Associate Professor of Cardiology and Vice Chairman of the Cardiovascular Center of Cardiology, University Hospital in Zurich.
Prof. Noll is currently an Associate Professor of Cardiology at the University Hospital in Zurich, as well as the present Vice Chairman of the Cardiovascular Center of Cardiology at the University Hospital in Zurich. He started his medical school training at the University of Basel, completing his Doctor thesis in 1984, which covered the significance of sympathetic stimulation for rhythm and hemodynamics in patients with acute myocardial infarction. He continued his education at the Internal Medicine unit and Cardiology unit at the City Hospital, Triemli in Zurich. He followed this by attaining a Research Fellowship at the Atherosclerosis Research Institute at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA which was supported by a grant from the Swiss National Foundation.
He merited a Research Fellowship in the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology at the University of Göteborg, Sahlgren Hospital, Sweden. By 1993, he had become a Research Associate in the Division of Cardiology, at the University Hospital in Bern, gaining a SCORE (Swiss Clinicians Opting for Research) grant of the Swiss National Foundation. He then achieved an Associate Professorship in Cardiology at the University Hospital in Bern in 1996. In the same year he became a Senior Consultant in the Division of Cardiology in the Cardiovascular Research at the University Hospital in Zurich where he is responsible for the Heart Failure Clinic and Preventive Cardiology.
In 1998 he received the Pfizer Research Prize in the area of Clinical Research in Cardiology. He is currently a board member of the Swiss Society of Hypertension and the Heart Failure Working Group of the Swiss Society of Cardiology. Furthermore he is involved in reviewing many journals. His major research interest focuses on the role of sympathetic nervous system and endothelial function for the regulation of hemodynamics and the development of atherosclerosis.
