Specialist in thoracic surgery and surgery, member of FMH
Privatklinik Bethanien
Toblerstrasse 61
8044 Zürich
Physician at Privatklinik Bethanien
Visiting Professor, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China
Visiting Professor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA
Medical co-director, USZ
Head of the Lung cancer and thoracic oncology centre, Universitätsspital Zürich
Director, Department for thoracic surgery, Universitätsspital Zürich
Head of the lung transplant programme at USZ
Clinical lead, Abdominal surgery/thoracic surgery, Universitätsspital Zürich
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Thoraxchirurgie (founding president)
Swisstransplant (founding president, lung transplant group, board member)
European Respiratory Society, ERS
International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, IASLC
European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, EACTS
European Society for Thoracic Surgeons, ESTS, Past President
European Society for Medical Oncology, ESMO, Educational Committee
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, STS
American Association for Thoracic Surgery, AATS
International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, ISHLT
International Mesothelioma lnterest Group, lMlG / board member
2004
First mediastinal tumour resection & lobectomy by Da Vinci robot
Since 1995
Multiple studies for extended resection for NSCLC after neoadjuvant therapy
Since 1998
Multiple studies on EPP/PD for mesothelioma after neoadjuvant therapy
1995
First VATS LVRS worldwide, since then more than 1000 surgical interventions
1993
First VATS lobectomy
1992
First lung transplantation in Switzerland, since then more than 500 lung transplantations have been performed
Professor of surgery, specifically thoracic surgery, at the University of Zürich
State doctorate, Privatdozent at the University of Zürich
Specialism in surgery, member of FMH
Research fellowship in Lung Transplantation, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Doctor of Medicine, University of Zürich
State examinations, University of Zürich, degree in Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto and University of Zürich
Full spectrum of thoracic surgery, in particular:
Interview with Prof. Dr. med. Walter Weder