Attending physician
Dr. med. Tobias Gehrig
Tel. 044 922 30 19
Specialist title
- Specialist in visceral surgery
- Specialist for surgery
Career
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Education
2015-2017 Part-time study program "Health Management and Controlling", Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University with Master of Business degree
Administration (MBA)
2008 - 2010 Postdoctoral fellow of the DFG funding program Research Training Group 1126 Intelligent Surgery
2007 PhD "Possible changes in the mRNA expression of sodium transporters in alveolar epithelial cells through inhibition of potassium channels in
Hypoxia", experimental work, supervisor: Prof. Dr. med.
Director of the Department of Sports Medicine, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
2004 License to practice medicine
1997-2004 Study of human medicine, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
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Further training
2018 Specialist in visceral surgery
2011 Specialist in surgery2010 - 2014 Assistant doctor and research assistant at the University of Heidelberg, Clinic
for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery (Prof. Dr. M.W. Büchler)
2008 - 2010 Postdoctoral researcher in the DFG funding program Research Training Group 1126 Intelligent
Surgery: "Development of new computer-based methods for the workplace
of the future in soft tissue surgery"
since 2008 Research assistant at the University of Heidelberg
2004-2008 Resident at Salem Hospital Heidelberg (PD Dr. M. v. Frankenberg)
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Management activity
Since 2026 Attending physician for visceral surgery, Männedorf Hospital
Since 2026 Self-employed in the surgical practice Bauchzentrum Rapperswil with attending physician activity
2025 - 2026 Head of General, Visceral, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery HOCH Health Eastern Switzerland - Linth Hospital site
(Renaming of the hospital due to the merger of the St. Gallen hospitals)
2023 Deputy CEO of Linth Hospital, Uznach
2019- 2024 Head of Department of Surgery and Chief Physician for General and Visceral Surgery,
Member of the Executive Board, Linth Hospital, Uznach, Switzerland
2015 - 2019 Deputy Head of the Department of Surgery, GRN Clinic Sinsheim (Prof. Dr. M. W.Büchler) and senior physician at the Surgical University Hospital in Heidelberg
2014 - 2015 Senior physician in the Department of Surgery, GRN Clinic Sinsheim (Prof. Dr. M. W. Büchler, Dr. T. Simon)
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Memberships
- FMH - Swiss Medical Association (Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum)
- Medical Association of the Canton of St. Gallen
- Linth Region Medical Association (MVL)
- Swiss Society for Visceral Surgery (SGVC)
- Swiss Society for Surgery (SGC)
- Swiss College of Surgeons (SCS)
- German Society for Surgery (DGCH)
- German Society for General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV)
- German Hernia Society (DHG)
- Surgical Consortium for Minimally Invasive Surgery (CAMIC)
- Surgical Working Group on Endocrinology (CAEK)