Bettina Pfleiderer

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Bettina Pfleiderer (born September 20, 1961 in Geislingen an der Steige in the district of Göppingen ) is a German scientist and university professor. From 2016 to 2019 she was President of the World Medical Association .

Life

After graduating from high school, Pfleiderer first studied chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 1987 she received her diploma and her doctorate in 1989 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . After a brief activity as a research assistant at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, she moved to the NMR Center of the Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston for a research stay in 1990 , where she was Research Associate from 1992 to 1995 . She then returned to Germany and began studying medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster in 1995. At the same time, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Clinical Radiology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University, where she qualified as a professor in 1997 and was appointed professor in 2004. In 2004 she received her license to practice medicine, did her doctorate in medicine in 2005 and took over the leadership of the research group "Cognition & Gender" at the Institute for Clinical Radiology in Münster.

Pfleiderer is married and has two daughters.

Research priorities

During her time at Harvard Medical School in Boston researched Pfleiderer among other things, the behavior of breast implants made of silicone . She was able to show that silicone can also escape from intact implants and can then be detected in the organism.

In Münster, her research focus is on the investigation of gender-specific differences in language , memory , learning , pain reception and audio - visual perception using functional magnetic resonance imaging , as well as gender-sensitive medicine.

Professional policy

Pfleiderer is a member of the German Association of Doctors and Chair of the Münster Regional Group. She chaired the Scientific Advisory Board and was a member of the organizing committee of the 28th Congress of the Medical Women's International Association in Münster in 2010. Pfleiderer has been a member of the Executive Committee of the World Medical Association since 2010. From 2010 to 2013 she was the chairwoman of the Committee for Science and Research of the World Medical Association. In 2013, Pfleiderer was elected President of the World Medical Association for the period from 2016 to 2019. In the election she was nominated by Georgia and prevailed against Astrid Bühren, the honorary president of the German Medical Association, who had been nominated by the latter as a candidate.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It counts: the doctor demands courage - Nachrichten - DIE WELT . Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b CV of Bettina Pfleiderer on the homepage of the University of Münster (English).
  3. ↑ Bettina Pfleiderer: “I have a limitless curiosity about people and life!” ( Memento from December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on frauennrw.de (November 8, 2010) (accessed on October 28, 2013).
  4. ↑ So much pain experienced in Der Spiegel 36/1997 (accessed on October 28, 2013).
  5. ↑ News details. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Neuroscientist Bettina Pfleiderer From one honor to the next ( memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) in Münstersche Zeitung from August 26, 2010.
  7. ↑ a b Bettina Pfleiderer: At the head of the World Medical Association Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2013; 110 (35-36): A-1635 / B-1443 / C-1425 (accessed October 28, 2013).
  8. ↑ German X-ray Prize for Dr. Bettina Pfleiderer - Two radiologists from the University of Münster honored ( Memento from February 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) UNIPRESS Münster press release from May 21, 1997 (accessed on October 28, 2013).
  9. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. Bettina Pfleiderer - Maria Sibylla Merian Prize winner 2003 .
  10. ↑ News details. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ News details. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ News details. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfleiderer, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Geislingen an der Steige