Chief of Visceral Surgery, Director of the Department of Surgery
Prof. Dr. med., Dr. phil. Marco Bueter
Viszeralchirurgie, Adipositaschirurgie
Tel. 044 922 25 11
Subject Title
- Board-certified specialist in general surgery with a focus on visceral surgery
Language Skills
- German
- English
Career History
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Clinical History
March 2021 FMH Subspecialty Certification in Visceral Surgery
Since January 2020, Director of the Surgery Department and Chief of Visceral Surgery, Department of Surgery, Spital Männedorf AG
May 2018 – February 2025: Attending Physician, Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery, USZ (Prof. Dr. P.-A. Clavien)
April 2013 – February 2025: Director of the Bariatric Surgery Program, Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery, USZ (Prof. Dr. P.-A. Clavien)
Oct. 2010 – Apr. 2018: Senior Resident, Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery, USZ (Prof. Dr. P.-A. Clavien)
Oct. 2008 – Sept. 2010 Research Fellow, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Department of Investigative Medicine (Prof. S.R. Bloom, Prof. C.W. le Roux)
Research Grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG):
Do "good" hormones contribute to the mechanism of weight loss following bariatric surgery? (BU 2430/1-1 & 2430/1-2)
June 2008: Board-Certified Surgeon, Bavarian State Medical Association, Munich, Germany
October 2002 – September 2008: Resident, University Surgical Clinic of Würzburg, Germany (Prof. Dr. A. Thiede)
April 2002 – September 2002 Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory (Prof. G. Benichou, PhD), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Academic Background
September 2016 – December 2022: Assistant Professor of Bariatric Surgery (non-tenure track), University of Zurich
Since January 2023, Adjunct Professor, University of Zurich
August 2014: Awarded the venia legendi in the field of visceral surgery, University of Zurich
Title of the habilitation thesis: “Gut Hormones, Energy Expenditure, and Bariatric Surgery”
May 2011 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London, UK
Title of the PhD thesis: “Changes in Food Preferences and Taste Responses after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass”
November 2002: Awarded a Ph.D. by the School of Medicine, Julius-Maximilians-
University of Würzburg, Germany (magna cum laude)
Title of the dissertation: “The interferon-stimulated response element (ISRE)-binding protein complex DRAF1 is activated in Sindbis virus (HR)-infected cells”
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Memberships
Swiss Society for Visceral Surgery (SGVC)
German Society for Visceral Surgery (DGVC)
International Federation for Surgery of Obesity (IFSO)
Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB)
International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO)
Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP)
Swiss Society for the Study of Morbid Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (SMOB)