Leonce Mwizerwa is a clinic director in pediatric cardiology at University Hospitals Geneva
Medical Center, where he was a pediatric resident from 2018 to 2021. He holds an MBBS from the University of Rwanda (2012). He worked as a pediatric resident at Hôpital du Valais and as a chief physician at Rwinkwavu District Hospital.
Tornike Sologashvili began his medical studies in 2000 at Tbilisi State University. Very early on, he became interested in cardiac surgery, which he practiced from his first year of medicine in the laboratory, and he worked with foreign cardiac surgery teams including in Geneva during his studies. In 2006, he began his specialty in cardiac surgery in Georgia. In 2008, he trained with Professor Wojtalik in Poznan, Poland. He joined the cardiovascular surgery department of the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) in January 2011. He was appointed head of the clinic at the HUG in 2013 and an accredited doctor at the CHUV in 2016. Since the creation of the French-speaking Center for Cardiac Surgery, he has been the replacement surgeon for Pr. R Prêtre. He has already performed more than 1200 open heart operations (three quarters in Geneva), including interventions as complex as arterial and atrial switches, Norwood, unifocalization, and auto-transplantation. He also has to his credit several publications in scientific journals and educational surgical videos and participates in the training of the next generation. Since 2016, he has operated on the two sites (Geneva and Lausanne) of the French-speaking Center for Cardiac Surgery.
Arnaud G L’Huillier trained in pediatric infectious diseases at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto after studying medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Geneva and training in pediatrics at the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG). Still in Canada, he specialized in virology and transplant infectious diseases at the University Health Network. Thanks to his research work in the field, the International Pediatric Transplantation Association (IPTA) awarded him the Future Leader Career Development Award. He returned to HUG in 2019 and has been the head of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit since 2022. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was appointed a representative of the Swiss Society of Pediatrics within the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force.
