| 2019 | Adjunct Professor Institute for Social Preventive Medicine, University of Bern |
| 2018 | Project Leader EUREKA – Project CH-RU “from space to earth” |
| 2015 | International Academy of Astronautics, Study Group 2.15 |
| 2015 | Research Consultant ARTORG Research Center, University of Bern |
| 2013 - | Senior Consultant, University Clinic for Cardiology, Inselspital Bern |
| 2013 | President Swiss Network for CVD Prevention swissprevent.ch |
| 2013 | Congress Director European Congress on eCardiology & eHealth |
| 2012 - | Chair of Preventive and Acute Cardiology, I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Russia |
| 2012 | Honorary Member of the National Russian Society for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation. |
| 2008 | Associate Professor University of Bern |
| 2008 - 2010 | Director Research Methods Training Courses, European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation |
| 2007 | Senior Editor European Journal of Preventive Cardiology |
| 2006 – 2014 | Co-founder and committee member of the Graduate School for Health Sciences, University of Bern |
| 2006 – 2008 | President European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation |
| 2006 | Doctor honoris causa, University of Timisoara / Romania |
| 2006 | Honorary member Romanian Society of Cardiology |
| 2006 | Peter Beckmann medal for special merits and honorary member Deutsche Gesellschaft für Prävention und Rehabilitation DGPR |
| 2004 – 2008 | National Coordinator ESC/SGK for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention |
| 2003 – 2007 | Editor-in-Chief European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation |
| 1997 – 2013 | Director Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, University Hospitals, Inselspital, Bern |
| 1996 | Titular Professor Cardiology, University of Bern |
| 1991-2004 | Board of Directors Swiss Heart Foundation |
| 1989 | Assistant Professor, University of Bern |
| 1984 | Research Fellow Hennepin County Hospital, Abbott Northwestern Hospitals and the University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN/USA |
| 1982 | Research Fellow Microcirculation, University Hospitals, Inselspital Bern |
| 1980 | Fellowship Cardiology Division, University Hospitals, Inselspital Bern |
| 1968 – 1975 | School of Medicine, University of Berne, Switzerland |
