Petra Schweinhardt
Prof Dr. med Petra Schweinhardt, PhD M Chiro Med Petra Schweinhardt is the Head of the Department of Chiropractic Medicine at the Balgrist University Hospital and Professor of Chiropractic Medicine at the University of Zurich (UZH). Her clinical research is focused on outcomes in patients with musculoskeletal pain and potential predictors of treatment outcome. In her experimental work, Dr. Schweinhardt investigates how sensitization in the central nervous system contributes to musculoskeletal pain. Methods she uses include psychophysics, kinematic modeling, brain and soon spinal cord imaging. Before moving to Switzerland, Dr. Schweinhardt held an Associate Professorship and a Canada Research Chair Tier II at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where her research was centered on cerebral pain processing and modulation as well as brain alterations in chronic pain patients. Dr. Schweinhardt earned her medical degree at Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany and a PhD in the Neurosciences at the University of Oxford, England.