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Dr Frank Rühli

MBBS, MD (= "Dr. med.",University of Zurich, Switzerland)
ECFMG -certificate ("US-Medical license" step 1/2)
Lecturer in Anatomy / Biological Anthropology

PhD Candidate in Anatomical Sciences

Frank has published 1 book (MD thesis), three book chapters and full conference papers, authored or co-authored five full peer-reviewed papers, ten peer reviewed letters / case reports or non-peer reviewed full papers as well as 29 peer -reviewed published or unpublished conference abstracts. Frank is an active member of Clinical Paleopathology Unit, Orthopedic University Clinic Balgrist, Zurich. He is also a Research Fellow of MRI Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide and a Research Fellow of Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Zurich

His main projects / research topics are:

Paleopathology
Studies on human mummies.
Microevolution of the human vertebral column(PhD Project)
Hormonal influence on human microevolution
Visualisation of paleopathologic and taphonomic changes on skeletons and mummies by using "state-of-the-art"-radiology techniques(Dr. Böni, Orthopedic University Clinic Balgrist, Zurich)
Aboriginal community health survey (Department of Anatomical Sciences, University of Adelaide)
Reliability of osteometric measurements(CSIRO student research scheme, Adelaide)
Tarsal coalitions: prevalence and diagnostic assessment(MRI Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital and Department of Anatomical Sciences, University of Adelaide)
Scientific write-up of selected cases of the pathology reference series "Galler" (currently kept at the Natural History Museum Basel, Switzerland)

Main current scientific collaborators:

Prof. B.Rothschild, University of Akron, Ohio, USA
Prof. I. Hershkovitz, Dep. of Anatomy and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Prof. M. Schultz, Department of Anatomy, University of Göttingen, Germany
Prof. B. Rüttimann, Insititute for the History of Medicine, University of Zurich
Dr. T. Böni, Orthopedic University Clinic Balgrist, Zurich
Dr. C. Lanz, Insitute for Legal Medicine, University of Zurich
Dr. J.Taylor, MRI Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide
Dr. L.B. Solomon, Dept. of Orthopaedics, Alice Springs Hospital, Alice Springs, Australia
Mag. M. Bohunova, Anthopological Insitute, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Recent Publications:

Book, Book chapters, Conference Proceedings:

1. Rühli F.J. (1998) "Paläopathologische Untersuchungen an einer altägyptischen Mumie aus den Naturwissenschaftlichen Sammlungen der Stadt Winterthur" [Paleopathological examinations of an Ancient Egyptian Mummy from the Museum of Natural Sciences, Winterthur]
   Juris Druck und Verlag, Dietikon, Switzerland, 1998, ISBN 3-26005421-9
   
2. Rühli F.J. (2000)"Aus dem Museum für Völkerkunde, Burgdorf: Erste Ergebnisse der naturwissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen an der altägyptischen Mumie" in: Burgdorfer Jahrbuch, Haller und Jenzer, Burgdorf, Switzerland, pp.116-118, ISBN 3-9521748-0-7
3. Rühli F.J., Lanz C, Ulrich-Bochsler S., Hesse H., Schultz M. (2000) "Erste Ergebnisse bei der Darstellung paläopathologischer Knochenläsionen mittels Multislice-CT" in Schultz M. et al. (eds), Proceedings Biannual Meeting of the German Society of Anthropology Potsdam 2000, Cuveiller Verlag, Göttingen , Germany, 2001, in press

Full length papers:

1. Rühli F.J., Lanz C., Ulrich-Bochsler S., Alt K.W (2002).
   "State-of-the-art Imaging in Paleopathology: Value of Multislice Computed Tomography to Visualize Doubtful Cranial Lesions."
   Intern J Osteoarcheol, 12 (5): 372-379, 2002
   
2. Rühli F.J., Henneberg M. (2002) "Are Hyperostosis frontalis Interna and leptin linked? A hypothetical approach about hormonal influence on human microevolution"
   Med Hypotheses, 58 (5): 378-381,
3. Rothschild B., Rühli F.J., Rothschild C.(2002)"Clues Apparently distinguishing Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia from Multiple Myeloma and Leukemia"
   Am J Hum Biol, 14 (4): 532-537, 2002
4. Rühli F.J., Hodler J., Böni T.(2002) "CT-guided Biopsy -A New Diagnostic Method for Paleopathological Research"
   Am J Phys Anthropol, 117(3): 272-275,
5. Rühli F.J., Böni T (2000). "Radiological and Physico-chemical Analysis of an Unusual Post Mortem Artefact in an Egyptian Mummy" J Paleopathol, 12: 63-70
6. Solomon L.B., Rühli F.J., Ferris L.,Taylor D.J., Pope R., Henneberg M (2002). “A Dissection and Computed Tomography Study of Tarsal Coalitions in 100 Cadaver Feet ”J Orthop Res: in press
7. Rühli F.J., Solomon LB, Henneberg M (2002) “High Prevalence of tarsal coalition and tarsal joint variants in a recent cadaver sample and its possible significance.”Clin Anat, in press
   

Short reports, letters and case reports in peer-reviewed journals:

1. Rühli F.J., Hilfiker P.R. (2001) "Metastasis of Thyroid Cancer to the Heart." Am J Roentgenol, 177: 474, 2001
2. Rothschild B., Ulrich-Bochsler S., Rühli F.J. (2001)"When a geode is not a geode: When LSMFT" Rheumatology, 40: 706-707, 2001
3. Rühli F.J., Böni T. (2000) "Radiological Aspects and Interpretation of Post Mortem Artefacts of Ancient Egyptian Mummies from Swiss Collections" Int J Osteoarchaeol 10: 153-157, 2000
4. Rühli F.J., Hotz G., Böni T.“The Galler Collection – A Little Known Historic Swiss Bone Pathology Reference Series.” Am J Phys Anthropol, in press
   

Full papers in non-peer reviewed journals / book chapters:

1. Rühli F.J., Henneberg M., Barrett R.J., Chur-Hansen A (2002).“Die Anthropologie als Teil eines holistischen Medizinstudiums”
   (Anthropology as part of an holistic medical curriculum) Bull Soc Suisse d’Anthrop, in press
   
2. Rühli F.J.(2002) "Diabetes Typ 2 und das Vererbungsrisiko" [Diabetes Type 2 and its genetic risk] PRISMA 3 (1): 10-11, 2002

3. Rühli F.J., Henneberg M. (2001)"Eine Hypothese zur hormonellen Beeinflussung menschlicher Microevolution: Leptin und Hyperostosis frontalis interna." [A hypothesis about the hormonal influence of human microevolution: leptin and hyperostosis frontalis interna] Bull Soc Suisse d'Anthrop, 7(1): 39-45,

4. Bohunova M, Rühli F.J.(2001) "Frühmittelalterliche tschechische Trepanationen evaluiert mittels Makroskopie, konventionellem Röntgen und hochauflösender Computertomographie- erste Resultate " Bull Soc Suisse d'Anthrop, in press

5. Rühli F.J., Böni T. (2001) "Radiologische Morphologie und Differentialdiagnostik von Oberflächenveränderungen (Periostreaktionen) am postcraniellen Skelett" [Radiologic appearance and differential diagnosis of periostal reactions on the postcranium]Bull Soc Suisse d'Anthrop, 7(2): 85-93, 2001

6. Rühli F.J., Schilitz A.(2000) "Deutschsprachige Sommerakademie als Chance für den schweizerischen anthropologischen Nachwuchs" [German Summer School as an opportunity for young Swiss Anthropologists] Bull Soc Suisse d'Anthrop, 7(1): 65-68,

7. Rühli F.J., Lanz C, Ulrich-Bochsler S (2000)"Darstellung schweizerischer mittelalterlicher Knochenläsionen mittels Multislice-CT" [Visualization of Swiss Medieval bone lesions by Multislice-CT] Bull Soc Suisse d'Anthrop, 7(1): 23-26, 2000

8. Lanz C., Rühli F.J (2000). "Vergleichende morphologische Untersuchungen zur Diagnostik von metastatischen Knochenläsionen an archälogischem Skelettmaterial: ein Beispiel" Bull Soc Suisse d'Anthrop, 7: 27-30

9. Rühli F.J., Böni T. (1999)"Aktuelle Mumienforschung der Arbeitsgruppe für klinische Paläopathologie - Universität Zürich" Bull Soc Suisse d'Anthrop. 5 : 1-10,