Beat H. Walpoth, MD, PhD, FAHA
Beat H. Walpoth, MD, is a trained cardiovascular surgeon, currently Emeritus of the University of Geneva. He obtained his medical degree in 1972 at the University of Zurich.  Postgraduate training at Harvard University, Boston (1973-75) and cardiac transplantation at Stanford University (1982-84). He held a visiting professorship at the University of Verona, Italy. He has over 200 publications including “Outcome of Survivors of Accidental Deep Hypothermia and Circulatory Arrest Treated with Extracorporeal Blood Warming” published in the New England Journal of Medicine (1987) and which is still the key paper on rewarming victims in deep accidental hypothermia with cardiac arrest using extracorporeal life support ECLS. Past-President of the European Society for Artificial Organs (ESAO). Recipient of several national and international awards, and founder and co-organizer of the International Symposia on Accidental Hypothermia (Cortina, Zermatt, Tromso, Bozen, Interlaken, Lausanne and Aberdeen); he has served on many international hypothermia panels and was the chairman of the task force on Drowning Hypothermia. At the University Hospital of Geneva, he and his team have developed the International Hypothermia Registry (www.hypothermia-registry.org), which gathers the knowledge of these rare accidents to improve the treatment and outcome of hypothermia victims.