Email: lukas.anschuetz@chuv.ch
Biography
Prof. Anschütz is Head of Otology and Neurotology at the University Hospital of Lausanne, CHUV and serves as Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne. He received his medical degree 2011 at the University of Bern and was consecutively trained in Otorhinolaryngology in Bern and Fribourg. He spent 2016 one year in Modena, Italy with Prof. Livio Presutti, where he got passioned for endoscopic ear and lateral skull base surgery. The implementation of this innovative minimal-invasive treatment strategy allows to surgically heal a diversity of pathologies of the auditory system.
He received the Venia docendi at the University of Bern in 2020 and was appointed as Associate Professor in 2022. He has a special interest in interdisciplinary research and developed several projects involving biomedical engineers, biologists, physicists, psychologists, neuroscientists and medical education specialists. Pre- and postgraduate education is a very important part of his activity. Besides his regular teaching appointments for medical students, he developed the Swiss Endoscopic Ear Surgery course and has been a faculty member in several surgical courses internationally. Using innovative research methodologies such as eye tracking, he investigates the impact of the endoscopic approach to middle ear anatomy and surgical skills teaching. Moreover, he developed an ovine model for surgical training and was awarded “Teacher of the year” in 2022.
Scientific research
His research focuses on advanced imaging methodologies, endoscopic anatomy of the middle ear, surgical technical developments, and improving teaching methodologies for medical students and future ear surgeons.