I was born in 1956 and grew up in Geneva. I studied medicine in Geneva and obtained my Swiss diploma in 1981. I trained in several hospitals in Switzerland (Zurich, Geneva, the cantons of Valais and St. Gallen), London and Montreal. I became a neurologist in 1989. I also developed an expertise in behavioral neurology and neurosciences with a special interest in language and aphasia rehabilitation.
I worked as a fully trained neurologist and clinical Neuroscientist at the Geneva and Lausanne hospitals. I did my habilitation in 2000, then a professor at the University of Fribourg in 2010. Since then, I have been working as Professor of neurology at the University of Fribourg and as a neurologist at the Fribourg hospital.
I deal with all neurological problems, and more specifically with memory and language problems, degenerative diseases, and headaches. Since I have been in Fribourg, I have organized the teaching of neurology to medical students and supervised Master and Doctoral theses. For the last 20 years, my research activities have focused on the after-effects and relearning after a stroke and on the cerebral organization of language, particularly in the case of bilingualism and of bilingual speakers.
