Dr. Peter Burckhardt, M.D.

Overview

Dr. Burckhardt has been a member of the Board of Directors since 1996. He qualifies as an independent Non-Executive Director. He is a member of the Audit and Compliance Committee. Other activities. From 1982 to 2004, Dr. Burckhardt was Chairman of the Novartis (formerly Sandoz) Foundation for Biomedical Research in Switzerland. Since 1990, he has been the organizer and Chairman of the International Symposia on Nutrition and Osteoporosis. Since 2008, he is chief editor of the scientific review 'Osteology.' Professional background. Dr. Burckhardt is a Professor of Medicine. He has an M.D. from the University of Basel and is a trained internal medicine and endocrinology specialist from the University of Lausanne and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Dr. Burckhardt has been Head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital of Lausanne from 1982 to 1989 and Chief of Medical Services at the same hospital from 1988 to 2004. In addition to his clinical activities, Dr. Burckhardt conducts clinical research, mainly in bone diseases and calcium metabolism. He has authored more than 300 scientific publications and is an editorial board member of several international scientific journals. He was president of the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine and a member of the Appeal Committee of Switzerland's National Agency for Drug Controls. He was Chairman of the country affiliates and a member of the executive committee of the International Foundation for Osteoporosis and served as treasurer of the foundation until 2006. Other experiences include board memberships in the Swiss Societies of Nutrition, Clinical Chemistry, Endocrinology, Bone and Mineral Research, the Committee for Endocrinology of the European Community and advisory roles to scientific foundations in Switzerland and Germany.