Collaboratively implementing the mandate of the Swiss Personalized Health Network

The SPHN Management Office (MO) is hosted by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS)

The MO is in charge of the administrative and the daily operation of the initiative such as preparation of the meetings of the various boards, controlling, budgeting, and reporting. It coordinates the National Steering Board (NSB), the NSB Ausschuss, the ELSI Advisory Group (ELSIag), the Hospital IT Strategy Alignment Group (HIT-STAG; in collaboration with the PHI Group), the National Advisory Board (NAB; in collaboration with the PHI Group), and the International Advisory Board (IAB).

Contact: Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) | Haus der Akademien | Laupenstrasse 7 | CH-3001 Bern | E-mail SPHN

The Personalized Health Informatics Group (PHI) is a part of SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

The PHI Group is in charge of the SPHN Data Coordination Center (DCC), and its mandate is to promote the development and implementation of nationwide standards for data semantics and exchange mechanisms in order to meet the interoperability goals of the SPHN initiative. In addition, the PHI Group also coordinates the DCC Expert Working Groups.

The PHI Group also manages the BioMedIT project, providing researchers in Switzerland with access to a (high-performance) service infrastructure for collaborative analysis, and secure transfer of sensitive data.

Contact: Personalized Health Informatics Group (PHI) | Elisabethenstrasse 43 | CH-4051 Basel | E-mail PHI

Dr. Thomas Geiger

Managing Director
SPHN MO
Thomas supports the NSB President in his functions and is responsible for the day-to-day management and good governance of the SPHN initiative.

Dr. Katrin Crameri, MPH

Director
SIB PHI
Full of energy and enthusiasm, Katrin leads the Data Coordination Center activities and the relations with the BioMedIT project.

Owen Appleton

Senior IT Services Manager
SIB PHI
Owen’s experience in Service Management for research supports the professional delivery of services to the SPHN community.

Dr. Jan Armida

Scientific Coordinator
FAIR Data Team | SIB PHI
Jan brings all his passion and expertise to the SPHN task forces to advance FAIRifcation of health-related data.

Michaela Egli

Project Manager, Ethical, Legal, Social Implications | SPHN MO
Michaela supports ELSI issues in SPHN by bringing in her expertise in philosophy of medicine and science.

Patricia Fernández Pinilla

Technical Coordinator
BioMedIT Team | SIB PHI
Patricia brings in her technical background to help coordinate and support activities in the BioMedIT project.

Kristin Gnodtke

Senior Clinical Data Specialist
FAIR Data Team | SIB PHI
Kristin contributes to the selection, documentation and implementation of standards for clinical data interoperability within SPHN.

Sergio Guarino

Technical Coordinator
BioMedIT Team | SIB PHI
Sergio brings his ICT and security background to help coordinate and support activities in the BioMedIT project.

Simone Guzzi

Full Stack Software Developer
BioMedIT Team | SIB PHI
Simone brings his passion and knowledge in software development to the BioMedIT Interoperability Working Group, evolving and expanding BioMedIT project's services.

Dr. Petar Horki

Scientific Coordinator
SIB PHI
Petar brings his engineering know-how, clinical data experience and passion for biomedical informatics to advance the SPHN interoperability goals.

Shubham Kapoor

Lead BioMedIT Research IT Services & BioMedIT Team | SIB PHI
Shubham brings in his Cloud, HPC & sensitive data processing expertise to architect BioMedIT’s secure computing environments.

Dr. Julia Maurer

Team Lead Ethical, Legal, Social Implications | SIB PHI
Julia uses her experience and expertise using health-related data as a clinical researcher, to support/promote the ethical and legal questions in SPHN and BioMedIT.

Michael Müller-Breckenridge

Operations Officer
SIB PHI
Michael's experience in administration, management and communication is all put to good use in support of PHI's diverse portfolio of activities.

Dr. sc. ETH Sabine Österle

Lead Semantic Interoperability Strategy & FAIR Data Team | SIB PHI
Sabine oversees and manages the PHI portfolio and related activities towards achieving the SPHN FAIRIfication goals.

Christine Remund

Project administration specialist
SPHN MO
Christine uses her accounting and organizational expertise to support the various MO activities and to manage the financial aspects of the initiative.

Dr. Liselotte Selter

Scientific Coordinator
SPHN MO
Liselotte uses her scientific background and organizational skills to communicate and coordinate operational SPHN activities.

Dr. Vasundra Touré

Scientific Coordinator
FAIR Data Team | SIB PHI
Vasundra brings her expertise to implement RDF technologies to enhance the FAIRness of health-related data.

Deepak Unni

Scientific Coordinator
FAIR Data Team | SIB PHI
Deepak brings his experience working with semantic web technologies, building knowledge graphs, and implementation of FAIR data principles to augment the semantics and interoperability goals of SPHN.

Dr. Sarah Vermij

Scientific Coordinator
SPHN MO
Sarah uses her scientific background and organizational skills to communicate and coordinate operational SPHN activities.

Dr. Harald Witte

Senior Clinical Data Specialist
FAIR Data Team | SIB PHI
Harald contributes to the selection, documentation and implementation of standards for clinical data interoperability within SPHN.

Contributors from SIB Legal funded through SPHN

Fréderic Erard, Head of Legal & Technology Transfer, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Mathilde Heusghem, Legal Officer, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Contributors as permanent consultants

Léon Hinderling, Data Interoperability Team, Trivadis, a part of Accenture

Philip Krauss, Data Interoperability Team, Trivadis, a part of Accenture

Roger Mathis, Data Interoperability Team, IT-Logix

Christian Ribeaud, BioMedIT Team, Karakun

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