Vera is the founding director of the Berlin Institute for Gender in Medicine (GIM) at Charité University Medicine, Germany. From 2011 to 2018, she served as coordinator of the Berlin partner site of the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), a national center of excellence in cardiovascular research. Her research focuses on sex and gender differences in cardiovascular disease, spanning basic science, clinical research, and public health. She is the founding president of both the German and the International Society for Gender Medicine and coordinated the European Society of Cardiology guidelines on cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy in 2012 and 2018. In recognition of her pioneering work, she was awarded the First-Class Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2018. The following year, she joined the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich as a visiting professor, advising on the integration of sex- and gender-specific knowledge into medical education. Since then, she has also supported the Gebhard Lab as a senior advisor, contributing to numerous projects on sex and gender in cardiovascular and intensive care medicine.

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