Laurent Nicod

Prof Laurent Nicod obtained his medical degree in 1979 from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He began as an assistant in the Department of Pathology and continued his training in surgery at the Monthey District Hospital, then as an assistant in the Department of Medicine at the CHUV with Prof. Burckhardt. Then moving to the United States , he joined Prof.A.K. Pierce of the Division of Respirology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas. Three years later, he returned to Switzerland in the Pneumology Division of the Geneva at the University Hospital (HUG) under the direction of Prof. Junod. He was quickly appointed Scientific Chief of Clinic, and became few years later, interim manager of the Tuberculosis Center and of the outpatient consultation at the Geneva Medicine Polyclinic, then ad interim manager of the Pneumology Division of the HUG. At the designation of Prof. Rochat in 1997, he remained staff member at the HUG and head of the Anti-Tuberculosis Center and the lung transplant program . In 2003, he moved at the Inselspital in Bern as Director and Chief Physician of the Pneumology Clinic and Policlinic, where he was appointed Full Professor and Head of the Department of Pneumology. His research work further focused on immune mechanisms in lung tissue. In 2008, Prof Laurent Nicod was nominated Head of pneumology at the Cantonal hospital of the university of Vaud (CHUV) in Lausanne where he succeeded to build bridges between the different specialties involved In lung transplantation, in the origin of asthma, in the new treatments of cystic fibrosis , in COPD and lung cancer detection as well as interstitial lung diseases.