Docteur Marc-Etienne Corthésy

Specialist in
Anaesthesiology
General Internal Medicine
Qualification certificates
Medical hypnosis
Emergency care physician (SGNOR)
Interdisciplinary focuses
Interventional Pain Management (SSIPM)
Languages
French, English

Core competencies

  • Locoregional anaesthesia and hypno-analgesia
  • Treatment of chronic and acute pain
  • Emergencies

Professional career

2007 - 2013
Chief Physician, Anaesthesia Department, Hôpital Riviera
2007 - 2013
Referring Physician, Clinique Douleur Providence
2000 - 2007
Assistant Physician the Senior Physician, Anaesthesia Department, Intensive Care Department, Lausanne CHUV
1998 - 2000
Internal Medicine (Clinical), Hôpital de la Toure, Meyrin, Dr C. de Sernarciens
1998 - 1998
Ambulatory Psychiatry (Clinical), CITB Lausanne, Dr D. Peter
1996 - 1998
General Surgery (Clinical), Lausanne CHUV, Prof. M. Gillet
1993 - 1996
Neurosciences (Research), National Institute of Health, Washington DC, USA, Dr E.H. Oldfield
1989 - 1993
Anatomy (Research and Teaching, University of Lausanne, Prof. H. Van des Loos
1988 - 1989
General Surgery (Clinical), Lausanne CHUV, Prof. M. Gillet

Schools, university & degrees and diplomas

2018
Additional training in medical hypnosis
2013
Additional training as SSMUS Emergency Physician
2010
Capacity to Evaluate and Manage Chronic Pain, Faculty of Medicine Paris VI
2009
Certificate of Advanced Training in Interventional Pain Treatment, FMH-SSIPM
2005
Hospital Emergency Physician’s Certificate, SSMUS/SGNOR
2004
Specialist’s diploma in Anaesthesiology, FMH-SSAR
2003
Emergency Physician’s Certificate, SSMUS/SGNOR
2000
FMH Medical Practitioner’s title
2000
Doctorate in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lausanne
Graduate of the University of Lausanne, ‘Partial denervation of the whiskerpard in adult mice’
1992
ECMFG Certificate, Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
1987
Swiss diploma in Medicine

Practices at

Memberships and partnerships

  • FMH, Federatio Medicorum Helveticorum
  • SVM, Société Vaudoise de Médecine
  • IASP, International Society for the Study of the Pain
  • SSAR-SGAR, Société Suisse d’Anesthésie et Réanimation
  • SSIPM, Swiss Society for Interventional Pain Management
  • SSETD, Société Suisse d’Etude et Traitement de la Douleur
  • SAV, Société Académique Vaudoise

Publications & videos

Events & lectures