Ruedi Lüthy

Ruedi Lüthy (actually: Rudolf Lüthy ; born February 17, 1941 ) is a Swiss doctor . In the early 1980s he was one of the first AIDS specialists in Switzerland.

Life

Ruedi Lüthy studied medicine at the University of Zurich , where he also received his doctorate and habilitation . He later founded the Infectious Diseases Department at Zurich University Hospital , which he headed for more than twenty years. He was a co-founder of the Zurich hospice "Lighthouse", which he headed full-time from 1995. At the end of the 1980s, he founded and presided over the Swiss HIV Cohort Study, which contributed significantly to knowledge about HIV and AIDS. He was also President of the Federal Commission on AIDS. Since 1997 he has been honorary professor for internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich.

In 2002, at an AIDS congress, a doctor from Zimbabwe asked him for help with a health study. In 2003 Lüthy traveled to Zimbabwe to set up an outpatient HIV clinic and reference laboratory in Harare . The "Newlands Clinic" has been in operation since March 2004. It is mainly financed by donations in favor of the Ruedi Lüthy Foundation (formerly Swiss Aids Care International ), which Lüthy founded. Since 2009, local doctors and nurses have been trained in the management of HIV in the associated training center. These transfer the knowledge to other clinics across Zimbabwe.

Ruedi Lüthy is married and has three grown children. His daughter Sabine Lüthy has been Managing Director of the Ruedi Lüthy Foundation since 2012.

Fonts (selection)

Rudolf Lüthy: Investigation of serum lipids in normal persons and patients with essential hypertension taking into account the carbohydrate metabolism. Hallwag, Bern 1969 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1969).
Ruedi Lüthy, Jürg Blaser, Antonio Bonetti, Hanspeter Simmen, Richard Wise, Walter Siegenthaler : Comparative multiple-dose pharmacokinetics of cefotaxime, moxalactam, and ceftazidime. In: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Vol. 20, H. 5, November 1981, pp. 567-575 ( PMC 181752 (free full text); habilitation thesis, University of Zurich, 1981).

literature

Beat Schläpfer: A gift of life: Prof. Dr. Ruedi Lüthy's initiative against the AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe. Werd, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-85932-528-0 .

Awards

2003: Honorary doctorate from the University of Bern
2004: SwissAward in the Society category
2007: European of the Year , Reader's Digest magazine
2015: Doron Prize
2015: Prize of the Paradies Foundation for social innovation

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Sunday newspaper . January 11, 2009.

personal data
SURNAME	Lüthy, Ruedi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lüthy, Rudolf (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss physician and AIDS pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 17, 1941

[1] Sunday newspaper . January 11, 2009.