Dr. med. Barbara Blöchlinger-Wegmann
Head of Obstetrics, Gynaecology Department
Spital Zollikerberg
Departement für Frauen-, Kinder- und Geburtsmedizin
Frauenklinik
Trichtenhauserstrasse 20
8125 Zollikerberg
Departement für Frauen-, Kinder- und Geburtsmedizin
Frauenklinik
Trichtenhauserstrasse 20
8125 Zollikerberg
Specialist title
Specialist in gynaecology and obstetrics
Specialist title in surgical gynaecology and obstetrics
Work Focus
- Holistic counselling in prenatal diagnostics incl. prenatal ultrasound diagnostics
- Surgical and manual obstetrics
- Maternal medicine
- Multiple pregnancies
Career Path
- Since 2021
Chief physician in the obstetrics department at Zollikerberg Hospital - 2020
Head physician for obstetrics at Zollikerberg Hospital - 2016 - 2019
Head physician for obstetrics GZO Hospital Wetzikon - Since 2017
Tutor of the Swiss Society for Ultrasound in Gynaecology and Obstetrics (SGUMGG) - Since 2016
"DEGUM I" certificate from the German Society for Ultrasound (DEGUM) - 2013 - 2015
Senior consultant at the GZO Spital Wetzikon gynaecological clinic, head of obstetrics - 2012
Senior gynaecologist at the GZO Wetzikon Hospital - 2011
Senior consultant gynaecologist at Uster Hospital - 2010
FMH specialist title for gynaecology and obstetrics - 2010 - 2011
Senior consultant in obstetrics at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ) - 2004 - 2010
Assistant doctor in the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics USZ - 2005 - 2007
Training for a certificate of competence in psychosomatic medicine, including insight into medical hypnosis and body therapy - 2002 - 2003
Assistant doctor in the Department of Surgery at Zollikerberg Hospital - 2002
State examination and doctorate. Dissertation on "Pregnancy ultrasound in Switzerland - a representative national survey" - 1998 - 2002
Studied human medicine at the University of Zurich - 1996 - 1998
Propaedeutic training in human medicine, University of Fribourg
Memberships
- Swiss Medical Association (FMH)
- Swiss Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (SGGG)
- Swiss Society for Ultrasound in Gynaecology and Obstetrics (SGUMGG)
- German Society for Ultrasound (DEGUM)
- Association of Swiss Assistant and Senior Physicians (VSAO)
- Medical Association of the Zurich Oberland (AGZO)
Blog article
Latest news
Caesarean birth with a window drape: see your baby from the first breath
Thanks to the window drape, parents can see and experience their child from the very first second of the caesarean section. This unique moment of closeness and bonding brings families together from the very beginning. Dr Barbara Blöchlinger-Wegmann, our Head of Obstetrics at the Women's Clinic, tells us more.