Rafael Meyer

Rafael Meyer is the medical director and chief physician of the Clinic for Consultation-Liaison-, Old Age- and Neuropsychiatry, Member of the Executive Board and Chair of the Technical Committee of PDAG, president of the Association Swiss Memory Clinics since 2023 and a board member of the SGAP and SSCLPP.

He also sits on the expert committee of the FOPH's National Dementia Platform. He studied medicine and received his doctorate from the University of Zurich.

Until 2015, he completed his further training as a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy (PDAG, USZ, and PUK ZH). From 2015 to 2017, he worked in clinical research in the field of Alzheimer's disease at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM).

He supplemented his specialist training in psychiatry and psychotherapy with a DAS in neuropsychology (UZH), with a subspecialty in old-age psychiatry and psychotherapy, as well as with a subspecialty in consultation-liaison psychiatry.

In the field of healthcare management, he did a Master of Health Administration (MHA) at the University of Bern.

He is married, has two children in elementary school, and lives with his family in Zurich at the foot of the Uetliberg. In his free time, he enjoys reading and playing sports.