Management Committees: Departmental Management

In accordance with a decentralised approach, each department is led by a head of department, assisted by a management committee. Their role is to ensure that the following are properly applied in the department and its services:

• legal and regulatory provisions
• decisions by the Council of State and board of directors
• decisions by the executive committee and senior management.

Within the framework of the resources allocated to it, each management committee:

• adopts the draft revenue and expenditure budget for its department and its services
• ensures proper implementation of the budget voted
• supervises the management of specific projects
• adopts the activity report and accounts.

In 2017, each management committee met a dozen times; they were chaired by:

• Prof. Anne-Françoise Allaz, head of the internal medicine, rehabilitation and geriatrics department (10 sessions)
• Prof. Jean-Michel Aubry, head of the mental health and psychiatry department (12 sessions)
• Prof. Christoph Becker, head of the imaging and medical informatics department (8 sessions) 
• Prof. Dominique Belli, head of the child and adolescent department until the end of September 2017, then Prof. Alain Gervaix from October 2017 (10 sessions)  
• Prof. Pierre-Yves Dietrich, head of the  oncology department (10 sessions)
• Prof. Jean-Michel Gaspoz, head of the community medicine, primary care and emergency department (9 sessions)
• Didier Gevaux, director of the operations department (11 sessions)
• Prof. Denis Hochstrasser, head of the genetic medicine, laboratory and pathology department until the end of November 2017, then Prof. Laura Rubbia-Brandt from December 2017 (5 sessions)
• Prof. Olivier Irion, head of the gynaecology and obstetrics department until the end of September 2017, then Prof. Patrick Petignat from October 2017 (10 sessions)
• Prof. Pierre-Yves Martin, head of the medical specialties department (8 sessions)
• Prof. Philippe Morel, head of the surgery department (9 sessions)
• Prof. Armin Schnider, head of the clinical neurosciences department (9 sessions)
• Prof. Martin Tramèr, head of the anaesthesiology, pharmacology and intensive care department (10 sessions)
• Dr Gilbert Zulian, head of the rehabilitation and palliative medicine department (10 sessions).