Bernard Burnand was trained as a general internist in Switzerland and received additional training in classical and clinical epidemiology at Yale University, U.S.A. He is currently Head of the Health care evaluation Unit, Institute of social and preventive medicine, at the University of Lausanne, as well as Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Centre at the Hospices / CHUV. Bernard Burnand is involved in several national and international R & D projects regarding the methodological aspects of the development, the evaluation and the implementation of appropriateness criteria, clinical practice guidelines and evidence based health care approaches. He has also be involved in R & D activities dealing with the issues of over- and underuse of medical care, as well as with the development of quality of care indicators. Beyond R & D activities, Bernard Burnand is also involved in teaching activities (clinical epidemiology, health services research, evidence-based health care) and in service activities at the local, national and international level (he is for instance coordinating the efforts aimed at developing a Francophone Cochrane Network in the framework of the Cochrane Collaboration).
Address
| telephone + 41 21 314 72 55 telefax + 41 21 314 49 54 |
e-mail : Bernard.Burnand@hospvd.ch http:// www.iumsp.ch http://www.hospvd.ch/cepic |
Private Address : Grangette 21, 1010 Lausanne (tel. + 41 21 652 17 25)
Personalia
Position
| Chief Physician | Institute of social and preventive medicine (IUMSP), Hospices/CHUV and University of Lausanne |
| Head | Health Care Evaluation Unit, IUMSP |
| Director | CepiC (Clinical Epidemiology Centre, Hospices/CHUV) |
| Associate Professor | Faculty of Medicine, University of Lausanne |
Training - Diplomas
| 1998 | FMH board, Prevention and Public Health |
| 1989 | MPH, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA |
| 1988 | FMH board, Internal medicine |
| 1981 | MD, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1978 | Swiss federal diploma of Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |
Professional experience
| 1989-present | Institute of social and preventive medicine, University of Lausanne |
| 1987-89 |
Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. |
| 1985-87 | Institute of social and preventive medicine, University of Lausanne |
| 1984-85 | Outpatient Medical Clinic, University of Lausanne |
| 1982-84 | Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne |
| 1981-82 | Service of Medicine, Hospital of Payerne |
| 1978-81 | Institute of Physiology, University of Lausanne |
Professional organisations and societies
Committees (current)
