Education: - State diploma in medicine. - Intern, cardiac surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, research fellow, Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Homburg/Saar, and the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Technical University, Munich. - Resident and chief resident, Medizinische Klinik I, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany. - Board certification in internal medicine and cardiology. - Senior consultant for heart failure and heart transplantation, Klinik für Kardiologie, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland. - Habilitation in cardiology. - Executive master's in business administration, PHW Bern. - Associate professor of severe heart failure, ventricular-assisted device program, and heart transplantation---Service de Cardiologie, Département Coeur-Vaisseaux, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland. - ESC-certified master's in heart failure. Professional and academic experience: - Senior lecturer (PD-MER1) in cardiology, UNIL, and CHUV senior lecturer, Zürich Heart House. - Senior lecturer for postgraduate heart failure course, London; senior lecturer, Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud. - Member of the Scientific Committee of the Schweizerische Herzstiftung. - Associate member of the Human Medical Experts Committee of SWISSMEDIC (as of 2016). Ordinary member of the Human Medical Experts Committee of SWISSMEDIC (as of 2021).