Renate Haidinger
Therapy
Psychology
Hohenbrunn, Germany
Renate Haidinger is a Medical Journalist, Consultant, Founder, and President of the German Breast Cancer Association – Brustkrebs Deutschland e.V. Following completion of Renate’s university-entrance diploma, she worked as a freelance journalist, specializing in psychology and medicine in 1987. In December 2000, Mrs. Haidinger was diagnosed with breast cancer. After several surgeries and chemotherapy, she founded a local advocacy group, brustkrebs-muenchen e.V., in December 2001, and in 2003 co-founded the nationwide organization Brustkrebs Deutschland e.V. (German Breast Cancer Association) with a group of doctors, breast cancer patients, and others. From 2002 Mrs. Haidinger began offering a weekly consultation session at the Munich University Clinic, Munich-Grosshadern.
Since 2005 she has professionally attended all relevant breast cancer conferences, recording video interviews with German experts and live streams from ASCO and SABCS. She writes content for several breast cancer websites and brochures, moderates podium discussions, and gives multiple annual presentations on HTA issues and market access, among other topics concerning patients.
She has been a member of numerous advocacy, advisory boards, and working groups, and holds memberships with many breast cancer societies. She also works with the European Medicines Agency and the European Commission and is an appointed member of the innovative medicines initiative pool of patient experts. At the virtual ABC6 conference in 2021 she was a member of the patient advocacy committee, faculty and panel member as well as co-chair of the consensus meeting.
In recent years she has worked for the ABC Global Alliance and was elected “Director of the General Assembly” in 2019. She has co-authored many breast cancer publications listed in PubMed. In 2012 Mrs. Haidinger received the Federal Cross of Merit from the German President, Joachim Gauck.
