IFCC Executive Board: 2012-2014 Biographies
Priv. - Doz. Doctor Thomas BRINKMANN , Corporate
Representative
Corporate Representative
Priv. - Doz. Doctor Thomas BRINKMANN
Unilabs
12 Place Cornavin
1201 Geneva
Switzerland
email: IFCC@unilabs.com
Thomas Brinkmann joined Unilabs in 2011 as
corporate Chief Medical Officer, based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. Brinkmann graduated from the University of Bielefeld,
Germany, and holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the same university.
In 1991/92 he worked at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France, and
from 1992-2003 as senior assistant at the Institute of Laboratory
and Transfusion Medicine of the Heart and Diabetes Centre
Nordrhein-Westfalen in Bad Oeynhausen, a university hospital of the
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. In this position he was senior
assistant of the medical laboratory. He gained experience in
clinical chemistry, immunodiagnostics, haematology,
immunohaematology, microbiology, serology, blood banking and
molecular biology.
He qualified as Clinical Chemist and since 1999 he has been
registered as European Clinical Chemist (EurClinChem). Since 2001
he is associate professor for clinical biochemistry at the Medical
Faculty of the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany.
In 2003 Dr. Brinkmann decided to continue his career in the
industrial sector and joined Beckman Coulter's European headquarter
in Nyon, Switzerland as head of the EMEAI Scientific Group. In this
position, he directed a team of physicians and scientists in
Europe, Middle East, Africa and India for scientific marketing,
commercial support and lobbying.
Dr. Brinkmann has actively collaborated with many IFCC
Committees and Working Groups and he served as the Corporate
Representative on the IFCC Executive Board from 2009-2011.
With his experience in research and routine diagnostics in
laboratory medicine, in scientific marketing of a global diagnostic
company and in a commercial diagnostic organisation he will
continue to serve for the next three years as a link between IFCC
and Diagnostic Industry.