Docteur PD Patrick Ruchat

Specialist in
Cardiac and thoracic Vascular Surgery
Languages
French, German, English

Professional career

1995 - 2012
Certified Physician for EHC Cardiac and Carotid Surgery at Morges
1994 - 2012
Associate Physician, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, CHUV
Practice in all areas of adult cardiac and vascular surgery and development and introduction of new surgical techniques, including:
  • carotid thromboendarterectomy under loco-regional anaesthesia since 1993.
  • Endoprosthetic treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms, then thoracic aneurysms and aortic ruptures since 1995.
  • Surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation
2012
Higher course in surgical techniques at the University of Louvain in Brussels, ‘Plastic surgery on the aortic valve’ (Prof. El-Khoury)
2008
Visiting scholar, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt (Professor K. Eisa)
2007
Senior Scientist (MER) and Privat-Docent, UNIL
2001
Higher course in surgical techniques at the University of Paris, ‘Mitral plastic surgery’ (Prof. A. Carpentier)
1997
IRCAD course, Strasbourg, ‘Video-assisted cardiac surgery’
1996
Visiting physician, Cardiac Surgery Unit, John Radcliffe Heart Centre, Oxford, UK (Mr S. Westaby)
1995
Visiting physician, Vascular Surgery Unit, University of South Manchester, UK (Prof. D. Charlesworth)
1993
Visiting physician, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, CHU Bocage in Dijon, France (Prof. M. David)
1990 - 1994
Senior Physician, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, CHUV (Prof. H. Sadeghi)
1989 - 1990
Senior Physician, Surgical Department, Hôpital de Zone, Payerne (Dr O. Rostan)
1988 - 1989
Assistant, Intensive Surgical Care Department, CHUV (Prof. R. Chioléro)
1984 - 1985
Assistant, Institute of Pathology, University of Zurich (Prof. Chr. Hedinger)
1983 - 1988
Assistant and Deputy Head of Clinic, Surgical Department, CHUV (Prof. F. Saegesser, H. Sadeghi, JJ. Livio & G. Chapuis)

Schools, university & degrees and diplomas

1994
FMH specialist in Cardiac and Vascular Surgery
1992
Foreign Medical Graduate Examination in Medical Sciences (USA equivalence)
1990
Complete FMH training in General Surgery
1988
Doctor’s thesis in Medicine, University of Zurich
1982
Federal diploma in Medicine, University of Lausanne

Further information

Other skills
  • 1994: FMH course, ‘Medical monitoring and management’
  • 1997: IUMSP course, Lausanne ‘Control and promotion of the quality of medical care’
Expert in review committees & Editorial Board
  • European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery
  • Circulation
  • Stroke
  • Cerebrovascular Disease
  • Interactive Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Swiss Medical Weekly (Editorial Board)

Practices at

Memberships and partnerships

  • Federatio Medicorum Helveticorum
  • Société Vaudoise de Médecine
  • Société Académique Vaudoise
  • Club Romand des Chirurgiens Vasculaires Groupe Suisse et Groupe Romand des Maladies Cérébro-vasculaires
  • Swiss Transplantation Society Société
  • Suisse de Chirurgie Cardiaque et Vasculaire Thoracique (SSCCVT)
  • European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
  • European Club of Young Cardiac Surgeons
Vocational policy
  • President of the Association des Médecins Cadres du CHUV, 1999 – 2010
  • SVM Delegate, AMC-CHUV Grouping, 2002 – 2012
  • Vice-President, Assembly of Delegates, 2006 – 2014
  • President and Delegates, SVM Surgeons’ Grouping, 2012 – 2015
  • Member of the SSCTCV Committee, 2006 – 2011

Publications & videos

Events & lectures