Associate Physician or Senior Associate Physician in the Department of Visceral Surgery and Transplantation – 100%

Company Description

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Geneva University Hospitals are a nationally and internationally recognized institution. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to view our 2024 retrospective by clicking  here .

The position is attached to the  Department of Surgery . This department provides care for patients both electively and in emergencies. It represents a center of excellence, not only Swiss but also European in several fields and in many of its surgical specialties. 

The transplantation service is responsible for the assessment, treatment, and medico-surgical follow-up of patients transplanted with solid organs (liver, kidney, pancreas, islets of Langerhans, small intestine, multivisceral transplants).

It also ensures the follow-up of Geneva patients transplanted with heart and lung at the CHUV, within the framework of the  Romand University Transplantation Center .

The service notably participates in organ retrievals and transplantations for pediatric recipients whose operations are performed at the Children’s Hospital.

The visceral surgery service’s mission is primarily to treat diseases of the abdominopelvic organs. The transplantation service ensures the assessment, treatment, and medico-surgical follow-up of transplanted patients. 

Through its surgical investigation unit, the visceral surgery service has developed in-depth and exclusive expertise in the fields of organ and cell transplantation, various techniques for treating chronic diseases, and the handling of organs for transplantation.

Benefiting from numerous national and international collaborations, physicians in training enjoy high-level supervision and the experience of seasoned surgeons who have deepened their knowledge in various leading centers abroad. 

Job Description

As a specialist in hepato-bilio-pancreatic surgery and transplantation, you will work in a stimulating university environment within a multidisciplinary team, participating in the clinical and surgical activities of the visceral surgery and transplantation services. The institution is a reference center in the field, providing care for local patients and those referred from other regions. Our activity is focused on minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic surgery (liver and pancreas). We perform all abdominal transplantations (liver, kidney, pancreas, pancreatic islets, small intestine).

In your role, you supervise and ensure the care of hospitalized patients as well as outpatients during dedicated consultations of the Transplantation Service and the hepato-pancreato-biliary team of the Visceral Surgery Service. You are responsible for transplantation and emergency on-call duties in visceral surgery and assist the head physician of the service in supervising medical and administrative activities and the operational management of the service.

Should the structure evolve into a center, you will be able to co-direct it and contribute to strategic development while promoting research and actively participating in pre- and post-graduate teaching.

Qualifications

You hold a federal medical diploma or an equivalent title recognized by MEBEKO. You have an FMH title in digestive surgery or an equivalent title recognized by MEBEKO.

You possess or will need to obtain a Geneva cantonal practice license.

You have extensive experience in hepato-bilio-pancreatic surgery (including minimally invasive) and transplantation. You must be able to independently perform kidney or liver transplantation. You must be able to independently perform multi-organ retrieval and have an interest in pancreatic transplantation. Experience in living donor liver retrieval and split liver retrieval would be an advantage.

It is highly desirable that you possess an academic title or academic record (teaching, publications, research conducted, research funding obtained) allowing the acquisition of an academic title at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva according to current criteria.

A collaborative spirit with related medical and surgical disciplines is required.

Good command of the French language is essential, both spoken and written. A C1 level certificate is required for non-French speakers.

Additional Information

• Start date: To be agreed 
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 100%
• Function class: 26 or 27 
• Contract: Permanent
• Application deadline: 31.01.2026
• Contact for information: Prof. C. Toso, Visceral Surgery Service,  christian.toso@hug.ch  or Prof. P. Compagnon, Transplantation Service,  philippe.compagnon@hug.ch

Your application file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates.

This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.

Wishing to engage in the fight against unemployment, the HUG encourages applications coming from the Cantonal Employment Office.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.