Previous events
Read here which events the Swiss Gender Medicine Symposium team has already successfully organized.
Symposium 2025
Date: Monday and Tuesday, October 20-21, 2025
Location: Kursaal Bern
Monday, October 20, 2025
12:00 | Arrival and Check-in at the Kursaal Bern |
Meet & Greet in the Forum | ||
13:30 | Welcome and introduction into Gender Medicine and its fundamental Change of Perspective in Medicine | Prof. Beatrice Beck Schimmer (University of Zurich) and Host Michael Rauchenstein | |
13:45 | Talk about Switzerland as an Innovation Driver | Ruth Metzler-Arnold (President Swiss Olympic & Chairwoman Switzerland Global Enterprise) | |
14:15 | Gendered Innovations - International Perspectives and Potentials | Prof. Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University) | |
14:40 | The Women's Brain Capital | Dr. Antonella Santuccione (Woman's Brain Project, Basel) | |
14:50 | The basis for the female category in sports - how to manage transgender and differences in sex development | Prof. Angelica Lindén Hirschberg (Karolinska Institutet SWE) | |
15:00 | Aspects of Sex and Gender in Surgery | Prof. Guido Beldi (University of Bern) | MORE |
15:15 | BREAK: Networking and Presentation of Posters on current Research in Gender Medicine | ||
16:00 | The essential Role of Sex and Gender in Prevention | Prof. Sanne Peters (UMC Utrecht, NL) | |
16:30 | Panel on the Status and Potential of gender-specific Medicine in Switzerland | Prof. Carole Clair (Unisanté Lausanne), Prof. Carolin Lerchenmüller (University of Zurich), Prof. Cathérine Gebhard (University Hospital Bern) | |
17:00 | Closing the Gap AND Boosting the Economy | Carolina Müller-Möhl (Müller-Möhl Group & Müller-Möhl Foundation), Valentina Sartori (McKinsey) | |
17:30 | Wrap-up and Conclusions of the first Day | ||
17:45 | End of the first Day |
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
12:00 | Arrival and Check-in at the Kursaal Bern |
Meet & Greet in the Forum | ||
13:30 | Welcome and introduction into Gender Medicine and its fundamental Change of Perspective in Medicine | Prof. Beatrice Beck Schimmer (University of Zurich) and Host Michael Rauchenstein | |
13:45 | Talk about Switzerland as an Innovation Driver | Ruth Metzler-Arnold (President Swiss Olympic & Chairwoman Switzerland Global Enterprise) | |
14:15 | Gendered Innovations - International Perspectives and Potentials | Prof. Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University) | |
14:40 | The Women's Brain Capital | Dr. Antonella Santuccione (Woman's Brain Project, Basel) | |
14:50 | The basis for the female category in sports - how to manage transgender and differences in sex development | Prof. Angelica Lindén Hirschberg (Karolinska Institutet SWE) | |
15:00 | Aspects of Sex and Gender in Surgery | Prof. Guido Beldi (University of Bern) | MORE |
15:15 | BREAK: Networking and Presentation of Posters on current Research in Gender Medicine | ||
16:00 | The essential Role of Sex and Gender in Prevention | Prof. Sanne Peters (UMC Utrecht, NL) | |
16:30 | Panel on the Status and Potential of gender-specific Medicine in Switzerland | Prof. Carole Clair (Unisanté Lausanne), Prof. Carolin Lerchenmüller (University of Zurich), Prof. Cathérine Gebhard (University Hospital Bern) | |
17:00 | Closing the Gap AND Boosting the Economy | Carolina Müller-Möhl (Müller-Möhl Group & Müller-Möhl Foundation), Valentina Sartori (McKinsey) | |
17:30 | Wrap-up and Conclusions of the first Day | ||
17:45 | End of the first Day |
Kick-off event
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 16:30 – 19:00
Location: Zunfthaus zur Meisen, 8001 Zurich
Program
16:30 | Check-in | Welcome | |
17:00 | Begrüssung und Überblick über Gendermedizin | Prof. Dr. med. Beatrice Beck Schimmer (UZH) |
17:20 | Internationale Perspektiven und Potenziale | Prof. Dr. Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University) |
17:30 | Fireside-Chat Gendermedizin | Prof. Dr. med. Carole Clair (CHUV), Prof. Dr. med. Carolin Lerchenmüller (UZH), Prof. Dr. med. Cathérine Gebhard (Inselgruppe Bern) |
17:55 | Ein Leuchtturm-Projekt für die Schweiz | Dr. Simone Wyss Fedele (CEO S-GE) |
18:10 | Swiss Gender Medicine Symposium 2025 | Stefan Linder (Initiative Schweiz) |
18:20 | Schlusswort | |
18:30 | Apéro Riche | Networking |
Speakers
Prof. Dr. med. Carole Claire
University of Lausanne
Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Lausanne and co-head of the Health and Gender Unit at the University Center for General Medicine and Public Health (Unisanté).
Prof. Dr. med. Cathérine Gebhard
Senior Physician, Head of Preventive Cardiology, Insel Bern
Professor and senior physician at the Department of Cardiology at Inselspital Bern. Research area: gender medicine, collaboration with researchers at the Universities of Bern, Basel and Zurich.
Prof. Dr. med. Carolin Lerchenmüller
Associate Professor of Gender Medicine, University of Zurich
Professor and Chair of Gender Medicine at the University of Zurich, Senior Physician at the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital Zurich USZ.
Prof. Dr. Beatrice Beck-Schimmer
Director, University Medicine Zurich
Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Zurich, Director of University Medicine Zurich and member of the seven-member Executive Board of the University of Zurich.
Dr. Simone Wyss Fedele
CEO Switzerland Global Enterprise S-GE
Political scientist, CEO of Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE), the Swiss organization for the promotion of exports and investments in the Swiss economy with offices in 31 countries.
Prof. Dr. Londa Schibinger
Director, Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine Stanford University
Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University in California.
Stefan Linder
Chairman Initiative Switzerland
Initiative Switzerland is a patron of the Swiss Gender Medicine Symposium 2025. Stefan Linder, chairman of Initiative Switzerland, is Co-founder and long-standing CEO and delegate of the Swiss Economic Forum.