Prof. Irmgard Nippert

Name:  Professor Dr. Irmgard Nippert

Title: Director Womens' Health Research Unit

Address:  Womens' Health Research Unit, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Von-Esmarch-Str. 54, 48149 Münster, Germany

Telephone:  +49-251-83 58410

Fax::  +49-251-83 58415

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Current position:  since 1997 full professorship (Chair for Women's Health Research) and Head of the Research Group Women's Health Research, Universitaetsklinikum Muenster, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Münster, Germany, affiliated with the Department of Human Genetics at the Universitaetsklinikum Muenster Medical School, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany

Irmgard Nippert has been conducting national and international research on the quality of genetic services and on the social and ethical impact of genetic testing (such as: CAGSE, GenEd, Criscom, DADA, et al.) for more than 2 decades and has strong experience both on national and international levels on assessing genetic services provision.

Currently Irmgard is:

• co-ordinator of the 3 year CAPABILITY project ("Capacity Building for the Transfer of Genetic Knowledge into Practice and Prevention: An International Collaborative Network") funded by the European Union, 2007-2009;
• partner of the European Network of Excellence "Genetic Testing in Europe - Network for test development, harmonization, validation and standardization of services" (EuroGentest) funded by the European Union, 2006-2010.

In addition Irmgard runs an international project on genetic risk communication in primary care (InCRisC), participating countries: France, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany and two national research projects on the clinical utility of predictive genetic testing, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2007-2009).

Irmgard holds numerous positions in scientific societies and international organisations. Among others she is:

• President of the "World Alliance of Organizations for the prevention and treatment of genetic and congenital disorders";
• Member of the Ethics Committee of the Muenster Medical School (Ethikkommission des Universitaetsklinikums Muenster und der Aerztekammer Westfalen-Lippe);
• Consultant to the Scientific Council of the Federal Board of Physicians of Germany for Human Reproduction (Beraterin des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Bundesaerztekammer zur assistierten Reproduktion);
• Member of the Ethics Committee of the Federal Board of Physicians of Germany (1998-2007);
• Consultant to the Ethics Committee of the German Society of Human Genetics (Kommission fuer Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit und ethische Fragen der Gesellschaft fuer Humangenetik e.V.) (1994-2004).
• More than 100 publications