Brunello Wüthrich

Brunello Wüthrich (born June 21, 1938 in Sorengo b. Lugano , Ticino ) is a Swiss specialist FMH for dermatology and venereology , FMH specialist for allergology and immunology . He is an Associate Professor emeritus from the Medical Faculty of Zurich on June 30, 2003 with limited teaching duties for dermatology, with special emphasis on allergology. Until his retirement he was head of the allergy ward at the University Hospital Zurich .

Life

After graduating from Lugano in 1956, Wüthrich studied in Zurich from 1956 to 1963 with a semester abroad in Paris. From 1963 to 1964 he worked as an assistant doctor in the medical department of the Lugano City Hospital and from January 3, 1965 to June 30, 2003 at the Dermatological University Clinic in Zurich as an assistant doctor, senior doctor and from 1975 as the chief doctor of the allergy ward. He completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich in 1975, where he lectured and worked scientifically as an associate professor for dermatology with special emphasis on allergology from 1985 to 2003. After his retirement from the USZ , Wüthrich ran a consultative allergological practice at the Zollikerberg Hospital until summer 2009 and worked half a day a week at the USZ until October 2007, where he supervised the “Experimental Allergology” group led by Thomas Kündig.

Publications (selection)

Wüthrich has written more than 1,100 publications, including more than 600 peer-reviewed original scientific papers and 2 monographs , published 7 specialist books and directed 72 inaugural dissertations and diploma theses at the university and at the ETH . His scientific work focused on neurodermatitis (atopic dermatitis), epidemiology of allergic diseases, food allergies , allergen-specific immunotherapy and hereditary angioedema .

Books

• Wüthrich B. On the immunopathology of the constitutional neurodermatitis. Publisher Hans Huber, Bern Stuttgart Vienna 1975.
• Wüthrich B. (Ed.) Food and Allergy . Dustri Verlag Dr. Karl Feistle, Munich-Deisenhofen 1996.
• Wüthrich B. (Ed.) Food and Allergy 2 . Dustri Verlag Dr. Karl Feistle, Munich-Deisenhofen 2002.
• Wüthrich B. (Ed.) The Atopy Syndrome in the Third Millennium. Curr Probl Dermacol. Basel, Karger, vol 28, 1999. doi: 10.1159 / 000060596
• Wüthrich B., Th.Werfel (Ed.) Food and Allergy 3 . Dustri Verlag Dr. Karl Feistle, Munich-Dweisehofen 2010
• Wüthrich B., C. Ortolani (Eds.) Highlights of Food Allergy . Monogr Allergy, Basel, Karger, Vol 32, pp. 226-227, 1996
• Jäger L, Wüthrich B., Ballmer-Weber B., Vieths S. (Eds.) Food allergies and intolerances . Immunology - Diagnostics - Therapy - Prophylaxis. 3. Edition. Elsevier GmbH, Munich, Urban & Fischer 2008.

Special issues

Special issue of the informed doctor - March 2015 www.medinfo-verlag.ch

Wüthrich B. POLLEN ALLERGIES - yesterday and today

  - Historical course

  - Epidemiology and environmental influences

  - Prevent and treat

  - Diagnosis and therapy with recombinant allergens

  - Subcutaneous and sublingual immunotherapy

  - Pollinosis of the child

  - The case from practice: pollen-related allergic rhinitis

Special edition DERMATOLOGIE PRAXIS 2018

  - Memories of an allergist

  - The special case

  - Anniversary issue for the 80th birthday of Prof. Brunello Wüthrich June 21, 2018

Membership in boards of scientific societies (selection)

• Member of the specialist commission of the Swiss Society for Allergology and Immunology (SGAI) 1975–2003, Vice President 1992–98, President 1999–2001
• Member of the board of the Swiss Society for Allergology and Immunology 1980–2002, 1984–1986 as President and 1996–2001 as Treasurer
• President of the dermato-allergological commission of the Swiss Society for Dermatology (SGDV) 1994–1998
• Member of the board of the Foundation for Allergy Research in Europe (FARE) 1985–2005, Vice-President 1994–97, President 1998–2001
• Founding member of the Swiss Working Group for Aerobiology (SAA) 1993, President 1993
• Founding member of the Swiss Society for Aerobiology (SGA) 1994, President 1994–1996
• Member of the Executive Committee of the European Academy for Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) 1986–91, Vice President 1989–1991, and again Treasurer from 1995–2001
• Board member of the Subcommittee on Adverse Reactions to Food of the EAACI 1991–2001 and member of the Steering Committee on Ethics of the EAACI 2001–2003
• SGAI delegate in the Allergy Section of the European Union of Medical Specialists ( UEMS , Bruxelles) 1996 - 2002
• 2006 Founding of the Zurich Society for Allergology (ZGA) and President 2005–2011
• 2009 Foundation of the Società Ticinese degli Allergologi e Immunologi Clinici (STAI)

Awards and honors

• 1988 honorary member of the Hungarian Society for Allergy and Immunology
• 1995 honorary member of the Swiss Society for Allergology and Immunology
• 1998 honorary member of the Swiss Society for Aerobiology
• 1999 honorary member of the Belgian Society for Allergology and Clinical Immunology
• 2002 honorary member of the German Society for Allergology and Clinical Immunology
• 2002 honorary member of the European Academy for Allergology and Clinical Immunology
• 2003 honorary member of the Swiss Society for Dermatology and Venereology
• 2003 Honorary member of the Società Ticinese di Dermatologia (STD)
• 2005 founding member and 1st President of the Zurich Society for Allergology (ZAG)
• 2010 Medal of Honor of the German Society for Allergology and Clinical Immunologies for outstanding services to allergology and clinical immunology and the connections to the DGAKI
• 2010 founding member, honorary member and 1st President of the Società degli Allergologi e Immunologi del Canton del Ticino (STAI)
• 2011 Honorary member of the Zurich Society for Allergology (ZAG)
• 2014 Honorary President of the Società degli Allergologi e Immunologi clinici ticinesi (STAI)

Foundation of prizes and foundations

• 2003 Foundation of an Allergy Poster Prize from the Swiss Society for Allergology and Immunology (SGAI) at CHF 1000 per year
• 1996 Founder of the Swiss Neurodermatitis Foundation (SNS)
• 2011 Fusion of the foundation with the aha! Swiss Allergy Center and transfer of the foundation's capital to the Brunello Wüthrich Neurodermatitis Fund (BWNDF), which was set up to finance services for people with neurodermatitis.

Web links

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brunello_Wuethrich