Vera Regitz-Zagrosek is a clinical cardiologist and Senior Professor at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. She founded the Berlin Institute for Gender in Medicine in 2004 as well as the German and International Society for Gender Medicine in 2007.

Her work bridges clinical and basic research, with a focus on integrating sex and gender into cardiovascular medicine. She has coordinated numerous national and international research projects and contributed to clinical guidelines, with more than 300 scientific publications.

Her contributions to gender medicine have been widely recognised, including honorary doctorates from the Universities of Innsbruck and Zurich, the Bundesverdienstkreuz (2018), and the Paracelsus Medal (2025).