Dr. Andres Bircher is Dr. Maximilian Bircher-Benner's grandson. After medical studies in Zurich and Geneva, he spent ten years as a hospital physician in anesthesiology, intensive and emergency care surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry and psychotherapy. As a specialist at Zurich university hospitals at senior level, he performed training analysis with Brian Kenny, head physician of a hospital for internal medicine in Zurich. He received study and specialist training in TCM and acupuncture in Vienna, neuraltherapy, manual therapy and classical homeopathy, as well as training as a German specialist in balneotherapy, climatology and physical medicine. He is currently medical director of the Bircher-Benner Medical Centre.l