Marcel Stoeckle, MD, MIH graduated from Medical School at University of Basel in 1995 and received his MD in 1999 for his thesis about TNF-α promotor and malaria-morbidity. After specialization in Internal Medicine in 2004, Marcel Stoeckle built up an HIV clinic in Ifakara, rural Tanzania. This was the first HIV clinic at a district hospital in Tanzania, which dispensed ART’s. The at the same time founded HIV cohort is still running. In 2007 Marcel Stoeckle returned to Basel, where he worked at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute as well as at the department of Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology at the University Hospital, Basel. In 2008 Marcel Stoeckle finished his formation in Infectious Diseases with the board exam and in 2010 followed the board exam in Tropical Medicine. 2012 Marcel Stoeckle received his Master in Internation Health for the thesis on Rift Valley Fever in South-Central Tanzania. Marcel Stoeckle is an active member of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS) and the actual chairman of it’s Clinical and Laboratory Committee. He is as well a member of a working group of the Swiss commission on sexual health and member of the Swiss expert group of Travel Medicine. Within the framework of the SHCS he is co-author of many publications in the field of HIV and Hepatitis C. Currently Marcel Stoeckle leads the HIV clinic at the University Hospital Basel.
