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Swiss Gender Medicine Symposium 2025
October 20 - 21, 2025
Kursaal, Bern (Switzerland)
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 | Advancing Sports Medicine with a gender-specific Perspective | Prof. Angelica Lindén Hirschberg (Karolinska Institutet SWE) |
15:00 | Aspects of Sex and Gender in Surgery | Prof. Guido Beldi (University of Bern) |
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
08:30 | Arrival and Check-in | |
09:00 | Welcome | Host Michael Rauchenstein |
09:15 | Sex- and genderspecific differences, status of gendermedicine
internationally | Prof. Louise Pilote (Mc Gill University Montreal CA) |
09:45 | Panel Discussion on Oncology Research: Outlook on Basic and Clinical Research and the Patient's Perspective | PD Dr. Berna Özdemir (University of Bern), Dr. James Cleland (German Cancer Research Center), Ivo Schauwecker (Eupati Schweiz) |
10:15 | BREAK: Networking and Presentation of Posters on current Research in Gender Medicine | |
11:00 | Breakout-Session 3: Education | PD Dr. Joëlle Schwarz (University of Lausanne), Prof. Vera Regitz-Zagrosek (Charité Berlin), Mahilan Sritharan (Student of Medicine Basel) |
11:00 | Breakout-Session 2: Workforce | Prof. Lisa Rotenstein (University of California, San Francisco), Prof. Renate Schnabel (Hamburg) |
11:00 | Breakout-Session 1: Regulatory issues |
Annette Magnin (Ethics Comittee Zurich)
Dr. Christine Haenggeli (swissmedic)
Prof. Angèle Gayet-Ageron (ISPM Bern) |
11:50 | AI & Big Data - Opportunities and Risks from a Gender Perspective | Prof. Thomas Lüscher (Kings College London), Dr. Saniye Gülser Corat (Founder NonBiasAi) |
12:30 | Wrap-up and Conclusions of the second Day | Poster Award | |
12:50 | Farewell Lunch and Networking | |
14:00 | End of Swiss Gender Medicine Symposium 2025 |
Language
The symposium will be held in English, simultaneous translation into German and French will be provided.
Call for Posters
The Scientific Program Committee has invited researchers in the field of gender medicine to contribute posters to the Symposium.
Posters 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
See some of the submitted posters during the poster walk of the Symposium. The poster prizes will be announced on Tuesday, 21 October, 2025.
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