PD Dr. med. Patrick Beeler
Head of Research
T +41 41 229 59 39 • Inseliquai 10, Room 209 • patrick.beeler@unilu.ch
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Patrick Beeler is Head of Research at the Center for Primary and Community Care, University of Lucerne, where he is in charge of research efforts focusing on interprofessional and integrated care.
Patrick Beeler graduated from the Medical School in Basel, where he also completed his dissertation. After briefly working as a resident in Internal Medicine and Radiology, he went on conducting interdisciplinary research as postdoc at the University of Zurich and the University Hospital Zurich. In collaboration with clinical experts, he developed, implemented and evaluated hospital-wide Clinical Decision Support interventions in clinical trials. For that purpose, he analysed large quantities of routinely collected electronic health record data. The Swiss National Science Foundation awarded him an 18-month research fellowship with Prof. David W. Bates at the Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA. Several successful research projects were completed in collaboration with the researchers in Boston and published as original articles, e.g. (i) an investigation of primary care physicians’ acceptance of Clinical Decision Support notifications by different clinical domains, (ii) the automated identification of patients with aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease, some of whom were unaware of their diagnosis and were then approached by their primary care physicians for referral and appropriate care, and (iii) the first study providing evidence that glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists prescribed to asthmatic diabetics are associated with fewer asthma exacerbations. After his return to the campus in Zurich, he continued to perform research addressing clinically significant questions and quality of care, e.g. a study showing that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation at hospital admission combined with interprofessional ward rounds is associated with fewer drug-related problems at discharge. He obtained the Habilitation from the University of Zurich as senior researcher at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute.