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Trenton, NJ, December 12, 2005 -
The Women's Heart Foundation was recently selected to present
at the First World Congress on Gender Medicine,
to take place February 23 - 26, 2006 in Berlin, Germany. WHF's
abstract on its Teen Esteem© program was accepted by the Congress
review panel. Teen Esteem© is a gym-alternative program for
high school girls with a customized, gender-specific approach
to their health and fitness. Bonnie Arkus, RN, the Teen Esteem©
Project Director, will co-present with Dr. Kathleen Ashton, PhD, RN, the Teen Esteem©
Program Director and Principal Investigator for the Teen Esteem© research study.
The Congress Honorary President is Vivian W. Pinn, M.D.
Director, Office of Research on Women's Health (NIH), USA. The Congress
President if Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP, Columbia University College
of Physicians & Surgeons and Founder/Director of The Partnership
for Gender Specific Medicine, New-York. Other esteemed world leaders
serving on the Congress committee include:
- Europian Chairpersons
Karin Schenck-Gustafsson,
MD, PhD, FESC
Director, Center of Gender
Related Medicine
Karolinska University Hospital,
Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
- Europian Chairpersons
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, MD.
Vize-Director - Cardiovascular
Research Center
Chair Cardiovascular Disease in Women,
Gender in Medicine
Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin
& Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin (DHZB),
Berlin, Germany
- Chairperson
Amano Keiko MD, PhD,
Director of Chiba Prefectural Institute
of Public Health.
Chiba City, Japan
- Middle-East Chairperson
Gideon. Kopernik, MD
Director, Menopausal Unit
and Endoscopy Surgery
Kaplam Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel
- American Chairperson
Kathryn Sandberg, PhD
Director, Center for the
Study of Sex
Differences in Health,
Aging and Disease
Georgetown University,
Washington, DC , USA
- Congress Secretary
Zeev Shoham, MD
Director, Reproductive Medicine and Infertility Unit
Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel
The idea that the prevention, detection, treatment and outcome
of illness and the phenomenon of aging affect men and women
differently is revolutionizing health care. Men and women
differ in basic aspects of their normal function and the
experience of the same illnesses.
The first Congress will focus on the gender- specific features
in both the normal function and in diseases of the heart and
blood vessels, bone and the central nervous system. Sexual
dysfunction in men and women, menopause and andropause, differences
in drug metabolism and in the physiology of aging will also be
discussed. The Congress is intended for general practitioners
and other healthcare professionals interested in the emerging
science of the differences between men and women. The application
of the new knowledge should improve the morbidity and mortality
of all patients.
The aim of the Congress is to familiarize practitioners
with new developments and the expanding science of
gender-specific medicine, to show how they affect clinical
practice, and to highlight areas for future research. This is
the new direction of medicine and the basis for
the First World Congress on Gender Medicine. For more information
or to register, click here.
The Women's Heart Foundation is a public-supported charity dedicated
to prevention of heart disease and to improving women’s survival and
quality of life. For more information about the Teen Esteem program,
go to www.womensheart.org You may contact WHF by email at
bonnie@womensheart.org and request a free Teen Esteem video CD.
Consultation is by appointment only. WHF, P.O. Box 7827, West Trenton,
NJ 08628.
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