Blaise Genton
- Phone: +41 61 284 83 42
- Fax: +41 61 284 81 01
- Email: Blaise.genton@hospvd.ch
- Profession: Physician, specialist FMH in tropical and travel medicine
- Position: Project Leader, Groupleader
- Department/Unit:
Professional Activities
- Professor and Head of the travel clinic, consultant of tropical and travel medicine, Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine – Infectious Disease Service, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland (50% position)
- Clinical epidemiologist, project leader in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland (50% position)
Main interest: Interventions to improve the management of malaria and fever in general
Higher Education & Qualifications
Academic titles:
- 2010 Full professor, Tropical/Travel Medicine, University of Lausanne
- 1999 Privat-docent, Tropical/Travel Medicine, University of Lausanne
- 1997 PhD Epidemiology, University of Basel
- 1991 MSc Clinical Tropical Medicine, University of London
- 1988 Doctorate Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professional titles:
- 2003 International Society Travel Medicine Certificate in Travel HealthTM
- 1997 Federatio Medicus Helvaeticorum: FMH Specialist in Tropical Medicine
- 1991 Royal college of Physicians: Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- 1990 Federatio Medicus Helvaeticorum: FMH Specialist in Internal Medicine