Sara Brucker

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Sara Yvonne Brucker (born May 27, 1974 in Gengenbach ) is a German doctor and gynecologist. She is professor for special gynecology and women's health at the University of Tübingen .

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Brucker studied medicine from 1993 to 2000 at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg and in 1998 at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris . She did her doctorate in 1999 in Freiburg with the subject of pretentive visual information processing in patients with Parkinson's disease .
As early as 2009, when she completed her habilitation and venia legendi for the subject of gynecology and obstetrics at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, she had been the senior physician at the University Women's Clinic Tübingen for a year. Since 2010 she has been head of the Center for Rare Genital Malformations at the Center for Rare Diseases in Tübingen and since 2014 she has been the medical director of the Research Institute for Women's Health at the Department for Women's Health at the University of Tübingen.
In 2011 she was offered a position at the University Women's Clinic in Salzburg , and in 2013 at the University Women's Clinic in Würzburg . However, she declined both calls.
With her team, she performed the first uterine transplant in Germany in October 2016 .
In 2018 she was elected chairwoman of the German Society for Senology .

On May 23, 2019 it became known that two women who had been implanted with a uterus by Brucker and her team at the University Women's Clinic in Tübingen had given birth to children with the help of the donated organs.

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  1. ↑ Successful in the men's world of gynecology. Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated February 25, 2012
  2. ↑ Christiane Hawranek : Getting pregnant with someone else's uterus. , BR Wissen dated December 18, 2017
  3. ↑ Hope to have a child of their own. Clinic forum of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , February 2017
  4. ↑ University Women's Clinic in Tübingen - Two children born after a uterine transplant. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
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SURNAME Brucker, Sara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brucker, Sara Yvonne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Gengenbach