Senior physician of internal medicine at Klinik Arlesheim (CH) & President of the Swiss Hospital at Home Society
Co-founder of Hospitales Association
Dr Severin Pöchtrager is a senior physician specialising in internal medicine at Arlesheim Clinic in Basel-Landschaft and also serves as the president of the Swiss Hospital at Home Society.
He studied medicine in Vienna and completed his training in general internal medicine at the Kantonsspital Baselland, the Arlesheim Clinic and other hospitals in Austria.
Dr Pöchtrager is a co-founder of the Arlesheim Academy for Anthroposophic Medicine, which is dedicated to integrating holistic principles into medical education and practice. Driven by a commitment to transforming healthcare, he initiated the Hospital at Home programme at the Arlesheim Clinic, which provides acute care services in patients' homes, reflecting a growing movement towards patient-centred models of care.
As part of his transformative work, Dr Pöchtrager is also a Loop Fellow, a programme focused on building effective frameworks for organisational change in healthcare. He also co-founded Hospitales, an association that provides operational support to hospitals in implementing hospital-at-home services, helping them to adopt innovative care models that improve patient outcomes.
Through his various leadership roles, Dr Pöchtrager has been instrumental in transforming acute care in Switzerland and advocating for the wider adoption of home-based healthcare solutions.
Dr Severin Pöchtrager is a senior physician specialising in internal medicine at Arlesheim Clinic in Basel-Landschaft and also serves as the president of the Swiss Hospital at Home Society.
He studied medicine in Vienna and completed his training in general internal medicine at the Kantonsspital Baselland, the Arlesheim Clinic and other hospitals in Austria.
Dr Pöchtrager is a co-founder of the Arlesheim Academy for Anthroposophic Medicine, which is dedicated to integrating holistic principles into medical education and practice. Driven by a commitment to transforming healthcare, he initiated the Hospital at Home programme at the Arlesheim Clinic, which provides acute care services in patients' homes, reflecting a growing movement towards patient-centred models of care.
As part of his transformative work, Dr Pöchtrager is also a Loop Fellow, a programme focused on building effective frameworks for organisational change in healthcare. He also co-founded Hospitales, an association that provides operational support to hospitals in implementing hospital-at-home services, helping them to adopt innovative care models that improve patient outcomes.
Through his various leadership roles, Dr Pöchtrager has been instrumental in transforming acute care in Switzerland and advocating for the wider adoption of home-based healthcare solutions.
