Head of Pediatrics, Eastern Switzerland Children’s Hospital St. Gallen
9006 St. Gallen, Switzerland
roger.lauener@kispisg.ch
www.kispisg.ch

Academic and Professional Career
1980–1987 Medical studies at the University of Zurich and Doctoral thesis in Immunology
1988 Resident, University Children’s Hospital Zurich
1988–1990 Division of Immunology, Children’s Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston
1990–1995 Resident, University Children’s Hospital Zurich
1995–2000 Attending Physician in Immunology/Allergology, Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit and General Pediatrics, University Children’s Hospital Zurich
2001–2004 Head of Allergology, University Children’s Hospital Zurich
2004–2007 Senior Attending Physician, University Children’s Hospital Zurich
2007–2008 Senior Attending Physician, Allergology & Pulmonology, University Children’s Hospital Zurich
2008–2012 Chief Physician, Allergy Clinic – Center for Children and Adolescents, Hochgebirgsklinik Davos
Since 12/2012 Chief of Pediatrics, Eastern Switzerland Children’s Hospital St. Gallen

Additional Education and Training

1992 Specialist in Laboratory Medicine FAMH (Immunology), Swiss Society for Laboratory Medicine
1998–1999 Diplôme d’Université in Paediatric Rheumatology, Université René Descartes, Paris
2004 Habilitation in Pediatrics, with a focus on Immunology and Allergology, Medical Faculty, University of Zurich
2008 European Health Leadership Programme, INSEAD, Fontainebleau
2011 Title of Professor (Titularprofessur), University of Zurich

Awards
Nestlé Prize for Research in Pediatrics (1993; 1996)
Gertrud and Walter Siegenthaler Prize of the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich (2005)
Guido Fanconi Prize of the Swiss Society of Paediatrics (2005)
Member of the Executive Board of CK-CARE (Christine Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education) (since 2009)
Invited keynote lectures at conferences of numerous national professional societies in Switzerland and other countries, as well as European, American, and international organisations.

Clinical Forus Areas
As a pediatrician: treatment of allergic diseases in children and adolescents.
As Chief Physician: development and advancement of medical training and education.
In research: investigation of the interaction between genes and environment in the development of childhood diseases, with a particular focus on allergic conditions.
Development of new approaches for the prevention and treatment of allergic diseases.

Memberships
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Pädiatrie
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Allergologie und Immunologie
Arbeitsgruppe der pädiatrischen Immunologen und Allergologen der Schweiz (Gründungsmitglied)
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pädiatrische Immunologie (Deutschland)
Gesellschaft für pädiatrische Pneumologie (Deutschland)
Gesellschaft für pädiatrische Allergologie (Deutschland)
European Acadamy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
American Thoracic Society
European Respiratory Society
Collegium Internationale Allergologicum