Nicolas Senn

Après avoir terminé ses études de médecine à Lausanne en 1998, le professeur Nicolas Senn réalise sa formation post-graduée en médecine interne générale et commence à travailler à la Policlinique médicale universitaire de Lausanne (PMU) en 2002. Depuis janvier 2019, à la création d’Unisanté, il est nommé médecin-chef et prend la direction du Département médecine de famille. Professor Nicolas Senn, qualified in medicine in Lausanne in 1998 and trained both in family medicine and epidemiology.  From 2005 to 2009, he worked in Papua New Guinea for the University of Melbourne (Australia) on a research project on the prevention of malaria in young children. He was appointed director of the University Institute of Family Medicine in 2016 and,  following the creation of Unisanté  in January 2019, he was appointed Head of the Family Medicine Department. In this function, he his responsible for the teaching curriculum in family medicine at the faculty of biology and medicine of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). His research interests are in health services and on the links between health and environment in clinical practice. He is co-founder in 2020 of the French-speaking Primary Care Group (www.gfisp.org).