Prof. Dr. med. Daniel Paris, Associate Professor, MD, PhD, DTMH

Function(s)
Medical Director,
Head of Department

Organisational Entity
Medicine

Daniel Paris, MD, PhD, DTMH, is a clinical doctor, Associate Professor and Medical Director and Head of the Department of Medicine at Swiss TPH. His position incorporates the fusion of two predominantly service-oriented departments into a single medical department, with the addition of clinical translational research and diagnostic methodologies. Paris is a Swiss national, clinically trained at the University of Zurich. He spent many years working in clinical research in Southeast Asia for the University of Oxford, based in Bangkok as coordinator of clinical tropical medicine research with a focus on tropical rickettsial illnesses, diagnostics, clinical trials and causes-of-fever studies.

Brummaier T et al. Design of a targeted blood transcriptional panel for monitoring immunological changes accompanying pregnancy. Frontiers in Immunology. 2024;15:1319949. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1319949

Katende A et al. Use of a handheld ultrasonographic device to identify heart failure and pulmonary disease in rural Africa. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(2):e240577. DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.0577

König R.S, Paris D.H, Sollberger M, Tschopp R. Identifying the mental health burden in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) patients in Switzerland: a pilot study. Heliyon. 2024;10(5):e27031. DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27031

Oakley R et al. Seroprevalence of Coxiella burnetii in an indigenous population from the Sierra Nevada De Santa Marta, Colombia. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024;110(1):155-158. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.23-0252

Harju E et al. Changes in healthcare utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic and potential causes : a cohort study from Switzerland. Int J Public Health. 2023;68:1606010. DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2023.1606010

Inthawong M et al. A whole blood intracellular cytokine assay optimised for field site studies demonstrates polyfunctionality of CD4+ T cells in acute scrub typhus. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2023;17(3):e0010905. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010905

Kalinjuma A.V et al. Body mass index trends and its impact of under and overweight on outcome among PLHIV on antiretroviral treatment in rural Tanzania: a prospective cohort study. PLoS One. 2023;18(8):e0290445. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290445

Ndege R et al. Ultrasononography in managing extrapulmonary tuberculosis: a randomized, controlled, parallel, superiority, open-label trial. Clin Infect Dis. 2023;76(6):1013-1021. DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac871

Nooh F et al. Prevalence of fever of unidentified aetiology in East African adolescents and adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Infect Dis Poverty. 2023;12:55. DOI: 10.1186/s40249-023-01105-z

Nooh F, Utzinger J, Paris D.H, Probst-Hensch N, Chernet A. Association of hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease with COVID-19 in Africa: scoping review protocol. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2023;8:293. DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed8060293