Curriculum Vitae
Experience
Attending Physician
Infectious Diseases Service — Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)Lausanne
- Departmental responsibility for tuberculosis, including the clinical management of TB and MDR-TB
- Coordination of internal TB guidelines and liaison with public health authorities
- Inpatient and outpatient infectious diseases consultations
- Supervision of residents; rotations in the isolation ward and septic surgery
Field Epidemiologist
Communicable Diseases — Cantonal Doctor's Office VaudLausanne
- Conducting outbreak investigation and coordinating response and control
- Communicable Diseases Surveillance
- Epidemic Intelligence and rapid risk evaluation
- Technical focal point for a tuberculosis project submitted by The Union
- Development of smart data collection tools for outbreak investigation and response
- Modernized the Cantonal mandatory reporting system for infectious diseases, transitioning it to a fully paperless system
Medical Advisor
Terre des HommesLausanne
Advising on prevention for expatriate staff, assessing medical fitness for field deployment, and providing guidance when health problems arise during missions.
Resident Physician
Infectious Disease Service — Lausanne University HospitalLausanne
Clinical work specializing in complex infectious diseases, including infections in immunocompromised patients, bone and joint infections, and general infectious disease consultations. Expertise in outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) and specialized outpatient clinics for HIV, STIs, zoonoses, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis.
Short-term Consultant
World Health OrganizationTechnical support for the development of a digital adaptation kit (DAK) for IMCI in humanitarian contexts. Modeling of fever management algorithms.
Visiting Physician
University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK)Kigali
Participation in clinical activities of the Department of Internal Medicine. General infectious disease/HIV consultations. Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology.
Digital Health Physician-Scientist
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health — Lausanne University / Swiss Tropical and Public Health InstituteLausanne / Rwanda
Research Physician for the DYNAMIC project, aimed at improving quality of care for children in low-resource settings by implementing novel dynamic clinical algorithms and point-of-care tests.
Chief Resident Physician
Tropical and Travel Medicine Polyclinic — Lausanne UniversityLausanne
Clinical: Supervision of junior residents. Research: Co-Investigator for EFFORT study, Clinical content manager for Fever Travel App.
Resident Physician
Tropical and Travel Medicine Polyclinic — Lausanne UniversityLausanne
Pre-travel advice and vaccination. Post-travel outpatient clinic. Development of fever management CDSS.
Resident Physician
CHUV — Lausanne University HospitalLausanne
Internal Medicine, Sub-intensive care, Geriatrics. 6-month rotation in Infectious Diseases.
Junior Project Officer
CUAMM — Doctors With AfricaLuanda, Angola
Volunteer work on diabetes/hypertension pilot project among TB patients in Luanda, Angola.
Resident Physician
Hopital FribourgeoisFribourg
Clinical tasks in Internal Medicine. Rotations in rehab, geriatrics, ED, subintensive care.
Education
Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
University of Glasgow / Worshipful Society of Apothecaries (UK)
Passed with distinction after 9-month hybrid DTM&H course.
PGCert in Data Science, Technology and Innovation
University of Edinburgh (UK)
Postgraduate Certificate covering data science fundamentals, technology, and innovation.
Specialisation in Infectious Diseases
Swiss Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education (CH)
Swiss federal specialist title in Infectious Diseases.
Doctorate in Medicine (MD)
Lausanne University (CH)
Thesis: "Should we treat Blastocystis sp.?" — iris.unil.ch/handle/iris/213176
Specialisation in General Internal Medicine
Swiss Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education (CH)
Swiss federal specialist title in General Internal Medicine.
Master in Human Medicine and Surgery
Universita degli Studi dell'Insubria (IT)
Six-year Master's degree in Human Medicine and Surgery.
Research Funding
Lung Ultrasound for the Detection of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Using Expert and AI-Guided Interpretation
Swiss Lung Association — CHF 50,000Prospective external validation study, Tajikistan
- Principal Investigator, with Dr D. V. Flury (St. Claraspital Basel)
- Partner institutions: Avicenna Tajik State Medical University, Dushanbe, and the National Centre of Tuberculosis, Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery
- Selected among 4 of 17 submitted projects; full requested amount awarded
Selected Publications
- Kulinkina AV, Rwandarwacu VP, Habakurama J, Cobuccio L et al. Effectiveness of a digital clinical decision support algorithm for guiding antibiotic prescribing in pediatric outpatient care in Rwanda: a pragmatic cluster non-randomized controlled trial. PLOS Medicine 2026;23:e1004692. doi
- Cobuccio LG et al. medAL-suite: a software solution for creating and deploying complex clinical decision support algorithms. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2025;25:249. doi
- Monnais L, Cobuccio LG, Crisinel P, Filali A et al. Beyond elimination: reframing measles vaccination strategies. BMJ Global Health 2026;11:e021240. doi
- Cassini A*, Cobuccio L* et al. Adapting response to a measles outbreak in a context of high vaccination and breakthrough cases: Vaud, Switzerland, January to March 2024. Eurosurveillance 2024;29(22):2400275. *shared first authorship doi
- Trottet C, Vogels T, Keitel K, Kulinkina AV, Tan R, Cobuccio L et al. Modular Clinical Decision Support Networks (MoDN) — updatable, interpretable, and portable predictions for evolving clinical environments. PLOS Digital Health 2023;2(7):e0000108. doi
- Cobuccio LG et al. Should we treat Blastocystis sp.? A double-blind placebo-controlled randomized pilot trial. Journal of Travel Medicine 2023;30(1):taac143. doi
- Camprubí-Ferrer D, Cobuccio L et al. Clinical evaluation of BioFire® multiplex-PCR panel for acute undifferentiated febrile illnesses in travellers: a prospective multicenter study. Journal of Travel Medicine 2023;30(3):taad041. doi
Preprint
- Boldi M, Abdulghafor N, Brouillet R, Cobuccio L, Suttels V, Lamoth F et al. A statistical model for tuberculosis diagnosis to guide multi-test strategies and clinical decision-making. Research Square 2025. doi
Under Review
- Cobuccio LG, Moser K, Jacot D, Kapel N, Tsaousis AD, Galperine T. Clinical significance of Dientamoeba fragilis and Blastocystis: lessons from clinical trials, cohort studies, and faecal microbiota transplantation — a narrative review. Clinical Microbiology and Infection — invited review, under review.
- Cobuccio LG. Beyond the Chatbot: agentic artificial intelligence and the future of infectious disease practice. Clinical Infectious Diseases — Viewpoint, under review.
Full list on the publications page, or on ORCID.
Awards & Certifications
CTH — Certificate of Travel Health
International Society of Travel MedicineCertified body of knowledge in Travel Medicine.
Tropical Medicine and International Health
Medicus Mundi — Universita di BresciaThree weeks course, 105 hours, 50 CME credits.