Prof Jürgen Hetzel

Pulmonologist
University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland

Biography
Prof Jürgen Hetzel is Head of the interventional Bronchoscopy at the University Hospital of Basel since April 2024. Hetzel is moving from the University Hospital of Tübingen to Switzerland. In Tübingen he worked as a senior physician. He headed the pneumology department and the pneumological intensive care unit for over ten years. He continues to work as an associate professor at the University Hospital in Tübingen.
Prof. Hetzel holds specialist titles in internal medicine, pneumology, sleep medicine, intensive care medicine and cardiology. Together with his brother, he discovered and developed the technique of cryorecanalisation. They were also the first to describe the current cryobiopsy technique and he developed it further for various indications.

Areas:

• Interventional bronchoscopy
• Bronchoscopic biopsy techniques
• Diagnostics of lung cancer
• Lung volume reduction
• Interstitial lung disease
• Intensive care medicine