology at FAU (Vice President)
Societa Italiana di Gerontologia e Geriatria (SIGG) (Honorary member)
National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Germany): Commission “Demographic Change”
Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMW) (Corresponding Member)
World Health Organization (WHO) member of the “Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing” (CCHA)
Professor Dr. med. Cornel Christian Sieber Nuremberg, July 2019