Personal Information: Michael J. Thali

 

Michael J. Thali Position: director
Email: michael.thali@virtopsy.com
Phone: +41 (0)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)

 

Board certification in forensic pathology in 2000

Medical Education

  • Institute of Forensic Medicine
    University of Bern, Switzerland
    Prof. R. Dirnhofer, MD, director
    (Jul 2002 – Dec 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. B.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, MD, director
    (Jan 1999 – Jun 2000)
  • Institute of Forensic Medicine
    University of Bern, Switzerland
    Prof. R. Dirnhofer, MD, director
    (Dec 1995 – Dec 1998)

 

Habilitation in Forensic Medicine at the University of Bern, Switzerland
"VIRTOPSY: 3D 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."
(University of Bern, Switzerland, 2003)

 

Dissertation at the University of Bern, Switzerland
"Bi-lateral Hip Total Prosthesis Implantatic in one Operative Procedure."
(Prof. R. Ganz, MD, Orthopedic Clinic, University of Bern, 1999)

 

Guest Physician

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

Affiliations

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