BIOGRAPHY

Klaas Heinemann

Klaas Heinemann leads ZEG Berlin in providing data of quality and integrity to pharmaceutical companies. Klaas sets the organization’s overall direction for its work in pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety.
  • Klaas Heinemann

    Managing Director

Klaas Heinemann is a physician and epidemiologist who has headed ZEG Berlin since 2009 and sits on the Kantar Health Europe management board. The principal investigator for many studies, Klaas provides strategic direction as ZEG-Berlin diversifies beyond women’s health studies to bring its data methodology to other realms of health.

Klaas trained in internal medicine at Charite University Hospital, Berlin before completing postgraduate masters degrees in business and administration (Berlin School of Economics, Berlin), and epidemiology (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London). Prior to his appointment as managing director, Klaas was an external consultant for ZEG Berlin. Previously he worked in the US and Germany as a Medical Expert in Global Medical Affairs at Schering AG and later Bayer Pharma, planning and managing clinical research focusing on Phase III clinical studies and post-market phase IV study design.

PUBLICATIONS

Prospective controlled cohort study on the safety of a monophasic oral contraceptive containing nomegestrol acetate (2.5mg) and 17β-oestradiol (1.5mg) (PRO-E2 study): risk of venous and arterial thromboembolism Reed Suzanne, Koro Carol, DiBello Julia, Becker Kerstin, Bauerfeind Anja, Franke Christian, Klaas Heinemann European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care. 2021; 1 – 8. 10.1080/13625187.2021.1987410 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13625187.2021.1987410
Thromboembolic safety profile of low-dose estradiol (valerate) in combined hormonal preparations: Implications for the development of new hormonal endometriosis and uterine fibroid therapies Clare Barnett, Bauerfeind Anja, von Stockum Sophia, Klaas Heinemann Journal of Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Disorders. 2021; 1 – 10. 10.1177/22840265211019546. https://doi.org/10.1177/22840265211019546