Alexander Kutz

Privatdozent | Stv. Chefarzt | Klinischer Forscher | Facharzt für Allgemeine Innere Medizin | Facharzt für Endokrinologie und Diabetologie | Master of Clinical Science | Master of Public Health

Basel, Basel, Switzerland

About

Alexander Kutz, MD, MPH, MSc, is an internist and endocrinologist whose scientific work centers on health services research using real-world data. His research interests include the development of integrative healthcare models to improve care transitions in hospital settings—leveraging data from a Swiss healthcare claims database—as well as outcomes research focused on older, frail, and multimorbid adults. His primary scientific focus lies in the clinical epidemiology of vulnerable patients with metabolic and endocrine disorders. Dr. Kutz earned his medical degree from the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology & Diabetology. He holds Master's degrees in Science from Dresden International University and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he also completed a Master of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness in 2021. From 2021 to 2022, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, supported by an advanced postdoc mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2025, he received his Venia Docendi (Privatdozent, Associate Professor) from the University of Basel. Since 2025, Dr. Kutz has served as Deputy Chief Physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at Kantonsspital Aarau.

Experience

  • Privatdozent at Medizinische Fakultät | Universität Basel
    Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Kantonsspital Aarau AG (Aarau, Aargau, Switzerland)
    • Leitender Arzt und Stv Chefarzt Allgemeine Innere Medizin und Hausarztmedizin (AIM)
      Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Oberarzt mbF Allgemeine Innere Medizin
      Jan 2023 - Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Mass General Brigham
    Dec 2020 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics Department of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School

  • Oberarzt für Innere Medizin, Postdoc at Kantonsspital Aarau AG
    Jan 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Assistenzarzt für Endokrinologie, Diabetologie und Metabolismus at Universitätsspital Basel (USB)
    Jul 2018 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos