Dr. med Stephan Schlunke is a trusted, patient-focused Doctor with over 25 years of clinical experience and a long history of serving patients. With extensive involvement in carrying out emergency and scheduled surgical procedures, he is considered a mentor by many of his colleagues. He is a long time teacher in nursing schools, in the operation theatre and wards of the different hospitals and organizations he worked with and for. He was a speaker in several patient’s security conferences and contributed first hand to the implementation of the “surgical time out“ procedure in Switzerland.

Besides his passion, which is surgery, other interests include personal mastery and psychology, vine producing, photography, sailing and abstract painting. His medical career began in 1991:

Medical Doctor 1991
University Fribourg & University Basel, Switzerland

Swiss General Surgery Board 1998
Foederatio Medicorum Helvetica (FMH), Switzerland

European Board of Vascular Surgery 2001
European Union of Medical Specialists UEMS), France

Swiss Traumatology Board 2006
Foederatio Medicorum Helvetica (FMH), Switzerland

Swiss vascular Surgery Board 2006
Foederatio Medicorum Helvetica (FMH), Switzerland

CRM-Simulator Instructor 2013
InPass Patientensicherheit, Switzerland

Humanitarian activities

Responsible medical doctor in partner project of Swiss Hospital Twining in gynecological hospital of Botosani (Romania), 2001 - 2003

Medical associate of collaboration and sustain project for Lahej Hospital (Yemen), 2009 - 2013

Enlisted for Mercyships (project halted because of Covid-19)