Head of Cardio-thoracic and Vascular Radiology
CHUV, Switzerland
David C. Rotzinger is a cardiothoracic and vascular radiologist at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL). He received his MD in 2017 and a PhD in life sciences at the UNIL in 2021. He serves as an attending physician in the Department of diagnostic and interventional radiology's cardiothoracic and vascular division the CHUV and is the head thereof since 2022. Since 2023, he is a senior lecturer with teaching autorization "PD-MER". His main research areas are evaluating and optimizing image quality and diagnostic performance in computed tomography (CT), including the more recent dual-energy (DECT) and photon-counting (PCCT) systems. His research projects include the assessment of novel non-invasive atherosclerotic inflammation markers derived from post-mortem CT studies. He is aslo a committee member of the Swiss Medical Board of Radiology.
