About me

Sebastian Sahli

Sebastian Sahli

Intensivist and clinical researcher.
Institute of Intensive Care Medicine,
University Hospital Zurich,
Switzerland

My clinical work is in intensive care and anaesthesia. My research centres on coagulation and transfusion management — how we measure haemostasis at the bedside, and how those measurements should change what we actually give patients.

Most of it draws on large clinical datasets: outcomes after extracorporeal life support, the effect of direct oral anticoagulants on viscoelastic testing, factor-based coagulation management, and perioperative risk. Before returning to Zurich I spent 2025–26 as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Anesthesia Research Excellence, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School.

Get in touch — sahlisebastian@gmail.com

CV

Curriculum Vitae

Sebastian Sahli, MSc, Dr. med. — anaesthesiologist and intensivist. Clinical work in cardiac and neuro anaesthesia and intensive care; research on extracorporeal life support, coagulation management and perioperative outcomes.

Positions

  • From Oct 2026 Assistant Physician
    Institute of Intensive Care Medicine,
    University Hospital Zurich
  • 2025 – 2026 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Center for Anesthesia Research Excellence, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine,
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  • 2024 Assistant Physician
    Centre for Intensive Care Medicine,
    Cantonal Hospital Winterthur
  • 2019 – 2023 Assistant Physician & Research Fellow
    Institute of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Zurich
    Cardiac anaesthesia, cardiac critical care, paediatric and neuro anaesthesia; research fellowship 2020–2021
  • 2017 – 2019 Assistant Physician
    Institute of Anaesthesiology,
    Waid City Hospital Zurich
  • 2015 – 2017 Assistant Physician
    Clinic for Internal Medicine,
    Lindenhof Group Bern
  • 2011 – 2016 Research Student
    Research Laboratory for Restorative Neuroscience,
    Inselspital Bern University Hospital
    Master's thesis and doctoral dissertation

Education & Qualifications

  • 2024Specialist in Anaesthesiology
    Swiss Medical Association
  • 2016Dr. med.
    Medical Faculty, University of Bern
  • 2014Physician, Swiss Federal Diploma
    University of Bern

Certifications

  • Sonography in intensive care and emergency medicine, 2023
  • ERC PALS Provider, 2022
  • ATLS, 2020
  • ERC ALS Provider, 2016

Selected Presentations

  • IARS Annual Meeting, Montréal, 2026 — High-flow nasal oxygen therapy for advanced upper endoscopy in high-risk patients: a randomised controlled trial
  • PostGraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology, New York, 2025 — Borderline anaemia and postoperative outcomes in women undergoing anaesthesia: a retrospective cohort study
  • ASA Anesthesiology Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 2025 — Haemodynamic changes over the transition from operating room to intensive care unit and effects on 30-day mortality (oral presentation, Critical Care)

Languages

German (native), French, English.

Selected Work

Selected Work

  • POLARIS — Resources

    Investigator resources for POLARIS, an international prospective study of ARDS inflammatory phenotypes. polaris-icu.org/resources ↗

Publications

Publications

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