The International Society for Gender Medicine

Dr. Marianne Legato, Emerita Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University, is an internationally known academic physician, author, lecturer, and specialist in gender-specific medicine. She is founding member of the International Society for Gender Medicine and the founder and director of The Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University and its next iteration, The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine. She has published extensively on gender and sex specific medicine, both for the scientific community and for the lay public. She is also the founding editor of the Journal Gender Medicine, and the journal Gender and the Genome. In 1992, Dr. Legato won the American Heart Association’s Blakeslee Award for the best book written for the lay public on cardiovascular disease. The third edition of her textbook, Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine and her most recent book, The Plasticity of Sex., both won Prose awards from the American Association of Editors in 2021 and 2022 respectively. She is a practicing internist in New York City and has been listed each year in New York Magazine and Castle Connolly’s lists "Best Doctors" since their inception in 1993. Dr. Marek Glezerman, MD has chaired for 25 years in succession three large departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology at major health care centers in Israel. He has also acted for 14 years as chairman of the National Steering Committee of ObGyn at the Maccabi Health Care Services in Israel. Since 20108, he has been deeply involved in research and promotion of Gender and Sex Conscious Medicine and is regarded as one of its pioneers on a national and international level. Prof. Glezerman is founding president of the Israel Society for Gender- and Sex-Conscious Medicine and past-president of the International Society for Gender Medicine. He is currently Head of Gender- and Sex-Conscious Medicine at Tel Aviv University. He has written/edited 6 books and published more than 340 scientific articles in professional journals and chapters in textbooks.

1. Introduction – How far we have come

2. History and Key Players



Hiroaki Shimokawa, MD, PhD. , President, Japanese Society for Gender-specific Medicine Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
Marek Glezerman, MD, Professor Emeritus, Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sackler School of  Medicine,  Tel Aviv University, President, The International Society for Gender Medicine, President, The Israel Society  for Gender Medicine, Director, Research Center for Gender Medicine, Rabin Medical Center, Israel
Alyson J. McGregor MD, MA, Director, Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine (SGEM), Co-Director, Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine (SGEM) Fellowship, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Gillian Einstein, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Director, Collaborative Graduate Program in Women's Health, Visiting Professor of Neuroscience and Gender Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden, Chair, Institute Advisory Board, Institute of Gender and Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Karin Schenck-Gustafsson MD, PhD, Professor of Cardiology, Founder and Chair, Centre for Gender Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek,
Maria Grazia Modena – Italy
Virginia Miller, Mayo Clinic, Principal Investigator, Specialized Center for Research of Sex Differences, Mayo Clinic, 2012-present; Research Director, Mayo Clinic's Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (a National Institutes of Health-funded training program for junior faculty), 2010-present
Marjorie Jenkins, MD MEHP, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean for Women Faculty, Founder and Chief Science Officer,  Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health, Rush Endowed Chair for Excellence in Women's Health, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center  

3. Highlights from Berlin and into the Future