Irmgard Nippert, M.D.

Professor (chair for women's health research, affiliated with the Department of Human Genetics, Wesfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Medical School, Germany)

Current position:

Professor (chair for women's health research, affiliated with the Department of Human Genetics, Wesfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Medical School, Germany)

Degrees:

Habilitation (Medical Sociology, Wesfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Medical School, Germany)

PhD (Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany)

Diplom (Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany)

Research:

Predictive genetic testing: Evaluating the quality of genetic care, multicentre study (2000-2002), funded by the German Human Genome Project of the Germany Ministry of Science and Technology.

The health related quality of life of women with congenital malformations caused by Thalidomide (1998-2000), funded by IMF and the Ministry of Education, Science and Research North Rhine-Westphalia.

Decision making after prenatal diagnosis of a fetal abnormality: describing the present to improve the future (1996-1999), in cooperation with Theresa Marteau, London, UK and Ségolène Aymé, Paris, France, funded by European Commission of the European Union BIOMED2.

International workshop: The new genetics: From research into health care - social and ethical implications for users and providers, Berlin, Germany, June 5-6, 1997, funded by the German Ministry of Science and Technology.

Multidisciplinary study on implementing and evaluating BRCA1/2 carrier testing (1997-2000), in cooperation with W. Böcker, B. Dworniczak; B. Dockhorn-Dworniczak; J. Horst, H. P. G. Schneider, N. Willich, funded by the Deutsche Krebshilfe.

International study: Evaluating Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening Development in Northern Europe: Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom (1992), funded by the European Commission of the European Union, ESLA.

International workshop on Evaluating Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening Development in Northern Europe, Copenhagen, Nov. 1992, funded by the European Commission of the European Union, ESLA.

Advisor to the Federal Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany on Prenatal Genetic Service Provision, including a research grant from the Federal Parliament (1992).

Ethical and social impact research in human genetics in Germany, two projects, one project in close collaboration with D. Wertz and J. Fletcher, U.S.A. (1992-1995).

Prof. Dr. Irmgard Nippert
Institut für Humangenetik
Wesfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Vesaliusweg 12-14,D-48149 Münster

Tel.: 49-251-8355408
Fax.: 49-251-8356695
E-mail: nippert@uni-muenster.de