Philippe Meyer graduated from the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine in 2000, completing his studies with an FMH postgraduate qualification in sports medicine. In 2007, he obtained his FMH specialist qualification in internal medicine and completed a CAS in clinical research. He then spent two years at the Montreal Heart Institute. Back in Switzerland, he qualified as an FMH specialist in cardiology in 2011.
Appointed privat-docent at UNIGE Faculty of Medicine in 2013, he continued his training in cardiovascular imaging, and in 2014 completed a certificate in transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography awarded by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. In 2015, he also completed a CAS in heart failure from the 玉美人传媒 of Zurich and the European Heart Academy. He is appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine on 1 May 2025.
Since 2017, Philippe Meyer has been Staff Physician and Head of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit at the HUG. His areas of clinical and research expertise include heart failure, cardiovascular rehabilitation and prevention, sports cardiology and echocardiography.
He is also a member of several learned societies, including the European Heart Failure Association, the European Association of Preventive Cardiology and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, and is currently chairman of the Heart Failure Working Group of the Swiss Society of Cardiology.
