Prof. Dr. med. F. Duru

Firat Duru, MD, attended the Hacettepe medical school in Ankara, Turkey from 1984 to 1990. Prof. Duru performed his post-graduate training at the Ataturk Hospital, Ankara, S. Ersek Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery Center, Istanbul and Good Samaritan Hospital / Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore with the qualification as board certified internist and cardiologist in 1996. He underwent a specialized training program in interventional electrophysiology, catheter ablations, pacemaker and cardioverter-defibrillator implantations at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, S. Ersek Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery Center, Istanbul, University Hospital, Zurich and Herzzentrum Leipzig, Germany from 1994-2000. Since 2005 he is Director of the Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Division, Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital, Zurich. His research interests focus on radiofrequency ablations and magnetic resonance compatible pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. He is associate editor of the European Heart Journal, reviewer of numerous cardiology journals and member of different national and international cardiology societies.

Prof. Dr. med. C. Brunckhorst

Corinna Brunckhorst, MD, attended the medical schools in Germany, Capetown, Harvard and San Diego. Dr. Brunckhorst performed her post-graduate training at the Free University Berlin and German Heart Center in Berlin with the qualification as board certified internist and cardiologist. She underwent a specialized training program in interventional electrophysiology, catheter ablations, pacemaker and cardioverter-defibrillator implantations at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA from 1997-2000. Dr. Brunckhorst was appointed as lecturer in cardiology and pulmonary medicine at Harvard Medical School. Since 2007 Dr. Brunckhorst is co-director of electrophysiology at the Cardiovascular Division of the University Hospital Zurich. Her research interests focus on radiofrequency ablations, pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. She is associate editor of the European Heart Journal, rewiever of numerous cardiology journals and member of different national und international cardiology societies.

Dr. med. Ardan Saguner

From 2011-2014 he received clinical/research training in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies, interventional electrophysiology and cardiac rhythm device management at the University Hospital Zurich. In 2014 he was awarded the Advanced Clinical Electrophysiology Training Award by the European Heart Rhythm Association enabling him to train at the Asklepios Clinic St. Georg, Hamburg. Since 2016 he is consultant in the division of electrophysiology and cardiac devices at the University Hospital Zurich, and leading the clinical and research arrhythmic cardiomyopathy/channelopathy program. He is reviewer for numerous peer-reviewed cardiology journals, and a member of the Swiss Cardiology Society and Swiss Working Group of Pacing and Electrophysiology.

Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Argelia Medeiros-Domingo

Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist from the National Institute of Cardiology “Ignacio Chavez” in Mexico City. She completed with honours a PhD in Biomedical Sciences and 5 years of postdoctoral training at the Windland Smith Rice, Sudden Genomics Laboratory at the Mayo clinic under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael Ackerman. Her research focuses on the genetic basis of sudden cardiac death and in the last 5 years she described the long QT syndrome type 10 gene (SCN4B) and participated in the discovery of the genes causing long QT syndrome type 11 (SNTA1) and 2 novel genes causing Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation (SCN3B and KCNJ8).

Deniz Akdis, MD

Deniz Akdis finished High School in 2008. Her Matura research paper Development of a method to demonstrate allergen-specific B-cells won the first Prize of Swiss Young Researchers where she could partiticate at the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar (SIYSS) including the attendance of the Nobel Prize Ceremony. 2008-2014 medical Student University of Zurich with clinical interships in St. Thomas Hospital, GB, Charite Universitätsmedizin, DE, University Hospital Messina, IT. Since 2015 Clinical and Research fellow ARVC Program Zurich, University Hospital Zurich. Since 2016 physician in training, dept. of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Zurich.

Dr. Gülan Utku

Dr. Gülan Utku has been working on biomedical fluid dynamics since 2008. He received his PhD at ETH Zürich in 2012. Prior to that, he received his master and bachelor degrees in Mechanical Engineering in Turkey in 2004 and 2007 respectively. His research focuses on turbulence, biomedical flows and optical measurement techniques. Dr. Gülan received the ETH Medal in 2012, an honor awarded to the 1% best theses in every year. He has also been awarded the Young Investigator Award of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2011. Since 2015, he is a member of ARVCD team at USZ.

Further members of the ARVC team

Rhythmology
PD Dr. med. L. Haegeli; PD Dr. med. T. Wolber
Dr. med. N. Krasniqi; PD Dr. med. J. Steffel

Echocardiography
Prof. Dr. med. Dipl. Ing. R. Jenni; Prof. Dr. med. F. Tanner
Dr. med. P. Biaggi

Nuclear Cardiology
Prof. Dr. med. P. Kaufmann

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Dr. med. R. Manka

Sports Cardiology
Dr. med. C. Schmied

Cardiomyopathies
Dr. med. C. Gruner

Forensic Cardiovascular Medicine
Dr. med. C. Bartsch