Vera Regitz-Zagrosek
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek (* thirtieth October 1953 in Homburg ) is a German Specialist for cardiology . She is a co-founder of gender medicine in Germany and holds the first and so far only professorship for women-specific health research with a focus on cardiovascular diseases . From 2007 to 2019 she was director of the Institute for Gender Research in Medicine at the Charité in Berlin, which she founded.
Life
She studied at the Medical Faculty of the University of Saarland in Homburg and at the Joseph Fourier University . This was followed by a scientific activity at the heart centers in Munich (DHM) and Berlin (DHZB) as well as research stays at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . In 1991 she completed her habilitation at the Free University of Berlin , where she then worked as a private lecturer . From 1992 she was senior physician, from 1996 senior senior physician at the Clinic for Internal Medicine / Cardiologist of the DHZB.
From 1996 she was Professor of Cardiology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2003 to 2019 she was professor for women-specific health research with a focus on cardiovascular diseases at the Charité. In the winter semester of 2019, she was Anna Fischer Dückelmann visiting professor at the University of Zurich . Since 2019 she has been a senior professor at the Charité and the University of Zurich.
Publications (selection)
Books
- with Sabine Oertelt-Prigione (Ed.): Sex and gender aspects in clinical medicine. Textbook. 2011, ISBN 978-0-85729-831-7 .
- Cardiovascular disease during pregnancy. 2012, ISBN 978-3-89862-911-9 .
- as editor: Sex and gender differences in pharmacology. 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-30725-6 .
items
- Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Georgios Kararigas: Mechanistic Pathways of Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease , in: Physiological Reviews , Volume 97.2017, pp. 1–37
- Vera Regitz-Zagrosek: What makes women sick. In medicine, research, testing and teaching are primarily carried out on men. It can be fatal for women. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , Magazine No. 21, May 24, 2019.
Awards
- 1996: Albert Fraenkel Prize of the German Society for Cardiology
- 2007: Margherita von Brentano Prize
- 2014: Award of an honorary doctorate by the Medical University of Innsbruck
- 2018: Award of the Cross of Merit, First Class, of the Federal Republic of Germany
Web links
- Prof. Dr. Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Institute for Gender Research in Medicine (there also a curriculum vitae )
- Cardiovascular Research: Recognize - Heal - Prevent , ed. from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . With a contribution by Vera Regitz-Zagrosek ( Equal treatment for heart attacks? Women's hearts in danger! P. 41f) and curriculum vitae (p. 43ff)
- Interview in: ÄrzteZeitung. March 7, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Fraenkel Prize, laureate
- ↑ https://www.i-med.ac.at/mypoint/news/686436.html
- ↑ Institute of Gender in Medicine: message. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Regitz-Zagrosek, Vera |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German specialist in cardiology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Homburg |