Gender Medicine Talk

Ute Seeland, MD, PhD, she/her, is a specialist for internal medicine/ sex and gender sensitive medicine and a clinician with special experience in echocardiography and arterial stiffness measurement. She holds the title Specialist for Gender Medicine DGesGM® and is a clinical researcher and lecturer at the Charité University for Medicine Berlin, Germany, Department of Cardiology and Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics with a focus on sex and gender sensitive cardiovascular research and preventive clinical medicine. Until 2020 she has been a research assistant at the Institute of Gender in Medicine (GiM). Since SoSe 2021 she is a visiting professor for women's and gender studies at the University of Mainz in Germany.

Her main research focuses on microvascular diseases, hypertension, diastolic dysfunction, and educational research. She was involved into the process to implement the sex and gender aspects into the regular medical studies at Charité-Berlin. Ute Seeland collaborates with partners from several European universities in projects like EUGIM, EUGenMed, eGender, Life-NobCAD, GenCAD and with German partners in BMBF projects like BEFRI I + II, BEHERS and GendAge. She was a member of the ESC Task Force for drafting an update of the guidelines for cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy and is recognized as a “center for arterial vascular stiffness measurement” (DeGAG). In 2019, she received the Science Award of the German Medical Women’s Association (DÄB) and of the German Society of Cardiology (DGK).

She is chairwomen of the Working Group Sex and Gender in Cardiology of the DGK (AG28), a member of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) and of the Group „Gender & Diversity“ of the Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions (IMPP). She has an international scientific network as chair of the Sex and Gender VascAgeNet Expert Group within the framework of the EU-funded COST project and as a member of the International Society of Gender Medicine (IGM/ ISOGEM).