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Eva Scheurer Takes Over the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Medicine
On August 1, Prof. Dr. Eva Scheurer will become Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Here we briefly introduce the new office holder and take a look into the near future with her.
Born in Basel, she completed her medical doctorate in 1999 and completed continuing education to become a specialist in forensic medicine. In order to be able to use magnetic resonance technology for forensic work, she also studied physics and habilitated in forensic medicine in 2013 on the subject of magnetic resonance imaging in forensic medicine. From 2011 to 2014, Scheurer headed the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Clinical Forensic Imaging in Graz, since when she has been Director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine Basel and Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Basel. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Medical Coordination Committee, an overarching strategic body for the management of medical practice and research in Northwestern Switzerland, and since 2015 she has also been a member of the Senate of the University of Basel. Since taking office as Dean, she has represented the Faculty of Medicine on these and numerous other boards and committees.
Prior to 2014, the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Department of Health of the Canton of Basel-Stadt was primarily active in services for the police and judiciary as well as in university teaching. After taking up her post as Director, Scheurer established a competitive research environment in terms of infrastructure, technology and personnel. Since then, three research groups have been working in the fields of (1) forensic chemistry and toxicology, (2) forensic medicine and imaging and (3) forensic genetics in order to expand the spectrum of possibilities for forensic data acquisition and use. Scheurer thus accompanied and advanced forensic medicine in a phase of increasing technologization. Under Scheurer's leadership, the IRM also became a driver of innovation for the harmonization of forensic processes in various cantons and forensic medical institutions, for example in the age estimation of persons, which had previously often been carried out differently. Introducing and guiding such standardization processes requires the ability to collaborate with fundamentally different partners in a pending and integrative manner - a skill that will also be required at the Faculty of Medicine.
As Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, one of Scheurer's aims is to make the numerous negotiation, goal-setting and decision-making processes more tangible for the stakeholders within the Faculty of Medicine. Through more efficient internal communication, they should always be informed about current issues and discussions, feel invited to participate and thus have a say in the paths that the Faculty will take from now on.
You can find more information about Scheurer's offices and activities here.
- Click here for the Institute of Forensic Medicine
- Scheurer in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung
- Scheurer in the Tageswoche
- Scheurer on the radio
- Scheurer's predecessors in office