Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Korte is a hematologist, internist, and laboratory physician. Born in Bonn, Germany, he received his medical training and degree at the University of Bochum. He completed his residency in internal medicine in Recklinghausen and in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he moved in 1990. There, he continued his training in internal medicine, anesthesiology, and laboratory medicine before moving to Denver, Colorado (USA), to complete a fellowship in hematology/oncology and coagulation research. He also worked at Denver Health Hospital, which includes the Denver Trauma Center.

After returning to St. Gallen in 1998, he was appointed lecturer in hematology at the University of Bern in 2002 and professor of medicine in 2010. In 2012, he chaired the 56th GTH Annual Meeting in St. Gallen and served on the GTH Board from 2019 to 2023. From 2017 to 2021, he was president of the Swiss Union for Laboratory Medicine (SULM). He also led the hematology training program at Kantonsspital St. Gallen for many years.

From 2012 to 2025, he served as Medical Director and CEO of the Center for Laboratory Medicine (ZLM), which included the hematology clinic as well as the Center for Hemostasis and Hemophilia St. Gallen, which he founded. Already in 2007, he initiated the annual conference “Haemostasis in Critical Care – HICC” in St. Gallen. Since July 2025, he has been Senior Consultant at ZLM and Visiting Researcher at Empa – the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in St. Gallen.

He is a full member of the Swiss Societies of Hematology and Laboratory Medicine, the GTH, ISTH, and ASH. His personal research interests include perioperative and periprocedural coagulation research and therapy, “classical” hematology, and the application of automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence in clinical practice and laboratory medicine. He is the author of more than 150 scientific publications and book chapters.