Personal Information: Michael J. Thali

 

Michael J. Thali Position: MD, MBA, director
Email: michael.thali@virtopsy.com
Phone: 0041 31 631 84 11
   
   

 

Full Professor and Managing Director Institute of Forensic Medicine, University Bern (since 2006)

Executive MBA at the University St. Gallen (2003 - 2005)
Habilitation in Forensic Medicine (2003): "VIRTOPSY: 3D Body Surface and Body Surface and Body Internal Scanning Body using Photogrammetry-based 3D Optical Scanners, CT, MRI, Micro-CT, Micro-MRI and Synthetic Body Model Development in Forensic Medicine" at the University of Bern, Switzerland, 2003.

Board certification as a Forensic Pathologist (2000).
Medical dissertation at the University of Bern:
Bi-lateral Hip Total Prosthesis Implantatic in one Operative Procedure
(Prof. Dr. med. Reinhold Ganz, Orthopedic Clinic, University of Berne, 1999).

Medical Education

  • Institute of Forensic Medicine
    University of Bern, Switzerland
    Prof. Richard Dirnhofer, MD, director
    (Jul. 2002 - 2005)
  • Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
    Rockville / Washington DC, USA
    AbuBakr A. Marzouk, MD, COL, USAF, MC, FS
    (Jul. 2001 - Jun. 2002)
  • Ballistics and Detonics Laboratory
    Defence Procurement Agency, Thun, Switzerland
    Dr. sc. forens. Beat P. Kneubuehl, Scientific Director
    (Jan. 2001 - Jun. 2001)
  • Department of Neuroradiology
    University of Bern, Switzerland
    Prof. G. Schroth, MD, director
    (Jul. 2000 - Dec. 2000)
  • Institute of Diagnostic Radiology
    University of Bern, Switzerland
    Prof. P. Vock, director
    (Jan. 1999 - Jun. 2000)
  • Institute of Forensic Medicine
    University of Bern, Switzerland
    Prof. R. Dirnhofer, director
    (Dec. 1995 - Dec. 1998)

Guest Physician

  • Institute of Forensic Medicine
    University of Salzburg / Linz, Austria
    (Oct. 1998)
  • Institute of Forensic Medicine
    University of Vienna, Austria
    (Oct. 1996)

Affiliations

  • Swiss Forensic Society
  • Swiss Society of Criminologists
  • German Society of Forensic Medicine
  • European Academy of Forensic Science
  • ENFSI European Network of Forensic Science Institutes
  • European Congress of Radiology (ECR)
  • American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS - Fellow)
  • International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
  • UK Forensic Society
  • SWISS MAMBA (Swiss Organisation of Medical Doctors with Executive MBA)