Dr. Marianne Legato
Is an internationally renowned academic, physician, author and lecturer. She pioneered the new field of gender-specific medicine, devoted to the differences in men and women’s normal physiology and in their experience of the same diseases. The assumption that apart from reproductive physiology, males and females are not identical in every tissue of the body. As a consequence, our understanding of the pathology of disease, risk factors for illness and treatment decisions were transformed.