Prof. Dr. Gregor Zünd has been CEO and President of the Hospital Executive Board of the Zurich University Hospital since 2016. Before his appointment, he was Director of Research and Education and in this function already a member of the Executive Board of the Zurich University Hospital and Managing Director of the Centre for Clinical Research. Prof. Zünd is a specialist in cardiac and thoracic heart surgery. He completed further trainings at the Zurich University Hospital. In addition, he spent several years at the Texas Medical Center in Houston and at the Harvard Medical School in Boston. Prof. Zünd is member of the Medical Faculty at the University of Zürich.