Webinar organized byThe Italian Gender Medicine NetworkMay 6th, 2021

WebinarInternational Society of Gender Medicine 2021

GENDER DIFFERENCES
IN COVID-19 PANDEMIC
AROUND THE WORLDProgramITALIAN GENDER MEDICINE NETWORKGiovannella Baggio - Italian Research Centre for Gender Health and Medicine
Alessandra Caré - Italian National Health Institute
Walter Malorni - Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, RomeTeresita Mazzei - (FNOMCeO) Italian Federation of Medical Councils
Anna Maria Moretti - (GISeG) Italian Group of Gender Medicine
Elena Ortona - Italian National Health Institute
INTERNATIONAL GENDER MEDICINE SCIENTIFIC BOARDPresidentAlexandra Kautzky-Willer (VIENNA - Austria)
Giovannella Baggio (PADUA - Italy)
Gillian Einstein (TORONTO - Canada)
Dov Feldberg (HERZLIYA - Israel)
Marek Glezerman (TEL AVIV - Israel)
Margarethe Hochleitner (INNSBRUCK - Austria)
Ineke Klinge (MAASTRICHT - The Netherlands)

Marianne J. Legato (NEW YORK - USA)
Kateryna Ostrovska (DNIPRO - Ukraine)
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek (BERLIN - Germany)
Hiroaki Shimokawa (NARITA - Japan)
Mia von Euler (STOCKHOLM - Sweden)

RATIONAL
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) led to about 116 million confirmed cases causing almost 2.5 million
related deaths worldwide (8th March 2021). COVID-19 is mainly characterized by a lethal severe acuterespiratory syndrome, but a number of additional clinical manifestations has been described, such as severe
lymphopenia and eosinopenia, extensive pneumonia, a “cytokine storm” leading to acute respiratory
distress syndrome, endothelitis, thrombo-embolic complications and multiorgan failure. Moreover, a seriesof long lasting symptoms have been observed in the post-COVID patients, a syndrome called Long COVID.
In the last months, research studies gained several novel insights as concerns SARS Cov-2 mechanisms
of infection and spreading paralleled by studies on vaccines and specific drugs. However, a surprising
scenario is now emerging from these studies: a significant difference between women and men in thelethality of this infection, higher in men, and in the post-COVID syndrome, likely higher in fertile women.
This webinar, organized by the Italian Gender Medicine Network and under the auspices of the International
Gender Medicine Society, would tackle these open questions. The Italian Journal of Gender Specific Medicine(www.gendermedjournal.it) will participate contributing to the spreading of the scientific results of thewebinar. A series of lectures, specifically devoted to the dissection of this matter, will offer a deeper
analysis of features and mechanisms underlying the observed sex/gender disparity in order to pull on
board different scientific skills and viewpoints.

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Opening remarks		Giovannella Baggio (PADUA - Italy), Alexandra Kautzky-Willer (VIENNA - Austria)				
Introduction		Marianne J. Legato (NEW YORK - USA)13.00-13.10

13.10-14.30		

SESSION IChairs: Alessandra Carè (ROME - Italy), Hiroaki Shimokawa (NARITA - Japan)

Epidemiology at the global level		Athena Pantazis (MASERU - Lesotho)

13.10-13.30

Epidemiology focusing on sex, gender and age		Paula Rochon (TORONTO - Canada)

13.30-13.50

SeXX differences in immune responses to influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viruses		Sabra L. Klein (BALTIMORE - USA)13.50-14.10

Cardiovascular aspects in COVID-19 pandemic: gender differences		Vera Regitz-Zagrosek (ZURICH - Switzerland)

14.10-14.30

14.30-14.40

Break

14.40-16.20SESSION II
Chairs: Marek Glezerman (TEL AVIV - Israel), Alexandra Kautzky-Willer (VIENNA - Austria)		

Clinical and radiological aspects of the lung in COVID-19: sex/gender differences		Stefano Aliberti (MILAN - Italy)

14.40-15.00

Metabolic problems in COVID-19 pandemic: gender differences		Stefano Del Prato (PISA - Italy)

15.00-15.20

15.20-15.40	Consideration on studying drugs and vaccines in women during the Covid 19 pandemic.

The EMA Perspective		Marco Cavaleri (AMSTERDAM - The Netherlands)Long COVID and gender		Athena Akrami (LONDON - United Kingdom)		
16.00-16.20
Psychosocial impact of pandemic and Human Rights: gender differences		 Jing Guo (BEIJING - China)
15.40-16.00

Closing remarks		Teresita Mazzei (FLORENCE - Italy), Walter Malorni (ROME - Italy)		

16.20-16.30

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FACULTY
Athena Akrami
Professor at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre,
University College London (LONDON - UK)

Sabra L. Klein
Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health (BALTIMORE - USA)

Stefano Aliberti
Professor at Department of Pathophysiology andTransplantation, University of Milan (MILAN - Italy)

Marianne J. Legato
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins,
Emerita Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia
University (NEW YORK - USA)

Giovannella Baggio
President of the Italian Research Center for
Gender Health and Medicine, Senior Full Professor
University of Padua (PADUA - Italy)
Alessandra CarèDirector of Center for Gender-specific medicine,
Italian National Institute of Health (ROME - Italy)
Marco Cavaleri
Head of Biological Health Threats and Vaccines
Strategy, EMA (European Medicines Agency)(AMSTERDAM -The Netherlands)
Stefano Dal Prato
Professor of Endocrinology, Dept. of Clinical andExperimental Medicine, University of Pisa
(PISA - Italy)
Marek Glezerman
Professor Emeritus, Obstetrics and Gynecology,Head, Gender and Sex Conscious Medicine, Facultyof Medicine, Tel Aviv University (TEL AVIV - Israel)
Jing Guo
Assistant Professor at Peking University, School of
Public Health (BEIJING - China)

Walter Malorni
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Director of theCenter for Global Health, Catholic University of the
Sacred Heart (ROME - Italy)
Teresita Mazzei
Senior Full Professor University of Florence,
Italian Federation of Medical Councils (FNOMCeO)(FLORENCE - Italy)
Athena Pantazis
Consultant at Global Health 50/50(MASERU - Lesotho)
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek
Senior Professor at Charité Berlin and University ofZurich (ZURICH - Switzerland)
Paula Rochon
Senior Scientist of the Women’s College ResearchInstitute at Women’s College Hospital, Professor ofGeriatrics at the University of Toronto(TORONTO - Canada)
Hiroaki Shimokawa
Vice Dean, Graduate School, International
University of Health and Welfare (NARITA - Japan)

Alexandra Kautzky-Willer
Professor of Gender Medicine, Head of theDepartment of Medicine III and the Division ofEndocrinology and Metabolism of the General
Hospital of Vienna, Medical University of Vienna(VIENNA - Austria)

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GENERAL INFORMATIONORGANIZING SECRETARIATOIC Meeting Solutions

meetingspecialists

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HOW TO REGISTER
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Registration deadline: April 30th, 2021

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The Italian Gender Medicine Network thanks
Fondazione Internazionale Menarini for its unrestricted support
on the webinar

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