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The 1st World Congress on Gender-Specific Medicine: Report from Berlin
GENDER MEDICINE/Vo[, 3, NO. 1, 2 0 0 6
The 1st World Congress on Gender-Specific Medicine: Report from Berlin
The 1st World Congress on Gender-Specific Medicine, titled "Men, Women, and Medicine: A New View of the Biology of Sex/Gender Differences and Aging," recently met in Berlin, Germany, in February. The Congress brought together more than 300 international leaders in all subspecialties of medicine for a discussion of gender as a factor in the prevention, detection, treatment, and outcome of illness. Honorary Congress President Vivian W. Pinn, MD, and Congress President Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP, presided over a program that encompassed sex-specific observations about the course of illness as well as new observations that have emerged from clinical research. The scientific program focused on a wide-ranging group of issues, considering a m o n g other topics the gender-specific aspects of cardiovascular disease, therapeutics, pain and its amelioration, immunology, metabolism, dermatology, sexual function, pulmonology, and neurobiology. The current status of gender-specific health issues around the world, such as depression, AIDS, and the treatm e n t of aging in both sexes, was also examined. In addition to a wide array of abstracts, this first Congress presented a forum for new developments and the exchange of ideas in an effort to raise awareness of the benefits of a gender-specific approach to all aspects of health care. Lively i m p r o m p t u exchanges on topics as diverse as sex education in Africa and global differences in the incidence of depression were commonplace t h r o u g h o u t the conference, and participants were actively engaged in debate over areas for future research. With m a n y thanks to all who attended the first annual World Congress on Gender-Specific Medicine, we look forward to a year of increased activity and m u c h progress in growing the b o d y of knowledge on the differences between the sexes. The formation of a new association of scholars interested in gender-specific medicine, the International Association for Gender Medicine, is in progress. Domestic and international conferences on gender-specific medicine, as well as educational programs for the lay public, are being planned for the next year. More information on these plans and programs will be forthcoming in the June issue. Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP Editor-in-Chief
The 1st World Congress on Gender-Specific Medicine: Report from Berlin
The 1st World Congress on Gender-Specific Medicine, titled "Men, Women, and Medicine: A New View of the Biology of Sex/Gender Differences and Aging," recently met in Berlin, Germany, in February. The Congress brought together more than 300 international leaders in all subspecialties of medicine for a discussion of gender as a factor in the prevention, detection, treatment, and outcome of illness. Honorary Congress President Vivian W. Pinn, MD, and Congress President Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP, presided over a program that encompassed sex-specific observations about the course of illness as well as new observations that have emerged from clinical research. The scientific program focused on a wide-ranging group of issues, considering a m o n g other topics the gender-specific aspects of cardiovascular disease, therapeutics, pain and its amelioration, immunology, metabolism, dermatology, sexual function, pulmonology, and neurobiology. The current status of gender-specific health issues around the world, such as depression, AIDS, and the treatm e n t of aging in both sexes, was also examined. In addition to a wide array of abstracts, this first Congress presented a forum for new developments and the exchange of ideas in an effort to raise awareness of the benefits of a gender-specific approach to all aspects of health care. Lively i m p r o m p t u exchanges on topics as diverse as sex education in Africa and global differences in the incidence of depression were commonplace t h r o u g h o u t the conference, and participants were actively engaged in debate over areas for future research. With m a n y thanks to all who attended the first annual World Congress on Gender-Specific Medicine, we look forward to a year of increased activity and m u c h progress in growing the b o d y of knowledge on the differences between the sexes. The formation of a new association of scholars interested in gender-specific medicine, the International Association for Gender Medicine, is in progress. Domestic and international conferences on gender-specific medicine, as well as educational programs for the lay public, are being planned for the next year. More information on these plans and programs will be forthcoming in the June issue. Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP Editor-in-Chief