Alexandra Kautzky-Willer

Alexandra Kautzky-Willer (born April 18, 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian specialist in internal medicine and has been a professor of gender medicine at the Medical University of Vienna since 2010 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1980, Alexandra Willer began studying medicine at the University of Vienna , which she completed in 1988 with a doctorate in all medicine with distinction. In the same year she married Michael Kautzky, who is a specialist in ear, nose and throat diseases at the Vienna General Hospital (AKH). Their son Alexander was born a year later.

From 1988 to 1990 Alexandra Kautzky-Willer was a research assistant under Guntram Schernthaner and Rudolf Prager at the 2nd Medical University Clinic in Vienna. During this time she went to Padua as a visiting researcher for four months at the Institute of Systems Science and Bioengineering (LADSEB) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), where she worked on projects on β-cell function and insulin secretion. In 1990 she got a job as a university assistant at the University of Vienna and worked as such at the 2nd Medical University Clinic until 1991. Since 1991 she has been at the University Clinic for Internal Medicine III of the General Hospital of the City of Vienna . In 1997, one year after completing her training as a specialist in internal medicine, she completed her habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna with a thesis on the “role of the secretion of insulin and amylin, as well as the hepatic insulin extraction in insulin resistance” and became a university lecturer appointed for internal medicine. In 1998 she was awarded the official title of Associate University Professor. The following year she received the additional subject decree for endocrinology and metabolism. Since 2002 she has been working as a senior physician at the University Clinic for Internal Medicine III.

From 2003 to 2005 she held the post of first secretary in both the Austrian and the Central European Diabetes Society. Through her commitment to promoting and promoting gender medicine , she became a member of the scientific advisory board of the newly founded Austrian Society for Gender- Specific Medicine in 2007 - she has been a member of the board since 2009. From 2009 to 2011 she was Secretary General of the Association for the Promotion of Science and Research in the new university clinics at the General Hospital of the City of Vienna and on the board of the Austrian Diabetes Society (ÖDG). From 2010 to 2015 she was also on the board of the Austrian Obesity Society.

On January 1, 2010, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer became the first female professor for gender medicine in Austria at the Medical University of Vienna . In the course of being awarded this professorship, she founded the Gender Medicine Unit . In the same year she took over the leadership of the first postgraduate university course in gender medicine in Europe. Since 2011 she has been active on the Scientific Board of the German Society for Gender-Specific Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (DGGZ) and in the "Gender-sensitive research in epidemiology, neurosciences and genetics / tumor research" group.

In the La pura women's health resort kamptal , Alexandra Kautzky-Willer supports the implementation of the latest medical findings from gender medicine in clinical practice as scientific director.

As a speaker, former vice-president and member of the advisory board of the Mini-Med association, she also informs laypeople about gender medicine and uses examples from prevention, diagnosis and therapy to illustrate the interplay between biological (sex) and socio-cultural gender (gender).

In 2012, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer was elected as an associate member to the board of the International Society of Gender Medicine (Isogem). In the same year she became a founding member and treasurer of the Austrian Society for Gender Studies. In 2012 and 2013 she was treasurer of the Austrian Diabetes Society. In 2013 she was confirmed as a full member of the board of the International Society for Gender Medicine and elected chairwoman of the Austrian Society for Gender-Specific Medicine and from 2013 to 2014 also held the office of President of the Association for the Promotion of Science and Research in the new university clinics at the General Hospital of the city of Vienna. Alexandra Kautzky-Willer taught gender medicine as a visiting professor at Bielefeld University in the 2015/2016 winter semester. In 2016 she moved from the board of the association for the promotion of science and research in the new university clinics at the General Hospital of the City of Vienna to the advisory board and from 2016 was also deputy chairwoman of the Austrian Diabetes Society. In January 2018 she was elected President of the Austrian Diabetes Society.

research

Alexandra Kautzky-Willer's research focuses on gestational diabetes , gender aspects in diabetes mellitus , as well as insulin resistance and the function of β cells. In this context, she wrote papers in various journals and is a member of the editorial boards of the "Journal of Clinical Metabolism & Diabetes", the "Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy", the "Journal of Diabetes Research & Clinical Metabolism", the "International Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism ", as well as the journals" Endocrinology & Metabolic Syndrome: Current Research "," Global Epidemic Obesity "," Frontiers in Diabetes "," Reports on Diabetes "," Endocrinology & Diabetes Research "and" Gender and the Genomes ". In addition, she was a guest editor in specialist journals several times.

As a member of the committees of the Austrian Diabetes Society for Diabetes Prevention and Treatment Guidelines, she worked on the 2009 revised and expanded version of "Diabetes mellitus - guidelines for practice". Her subjects are antidiabetic therapy for diabetes mellitus (type 2 diabetes), therapy with insulin for diabetes mellitus, diabetic nephropathy , pregnancy with pre-existing diabetes and gestational diabetes. As chairman of the Committee for Gender & Migrants, she developed information on gender-specific aspects for clinical practice in prediabetes and diabetes mellitus and was involved in drafting the recommendation for diabetes patients with a migration background. She is also a co-author of the evidence-based guidelines and the practice guidelines of the German Diabetes Society on diabetes and pregnancy and gestational diabetes. In 2010, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer represented the Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Group (DPSG) of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in establishing the new international criteria for diagnosing gestational diabetes. Through her research and commitment, she was also significantly involved in the inclusion of the sugar exposure test in the Austrian mother-child passport examinations.

Another focus of Alexandra Kautzky-Willer is the investigation of gender aspects in overweight , obesity and adipokines . In addition to numerous papers for specialist journals, she wrote a contribution to the 2006 Austrian Obesity Report on complications related to fertility , pregnancy and childbirth .

Gender aspects in inflammation and endothelial dysfunction are also topics of her research.

Awards

In 1995, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer received the Höchst Award for her research report, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, on the effect of increased circulating amylin levels on insulin secretion in patients with chronic kidney failure .

In 2003 she received the research award of the Austrian Diabetes Society for the interdisciplinary multicenter study "Austrian Gestational Diabetes Project". In the same year she also received the poster prize for her work on decreased plasma adiponectin concentrations in women after gestational diabetes.

The Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Group (DPSG) of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) presented Alexandra Kautzky-Willer with the Joseph Hoet Research Award in Mykonos in 2005 for her research on gestational diabetes as a model for type 2 diabetes.

In 2009 she received the poster prize from the Austrian Society for Gender-Specific Medicine for her presentation on gender-specific differences in the cardiovascular risk profile, late complications and in the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

In 2011 she was nominated for the Austrian of the Year award in the research category.

The European Institute for Gender Equality selected her as one of the Women Inspiring Europe 2013.

In 2015 she was awarded the Gabriele Possanner State Prize.

In 2016 Alexandra Kautzky-Willer became the “look! Women of the Year Award in the Health category and named Scientist of the Year by the Education and Science Journalists' Club.

In 2018 she received the City of Vienna Prize for Medical Sciences .

Works

Alexandra Kautzky-Willer is the author and co-author of scientific publications, book chapters and guidelines. The medical literature database PubMed lists 206 articles with their participation (as of December 22, 2016).

Books

• Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Elisabeth Tschachler: Health: A question of gender . 1st edition. Orac, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7015-0541-8 .
• Alexandra Kautzky-Willer (Ed.): Gender medicine . 1st edition. UTB Böhlau, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-8252-3646-5 .
• Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Yvonne Winhofer: Diabetes. Take precautions, recognize them in good time and treat them correctly . 1st edition. Manz, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-214-00991-5 .

Web links

• Univ. Professor Alexandra Kautzky-Willer receives first professorship for Gender Medicine in Austria , website of the Medical University of Vienna, January 11, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gender Medicine Unit of the Medical University of Vienna
2. ^ University course in Gender Medicine
3. ↑ la pura women's health resort kamptal
4. ↑ Gender visiting professorship
5. ^ The work plan of the new management duo of the Austrian Diabetes Society (ÖDG) . Retrieved February 13, 2018.
6. ↑ Diabetes mellitus - guidelines for practice . Revised and extended version 2009. In: Österreichische Diabetes Gesellschaft (Ed.): Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift . tape 121 , 21-22 (Suppl 5), 2009, pp. 1-87 , doi : 10.1007 / s00508-009-1263-y , PMID 19937307 .
7. ^ Helmut Kleinwechselter, Christoph Bührer, Wilgard Hunger-Battefeld, Franz Kainer, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Brigitte Pawlowski, Horst Reiher, Ute Schäfer-Graf, Marianne Sorger: Diabetes and Pregnancy . In: Diabetology and Metabolism . 6 Suppl 2, 2011, p. S191-S197 , doi : 10.1055 / s-0031-1283712 .
8. ↑ Helmut Kleinwechselter, Ute Schäfer-Graf, Christoph Bührer, Irene Hoesli, Franz Kainer, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Brigitte Pawlowski, Karl Schunk, Thierry Somville, Marianne Sorger: Gestationsdiabetes mellitus (GDM) - diagnostics, therapy a. Aftercare . In: Diabetology and Metabolism . 6 Suppl 2, 2011, p. S180-S190 , doi : 10.1055 / s-0031-1283723 .
9. ↑ International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups Consensus Panel: International association of diabetes and pregnancy study groups recommendations on the diagnosis and classification of hyperglycemia in pregnancy . In: Diabetes Care . tape 33 , 2010, p. 676-682 , doi : 10.2337 / dc09-1848 , PMID 20190296 .
10. ↑ Alexandra Kautzky-Willer: Complications in connection with fertility, pregnancy, childbirth . In: First Austrian Obesity Report 2006 . 2006, p. 143–144 ( adipositas-austria.org [PDF; accessed April 2, 2012]).
11. ↑ Bernhard Ludvik, Martin Clodi, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Markus Schuller, Helmut Graf, Engelbert Hartter, Giovanni Pacini, Rudolf Prager: Increased levels of circulating islet amyloid polypeptide in patients with chronic renal failure have no effect on insulin secretion . In: The Journal of Clinical Investigation . tape 94 , no. 5 , 1994, pp. 2045-2050 , doi : 10.1172 / JCI117558 , PMID 7962550 .
12. ↑ Christine Winzer, Tohru Funahashi, Andreas Festa, Serdar Farhan, Oswald Wagner, Werner Waldhäusl, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer: Decreased plasma adiponectin concentrations in women after gestational diabetes . In: Acta Medica Austriaca . 29 Suppl., No. 60 , 2002, pp. 6-7 .
13. ^ European Institute for Gender Equality
14. ↑ derStandard.at - State Prize for Gender Research to Alexandra Kautzky-Willer . Article dated December 11, 2015, accessed December 11, 2015.
15. ↑ looklive.at - These are the national winners of the women's gala 2016! ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article dated December 1, 2016, accessed December 22, 2016. 
16. ↑ derStandard.at: Gender Medic is Scientist of the Year . Article of January 9, 2017, accessed on January 9, 2017.
17. ↑ Gender medicine specialist Kautzky-Willer is “Scientist of the Year” . Article of January 9, 2017, accessed on January 9, 2017.
18. ↑ Literature by Alexandra Kautzky-Willer in the medical literature database PubMed . Retrieved December 22, 2016.