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Swiss Gender Medicine Symposium 2025
October 20 - 21, 2025
Kursaal, Bern (Switzerland)
Monday, October 20, 2025
Start | Title | Speaker | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
12:00 | Check-in | Forum | |
13:30 | Welcome and introduction | Prof. Beatrice Beck Schimmer (University of Zurich) and Host Michael Rauchenstein | Arena |
13:45 | Keynote | Ruth Metzler-Arnold (former Federal Councillor, President Swiss Olympic) | Arena |
14:15 | International Perspectives and Potentials | Prof. Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University) | Arena |
14:40 | Outlook and Innovation: Mental Health | Dr. Antonella Santuccione (Woman's Brain Project, Basel) | Arena |
14:50 | Outlook and Innovation: Sports Medicine | Prof. Angelica Lindén Hirschberg (Karolinska Institutet SWE) | Arena |
15:00 | Outlook and Innovation: Surgery | Prof. Guido Beldi (University of Bern) | Arena |
15:15 | Networking break: Meet the Speakers and poster presentations | Forum | |
16:00 | Genderspecific research on prevention | Prof. Sanne Peters (UMC Utrecht, NL) | Arena |
16:30 | Genderspecific medicine in Switzerland | Prof. Carole Clair (Unisanté Lausanne), Prof. Carolin Lerchenmüller (University of Zurich), Prof. Cathérine Gebhard (University Hospital Bern) | Arena |
17:00 | Outlook and Innovation | tba | Arena |
17:30 | Wrap-up Day 1 | Arena | |
17:45 | End of Day 1 | Arena |
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Start | Title | Speaker | Room |
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08:30 | Check-in | Forum | |
09:00 | Welcome | Host Michael Rauchenstein | Arena |
09:15 | Sex- and genderspecific differences, status of gendermedicine
internationally | Prof. Louise Pilote (Mc Gill University Montreal CA) | Arena |
09:45 | Oncology Research: Clinical Research / Basic Research / Patient Perspective | PD Dr. Berna Özdemir (University of Bern), Dr. James Cleland (German Cancer Research Center), Ivo Schauwecker (Eupati Schweiz) | Arena |
10:15 | Networking break: Meet the Speakers and poster presentations | Forum | |
11:00 | Breakout-Session 3: Education | Prof. Vera Regitz-Zagrosek (Charité Berlin), PD Dr. Joëlle Schwarz (University of Lausanne), Mahilan Sritharan (Student of Medicine Basel) | Room C (tba) |
11:00 | Breakout-Session 2: Workforce | Prof. Renate Schnabel (Hamburg), two speakers tba | Room B (tba) |
11:00 | Breakout-Session 1: Regulatory issues | Dr. Christine Hänggeli (swissmedic), Prof. Angèle Gayet-Ageron (University of Bern), Annette Magnin (Ethics Commission Zurich) | Room A (tba) |
11:50 | AI & Big Data | Prof. Thomas Lüscher (Kings College London), Dr. Sonive Gülser Corat (Founder NonBiasAi) | Arena |
12:30 | Wrap-up Day 2 / Presentation Poster Prizes | Arena | |
12:50 | Farewell Lunch / Networking: Meet the Speakers | Forum | |
14:00 | End of Swiss Gender Medicine Symposium 2025 |
Call for Posters
The Scientific Program Committee invites researchers in the field of gender medicine to contribute posters to the Symposium.
Posters should showcase research on the influence of sex and gender in medicine, namely on the following subjects:
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Research entering the phase of translation into practical application
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Gender-sensitive treatment in clinical setting
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Data science, big data and AI
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