Prof. Antoine GEISSBUHLER
Dean
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Full Professor
Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
Director of Teaching and Research, HUG
Head of the Division of e-Health and Telemedicine, HUG
Antoine Geissbühler is an internist and specialist in medical informatics. A full professor since 2006, he is also Director of the HUG Innovation Centre and Head of the Division of e-Health and Telemedicine, which has been designed as a WHO collaborating centre. His research focuses on the design and application of new IT tools in the medical field. In particular, he helped implement Switzerland's e-health strategy and developed the RAFT project, a major telemedicine network linking hundreds of healthcare professionals in 20 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Since 2022, he has also been President of BioAlps, the life sciences cluster for Western Switzerland. Antoine Geissbühler, a former vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and is UNIGE's vice-rector in charge of digital strategy and innovation until July 2023. He becomes Dean of the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine on 15 July 2023.