Name: Christian Puelacher Date of Birth: April 21th, 1988 Academic Status: Senior Physician Position: PhD candidate / Resident Address: Department of Internal Medicine Research Group of Prof. Ch. Mueller University Hospital Basel Spitalstrasse 2 CH-4056 Basel Email: christian.puelacher@usb.ch

Education and Medical Training 2025-current Invasive Cardiology Fellowship, University Hospital Innsbruck 2023-2024 Residency Cardiology, University Hospital Innsbruck 2021-2023 Residency Cardiology, University Hospital Basel 2017-2020 Residency Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel 2013-2017 Doctoral studies, University Hospital Basel, Supervisor: Prof. Christian Müller, Switzerland 2007-2013 Medical studies, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria Employment history 2024-current Attending Cardiology, University Hospital Innsbruck, Prof. Axel Bauer 2023-2024 Residency Cardiology, University Hospital Innsbruck, Prof. Axel Bauer 2022-2024 Research Group Leader “Perioperative Cardiology”, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel 2021-2023 Residency Cardiology at the University Hospital Basel, Prof. Stefan Osswald 2017-2022 Post-doc perioperative cardiac care at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel 2017-2020 Residency Internal Medicine at the University Hospital Basel, Prof. Stefano Bassetti 2014-2017 PhD candidate at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Prof. Christian Müller 2013-2014 Fellow and MD candidate at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Prof. Christian Müller 2013-2013 Study coordinator for the ISCHEMIA trial, Medical University Innsbruck 2010-2013 Speaker at the “Institut für Studentenkurse”, Innsbruck, group and private tutoring Approved research projects Basel Incidence, Patient Characteristics, Pathophysiology, and Outcome of Perioperative Myocardial Injury After Non-cardiac Surgery (BASEL-PMI, NCT02573532); prospective pragmatic observational study [2014] Reliability of cardiac troponins for the diagnosis of myocardial infarction in the presence of rhabdomyolysis; retrospective cohort study [2016] Impact of implementation of a routine screening and response system for perioperative myocardial injuries/infarctions after non-cardiac surgery (Impact-PMI); retrospective case-cohort study [2019] Implementation of a clinical screening and response system for perioperative myocardial infarction/injury after noncardiac surgery (Implement-PMI); prospective multicenter before-after comparison, pilot study [2021] Continuous Monitoring of Vital Signs for Improved Phenotyping of Perioperative Myocardial Infarction/Injury after noncardiac surgery in high risk patients (PMI-VITAL); prospective observational study [2022] Evaluating large language models in chronic heart failure – Bridging the Bytes in Heart Failure (LLM in CHF): prospective in silico + questionnaire [2025] Ermittlung individualisierter Referenzwerte für NT-proBNP bei Patienten mit chronischer Herzinsuffizienz (d4Health): retrospective cohort study [2025] Prospective, Randomized open label Trial of Telemedically Assisted optimization for Heart Failure Patients Before Cardiac Surgery to improve perioperative outcome (PREPARE-HF); randomized controlled open-label management trial [2025] Supervision of junior researchers Master students Luca Osswald, Christina Hollenstein, Lukas Bock, Ekrem Temizel, Noemi Glarner, Saranya Thambipillai, Christina Hollenstein MD candidates Johanna Gückel, Reka Hidvegi, Deborah Müller, Lorraine Sazgary, Matthias Gugala, Rebecca Meister, Samantha Weder PhD candidates Noemi Glarner, MD; Mirjam Pargger, MD For more information, please see my resume in PDF format