Steffen Eychmüller
Steffen Eychmüller is a palliative care physician since more than 20 years. Specialized in Internal medicine, psychosomatics and psychotherapy he learned from several stays in Australia how to run a regional palliative care as well as an academic center in this field. He led the Center for Palliative Care at the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen from 1999 to 2011 and built up the University Center for Palliative Care at the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland from 2012, taking over the first professorship for palliative medicine at the University of Bern in 2016. Inspired from a collaboration with Kerala, India, he started to co-create compassionate communities in 2008 in the Eastern part of Switzerland, followed by the compassionate city of Bern, the Swiss capital, in 2020.