Dr. Peter Jüni

Dr. Peter Jüni is the Director of the AHRC at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital and a Professor at the Department of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He is a member of the International Scientific Collaboration (ISC) at EXCITE International.


Dr. Peter Jüni, MD, FESC, is the Director of the AHRC at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital and a Professor at the Department of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bern in Switzerland, completed his training in internal medicine at various hospitals in Switzerland, and was a Research Fellow at the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol, UK.

Prior to joining St. Michael’s Hospital, Dr. Jüni was the Director of the Institute of Primary Health Care and Professor of Primary Care and Clinical Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bern in Switzerland. He held previous appointments as Director of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern and Founding Director of CTU Bern, the University’s clinical trials unit.

Dr. Jüni is internationally renowned for his methodological work and for his clinical research on the management of cardiovascular and musculoskeletal disorders.

A Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, he has had leading roles in several major cardiovascular trials, including SIRTAX, LEADERS, FAME 2 and MATRIX, served as a member of several task forces of the European Society of Cardiology, and co-authored the European guidelines on myocardial revascularization and on the management of acute myocardial infarction.

Dr. Jüni has published over 270 papers, many of these widely cited. In 2015 he was recognized as Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters in view of several papers published in the last decade that ranked among the top 1% most cited in their field.


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Dr. Peter Jüni

MD, FESC, is the Director of the AHRC at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Professor at the Department of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation at the University of Toronto

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