Obesity Surgery and Metabolic Surgery, Sana Klinikum Offenbach GmbH
Congress:
14th Frankfurter Meeting, November 2024
"Frankfurt is a cosmopolitan city and a leading location in terms of medical innovation, research and development. Frankfurt is also at the beginning of a therapy for a worldwide pandemic: Adiposis, more commonly known as obesity, is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects some 30% of Germany's population. The struggle for actual recognition of the disease -- not to mention bringing an end to its stigmatisation -- has been behind my endeavours to promote scientific exchange and interdisciplinary networking in Frankfurt for more than 20 years. With its many offers, Frankfurt provides myriad opportunities for exchange, further education and debate, not only in the field of healthcare and medicine, but also on a socio-political level. The "Frankfurt Meeting on Obesity Therapy" was established to this end in 1999 and has since then become internationally renowned for its work in this important field.
As a woman active in medicine, promoting the further recognition of women in society and medicine is of similar importance to me. Together with my female colleagues from Frankfurt's many clinics, we support women and, at the same time, "live" equal rights. As such, all of the events we organise together with our association, named "Die Chirurginnen" (Women Surgeons), are characterised by real-life gender equality."
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