Dr. Nowak is senior clinician, researcher and lecturer at the University Heart Center Zurich.
Her main interest is understanding the disease mechanisms underlying inborn errors of metabolism and particularly Fabry disease. She has been treating the Zurich Fabry disease cohort of over 100 patients for 10 years.
She is a nephrologist and specialist of general internal medicine. Her undergraduate training residency was at the University Hospitals Bern, Basel and Zurich Switzerland as well as at the Royal Sussex Hospital Brighton, UK. Her clinical and scientific research interests also include vitamin D, iron and mineral metabolism. She is currently a Principal Investigator of numerous trials and has authored 48 original research publications and 29 review articles, letters and book chapters.
She is reviewer of several international scientific journals. She also organized and chaired several national and international scientific events.