Gerold Stucki
Director and Steering Committee

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Professor and Chair, Department of Health Sciences & Health Policy at the University of Lucerne

Director, Swiss Paraplegic Research

Director and Steering Committee member, ICF Research Branch, WHO-FIC Collaborating Centre in Germany (at DIMDI)

Gerold Stucki, MD, MS is Professor and Chair of the Seminar of Health Sciences and Health Policy at the University of Lucerne and Director of Swiss Paraplegic Research in Nottwil, Switzerland. He received his medical education at the University of Berne and obtained a Master of Science (MSc.) in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health and a diploma in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from the University of McGill, Montréal, Canada.

During his appointment as Chair of the Department of PRM at the Ludwig-Maximilian University from 1999-2009, Prof. Stucki pursued clinical research in PRM and musculoskeletal medicine, and developed a new research agenda for human functioning and rehabilitation research. His clinical research focused on the development of concepts and programs for multidisciplinary rehabilitation service and care provision in the acute hospital, inpatient rehabilitation, post-acute community care and prevention programs.

In the context of Prof.Stucki's new research agenda he has been collaborating with the WHO a member of its Classification, Terminology and Standards team in an international effort to implement the new International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in rehabilitation and the health sector in general. To facilitate human functioning sciences research, Prof. Stucki has initiated the ICF Research Branch at the LMU Institute for Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (www.icf-research-branch.org) as an international research network under the auspices of WHO´s German Collaboration Center for the Family of International Classifications. Since 2005, he has been assigned the task of developing the Swiss Paraplegic Research (SPF) into a research institution with a comprehensive perspective. The goal of the SPF is to contribute to optimizing the quality of life of people with spinal cord injury (SCI) as well as "to learn for and from SCI" for the benefit of people with SCI and other health conditions. With his teams at the ICF Research Branch and SPF, Prof. Stucki has been playing a key role in WHO´s ICF implementation activities.

Since August 2009 he has been appointed as Professor and Chair of the Seminar of Health Sciences and Health Policy at the University of Lucerne. The Seminar aims to run educational and research programs and to coordinate a forum that facilitates the translation of research into practice - all with the goal of optimizing the functioning and social inclusion of people with health conditions.