Professor Vera Regitz-Zagrosek

Professor Vera Regitz-Zagrosek

Charite University Hospital, Berlin (Germany)

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Cardiologist and founder of the Institute of Gender in Medicine and of the International Society Gender Medicine (IGM). Coordinator of gender related European projects, EUGENMED - Roadmap to Gender implementation in Biomedicine, EUGIM -European Curriculum in Gender Medicine, and GENCAD - Gender in coronary artery disease. Advisor in GOING FORWARD (Canada) and "Sex, Gender and COVID19 (Zürich) and ENDLESS (Utrecht). Coordinator of the first DFG Research and Training projects on Sex and Gender, 2001 -2015, “Gender in myocardial hypertrophy”, “Gender Medicine” and GENDAGE, and Sex Gender and Multiple Sclerosis (BMBF, BMG). Task Force Leader for the Guidelines “Cardiovascular Diseases in Pregnancy” of the ESC 2012, 2018. Speaker for Berlin partner site at DZHK. Honorary doctorate of university of Innsbruck 2016. Guest professor at university of Utrecht and Zurich 2019. Advisor for gender medicine at university of Zurich 2020. Cross of Merit of Federal Republik of Germany 2018.