Luca Gabutti

Luca Gabutti is the Director of the Institute of Family Medicine at USI and Head of the Family Medicine Service at the Regional Hospital of Lugano, Ospedale Italiano site, which is part of the Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale (EOC); the network of public hospitals in Italian-speaking Switzerland (https://www.eoc.ch).

Since 2017, he has been full professor at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences of the Università della Svizzera italiana USI; the university of the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. He studied human medicine at the University of Lausanne and graduated in 1990. He obtained the MD degree at the University of Bern in 1996 and the PD and the Professorship at the University of Lausanne in 2006 and 2012. The specialties in Internal medicine and nephrology were obtained in 1997 and 1999 respectively.

After having taken care of a dialysis unit and a nephrological outpatient clinic at the Regional Hospital in Locarno, he reoriented himself toward Internal Medicine becoming the head of the Internal Medicine department in the same hospital and later moving to Bellinzona in 2016 to continue in the same role, and finally took on the responsibility of Family Medicine in 2024.

Initially captivated by electrolyte disorders, he began his research in this area and later expanded his interests to include cardiovascular risk factors, hypertension, vascular stiffness, hospital data networking, and the quality and appropriateness of care (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603720688).

As Vice Dean for Education, he represents USI on the Federal Commission for Human Medicine Examinations and serves as Chair of USI’s Study and Examination Committees.

Married with Paola he appreciates spending time at home and with their three daughters.

Loving bees and biodiversity, as a hobby he keeps an apiary.