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Jeanne du Fay de Lavallaz

Michigan Medicine, University Hospital of Basel, University of Pennsylvania, Dresden International University, Triemli Hospital, University of Basel

Research areas: Medicine · Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine · Acute Myocardial Infarction Research · Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics · Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments

ORCID iD 0000-0002-0806-1786
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Jeanne du Fay de Lavallaz, MD-PhD, is a cardiology fellow currently training in Zürich, Switzerland. She graduated as a medical doctor (MD) in 2016 and received her doctorate (PhD) degree in Clinical Cardiology with the mention "summa cum laude" in 2019 from the University of Basel.

She trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at several institutions, both in the US (Rush University Medical Center, Chicago) and in Switzerland (University Hospital of Basel, University Hospital of Zürich and Triemlispital, Zürich). She is currently training as an Electrophysiology Fellow at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA)

Her research in Clinical Cardiology and Electrophysiology focusses on the investigation of cardiac syncope, diagnostic and treatment of atrial fibrillation, electrophysiological procedures for ventricular arrhythmia and the use of cardiac biomarkers in special patients populations. She authored and co-authored more than 100 scientific publications in international journals, including first authorship in high-impact cardiology journals such as "Circulation" or the "Journal of the American College of Cardiology".

Her special interest for emerging technologies and for the rise of machine learning in medicine led her to undertake the competitive "Master of Computing and Information Technology" from the University of Pennsylvania, providing her with a formal training in computing sciences.

Her research has been funded by several grants from the Swiss Heart Foundation.
Since 2022, she is the Statistical Editor for the "Journal of Interventional Electrophysiology".

She received numerous scientific awards, including among others the Award for the best PhD Thesis from the University of Basel, the Otto Hess Trainee Award, The Pfizer Research Price and the T. Willerson Award from the high-impact Cardiology Journal "Circulation".

Languages : French, German, English, Italian

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Projects & Funding

  • Young Investigator Award from the European Heart Rhythm Association: Severe complications in ablation for atrial fibrillation European Society of Cardiology
    2023 - 2023
  • Pfizer Price: Skeletal Muscle Disorders: A Noncardiac Source of Cardiac Troponin T Pfizer Foundation
    2023 - 2023
  • Heart&Muscle Study - Analysis of prognosis and muscle tissue Swiss Heart Foundation
    2022 - 2023
  • Arrhythmia-induced Cardiomyopathy – an international prospective observational case-control study Swiss Heart Foundation
    2022 - 2023
  • James T. Willerson Award : Skeletal Muscle Disorders: A Noncardiac Source of Cardiac Troponin T Circulation Editorial Board
    2022 - 2022
  • Severe complications in ablation for atrial fibrillation - a multicenter international collaboration project Swiss Heart Foundation
    2022 - 2023
  • Reliability of cardiac troponins for the diagnosis of myocardial infarction in patients with rhabdomyolysis Swiss Heart Foundation
    2020 - 2021
  • Young Investigator Award from the European Society of Cardiology : Application of the ESC and AHA guidelines for admission of syncope patients presenting to the ED. European Society of Cardiology
    2020 - 2020
  • Price for the best Dissertation 2020 : Biomarkers in Syncope University of Basel
    2020 - 2020
  • Otto Hess Trainee Award: B-Type Natriuretic Peptides and Cardiac Troponins for Diagnosis and Risk-Stratification of Syncope Swiss Heart Foundation
    2019 - 2019
  • Swiss Rhythm Research Price : Biomarkers in Syncope Swiss Rhythm Foundation
    2019 - 2019
  • Best poster presentation: Cardiac Troponins in Syncope Global Research on Acute Conditions
    2018 - 2018
  • Heart&Muscle Study - Circulating cardiac biomarkers and their impact on the diagnosis of myocardial infarction in patients with chronic skeletal disease Swiss Heart Foundation
    2018 - 2019
  • Antelope@University Universität Basel
    2018 - 2018
  • Use of Neurohumoral Signals in the Early Diagnosis and Risk Stratification of Patients with Syncope Margot und Erich Goldschmidt und Peter René Jacobson-Stiftung
    2016 - 2017

Publications (112)