Eva Caroline Gebhard

PD Dr. med. Eva Caroline Gebhard, MD

Caroline Gebhard is a trained intensive care physician and anesthesiologist at the University Hospital and the University of Basel.

She obtained her MD at the University of Tübingen (Germany) and underwent clinical training in cardiac anesthesiology, echocardiography, and intensive care medicine at the Montreal Heart Institute (QC, Canada), the Charité University Hospital Berlin (Germany), the Triemli Hospital Zurich (CH) and the University Hospital Basel (CH).

During her training, she obtained board certification in advanced adult perioperative transesophageal echocardiography (National Board of Echocardiography, USA), transthoracic echocardiography (European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging) and is an official course leader in point-of care ultrasound of the Swiss Society of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Her research focuses on gender differences and personalized medicine in critically ill patients.

This includes the ultrasound assessment of cardiac and extracardiac signs of venous congestion to initiate and guide individual, goal-directed therapy.