Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca

Professor

Prof. Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca has graduated in medicine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He was trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiology in Switzerland. After doing a post-doc in Melbourne, Australia, for two years, he had been working as cardiologist and heart failure specialist in Zurich. In 2002, he moved to Basel, where he was responsible for the heart failure and heart transplant services. He has obtained his lecture qualification both in Zurich and in Basel and was announced as Professor in Basel Switzerland in 2008. Since 2009, he has been working at Maastricht UMC+ as Professor of Clinical Heart Failure. He is head of the heart failure clinic and head of the division of structural heart diseases.

He has been involved in numerous research projects since many years. In particular, he has a special interest in personalised medicine in heart failure using biomarkers and has successfully led international studies related to this topic. In addition, eHealth is an important focus of research. He has published >250 research articles.

He has been working as member of different working groups of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology and is board member of working group on heart failure in the Netherlands.

On the one hand, he is continuing his research on biomarker in heart failure for therapy guidance. He is collaborating internationally on this topic and is participating in several large international projects in this regard. On the other hand, he is leading an international consortium, aiming to develop a personalized eHealth application to enable patients with heart failure to perform self-care, i.e. including self-prescription of medication. Recently, the consortium received 4.4 M€ to support this project from INTERREG-NWE (budget Maastricht UMC+ > 2.0 M€).

He is additionally involved in national research projects (e.g. heart-brain connection, supported by CVON) and is the local PI of several large industry sponsored RCTs. In one of them, he is the national coordinator for the Netherlands.

Department of Cardiology
P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht
PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht
Room number: 3.B2.031
T: +31(0)43 387 70 97

2012
- van Wijk, S., Jacobs, L., Eurlings, L. W., van Kimmenade, R., Lemmers, R., Broos, P., Bekers, O., Prins, M. H., Crijns, H. J., Pinto, Y. M., van Dieijen-Visser, M. P., & Brunner-La Rocca, H. P. (2012). Troponin T Measurements by High-Sensitivity vs Conventional Assays for Risk Stratification in Acute Dyspnea. Clinical Chemistry, 58(1), 284-292. https://doi.org/10.1373/clinchem.2011.175976
2011
- Muzzarelli, S., Stricker, B. H., Pfister, O., Foglia, P., Moschovitis, G., Mombelli, G., & Brunner-La Rocca, H. (2011). Individual dosage of digoxin in patients with heart failure. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 104(4), 309-317. https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcq196
- Leventhal, M. E., Denhaerynck, K., Brunner-La Rocca, H.-P., Burnand, B., Conca, A., Bernasconi, A. T., Mahrer-Imhof, R., Froelicher, E. S., & De Geest, S. (2011). Swiss Interdisciplinary Management Programme for Heart Failure (SWIM-HF). Swiss Medical Weekly, 141, 10. https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2011.13171
- Bläuer, C., Mahrer-Imhof, R., Brunner-La Rocca, H., Mueller, C. P., Eze, G., Milbich, I., & Spirig, R. (2011). Development and Implementation of a multidisciplinary nurse-led educational programme for inpatients with heart failure: The Basel-HF-Programme: Entwicklung und Implementierung eines multidisziplinären pflegegeleiteten Programms zur stationären Betreuung von Patientinnen und Patienten mit Herzinsuffizienz: Das Basler HI-Programm. Pflege, 24(1), 29-41. https://doi.org/10.1024/1012-5302/a000089
- Alzand, B. S. N., Mihl, C., & La Rocca, H. P. B. (2011). Dehydration with High Natriuretic Peptide Levels! A Word of Caution. Cardiology, 118(2), 75-78. https://doi.org/10.1159/000326855
2010
- Kaiser, C. A., Galatius, S., Erne, P., Eberli, F., Alber, H., Rickli, H., Pedrazzini, G., Hornig, B., Bertel, O., Bonetti, P., De Servi, S., Brunner-La Rocca, H.-P., Ricard, I., & Pfisterer, M. E. (2010). Drug-Eluting versus Bare-Metal Stents in Large Coronary Arteries. New England Journal of Medicine, 363(24), 2310-2319. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1009406
- Maeder, M. T., Thompson, B. R., Brunner-La Rocca, H.-P., & Kaye, D. M. (2010). Hemodynamic Basis of Exercise Limitation in Patients With Heart Failure and Normal Ejection Fraction. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 56(11), 855-863. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2010.04.040
- Kuster, G. M., Nietlispach, F., Kiowski, W., Schindler, R., Bernheim, A. M., Schuetz, P., Mueller, B., Morgenthaler, N. G., Rueter, F., Riesen, W., Rickli, H., & Brunner-La Rocca, H. P. (2010). Role of RAS Inhibition in the Regulation of Cu/Zn-SOD in the Cardiac and Peripheral Arterial Beds in Humans. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 87(6), 686-692. https://doi.org/10.1038/clpt.2010.36
- Muzzarelli, S., Brunner-La Rocca, H., Pfister, O., Foglia, P., Moschovitis, G., Mombelli, G., & Stricker, H. (2010). Adherence to the medical regime in patients with heart failure. European journal of heart failure, 12(4), 389-396. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjhf/hfq015
- Kriemler, S., Zahner, L., Schindler, C., Meyer, U., Hartmann, T., Hebestreit, H., Brunner-La Rocca, H. P., van Mechelen, W., & Puder, J. J. (2010). Effect of school based physical activity programme (KISS) on fitness and adiposity in primary schoolchildren: cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ, 340, 8. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c785

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