Thomas Baptiste-Weiss

Education:

B.S. - University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 2003
D.E.A. Health Industry Business Marketing and Management - Institut de management des industries de la santé, 2004
M1 Law and Political Science of Contemporary Oriental Asia - Université Lyon 2,
Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2005
M.A. Humanitarian Action and Development and International Law - The Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEUD, previously HEI), 2007
D.O. Diploma Osteopathy - Institut privé d’enseignement supérieure en ostéopathie de Paris (IPEO), 2008
C.A.S. Human Rights - Université de droit de Genève, 2009
C.A.S. Security Policy in European Context - Université de droit de Genève, 2009

Biography:

Thomas is a candidate MTS in Theology, with a concentration in Modern and Contemporary Theology based on ancient sources.

His interests include Intersectional analysis in Theology, Ecotheology, Theology of Health and Human Science, Transcendental Theology, Cosmology, Christology, sacred texts, sacred places, Sacred Arts, Scribes and sacred Scriptures, the world and civilizations, and Ignatian Spirituality.

Before pursuing his MTS, Thomas was an Integrative Health care practitioner in Geneva, Switzerland and Lyon, France. He was a trainee and clinical research assistant at the Édouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon. He is specialized in sexual and reproductive Health medicine, chronic pain, tropical medicine, epidemiology, and craniosacral pathology.
 
Thomas was also working during 18 years for the United Nations mainly in Asia and Africa with several agencies likes, OHCHR, IOM, UNHCR, WHO, UNICEF, MSF Switzerland at the coordination level. He was specialized in humanitarian development, with special emphasis on human rights, international law, migration, public health, SGBV, and security policy.  His field of interests in this branch include human health, human security, human rights, environment, climate change, public health, architecture, and projects management at operational and coordination level in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe.  He was also Founder and CEO for a health platform in Switzerland focusing on integrative medicine and complementary medicine and development, education, health and humanitarian promotion for NGOs, volunteering and members for various associations and/or foundations, hospitals, patients care, and health professionals.

Outside of academics and work, Thomas enjoys a variety of world music, theatre, opera, hiking, cooking, yoga, Pilates, swimming, sailing, religious arts, painting, and spending time outdoors.

Thomas' publications include the following.

Academic

  • "Integrative Medicine: Global Stakes and a Moment to Implement in Medical Institutions as Priority Objectives for the Next Decades" with Béatrice Cuzin, MD, Wharton Healthcare Quarterly 13, no. 2 (April 2024) - PDF.
  • "Complex integrative medicine approaches: irritable bowel syndrome, interstitial cystitis (painful bladder syndrome) and infertility in women’s health" with Beatrice Cuzin, MSc, MD, and Kandra Schmidtberger, MSc, MD, Women's Health Open Journal 8, no. 1 (2022): 1-8., doi 10.17140/WHOJ-8-146.
  • "Chronic pelvic pain in women: Sharing interdisciplinary experience" with Beatrice Cuzin, MSc, MD, and Kandra Schmidtberger, MSc, MD, Women's Health Open Journal 7, no. 2 (2021): 31-33, doi 10.17140/WHOJ-7-144.