Prof. Gerold Stucki, MD

Foto Gerold Stucki

Professor of Health Sciences and Health Policy
Lead Strategic Council Swiss Learning Health System
Co-Director Center for Rehabilitation in Global Health Systems

T +41 41 229 56 30 • Alpenquai 4, Room 12 • gerold.stucki@unilu.ch

CV

Gerold Stucki is Professor  of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine at the University of Lucerne and Director of Swiss Paraplegic Research in Nottwil, Switzerland. He is also the Director of the ICF Research Branch.

He received his medical education at the University of Berne and obtained a Master of Science (MSc.) in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health and a diploma in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from the University of McGill, Montréal, Canada.

During his appointment as Chair of the Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) at the Ludwig-Maximilians University from 1999-2009, Prof. Stucki pursued clinical research in PRM and musculoskeletal medicine, and developed a new research agenda for human functioning and rehabilitation research. His clinical research focused on the development of concepts and programs for multidisciplinary rehabilitation service and care provision in various settings.

Prof. Stucki has been collaborating with the WHO in an international effort to implement the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in rehabilitation and the health sector in general. To facilitate human functioning sciences research, Prof. Stucki initiated the ICF Research Branch (www.icf-research-branch.org) as an international research network under the auspices of the WHO.

Since 2005, he has been assigned the task of developing the Swiss Paraplegic Research (SPF) into a research institution with a comprehensive perspective. The goal of the SPF is to contribute to optimizing the quality of life of people with spinal cord injury (SCI) as well as “to learn for and from SCI” for the benefit of people with SCI and other health conditions. Prof. Stucki has been playing a key role in WHO´s ICF implementation activities.

In August 2009 he was appointed as Professor and Chair of the Seminar of Health Sciences and Health Policy (now Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine) at the University of Lucerne.

In 2012, Prof. Stucki received the honour of becoming a Foreign Associate of the Institute of Medicine, a part of the United States National Academies whose mission is to serve as adviser to the nation to improve health by consulting on issues relating to biomedical science, medicine, and health. 

Curriculum Vitae Prof. Gerold Stucki