Jeanine Roeters van Lennep is associate professor and has been working as internist specialized in vascular medicine at the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands since 2010. She is head of the lipid clinic specialized in hereditary dyslipidemia treating adults and children. She combines this research interest with gender-specific medicine. As such, her scientific research is dedicated to cardiovascular prevention, specifically diagnosis and treatment of Familial Hypercholesterolemia and sex-specific cardiovascular risk factors such as pre-eclampsia for which she obtained grants of e.g. the Dutch Heart Foundation and the Dutch Research Council. She is very eager to share her enthusiasm on sex- and gender specific medicine by organizing educational activities such as the Erasmus Summer Programme Gender and Health Course and mentoring junior (female) doctors and researchers. Jeanine has broad leadership experience as board member of various scientific societies. Currently she is chair of the Dutch Society of Vascular Medicine, chair of the HORIZONSCAN cardiovascular drugs committee of the Dutch National Healthcare Institute and board member of the Dutch Society of Gender and Health. Moreover she has been chair of the first Dutch Guideline on Dyslipidemia. Since 2021 Jeanine is member of the executive board of the European Society