Dr. Blanchard-Rohner is specialised in General Paediatrics (FMH Paediatrics in 2014) and in Immunology (FMH Immunology/Allergology in 2018). She also completed a Clinical Fellowship in Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Children’s Hospital during 2018/2019, as well as an advanced course in Vaccinology in Annecy (France) in 2024. Currently, she heads the Paediatric Unit of Immunology, Vaccinology, and Rheumatology at the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG).

She holds a PhD in Immunology and Vaccinology from the University of Oxford, UK. She conducts several studies assessing the immune response to vaccination in immunosuppressed children and has led a phase I/II/III RCT to evaluate the immune response to a new vaccine against whooping cough in adults. She is also involved in several research projects focused on better understanding the syndrome of periodic fever with aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and adenitis.

In 2020, she completed her privat-docent thesis on vaccination in immunosuppressed children, which was published in Frontiers in Immunology. Additionally, she co-authored a book with Prof. Laure Pittet on the vaccination of immunosuppressed children.

Read more about her: https://www.hug.ch/enfants-ados/vaccinologie-pediatrique/dre-geraldine-blanchard-rohner