Anna-Luisa Häcker, PhD

Anna-Luisa Häcker, PhD

Researcher - currently open for new opportunities.

Biography

Anna-Luisa Häcker did her PhD about cardiovascular risk of patients with congenital heart disease, where she analyzed the predicted 10-year-risk of a major cardiovascular event based on the PROCAM® score, using different blood parameters. Further research included the association of the metabolic syndrome on the intima-media thickness of the Arteria carotis communis. In addition, the arterial stiffness was examined in children with congenital heart disease and compared to heart-healthy children.

She has been on parental leave since the end of 2018, raising two girls. In September and October 2022, she worked as a guest researcher in the field of pediatric oncology at the University of Copenhagen. She would like to return to work in the spring of 2023.

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Interests
  • (co-) creating research ideas and bringing them to life
  • communication from science to practice
  • clinical work and studies - close to the people
Education

  • PhD (Dr. rer. nat) about Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease, 2020

    Technical University of Munich

  • M. Sc. Health Science - Prevention & Health Promotion, 2016

    Technical University of Munich

  • B. Sc. Scientific Principles of Sports, 2014

    Technical University of Munich

Skills

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Statistics with R & SPSS
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Carotid Ultrasound
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Patient Management

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Guest researcher
Paediatric Oncology Research Laboratory BonkoLab, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen
Sep 2022 – Oct 2022 Copenhagen, Denmark

Responsibilities include:

  • Planning and writing a proposal for a new pilot study
  • Co-authorship in a review paper about exercise safety in pediatric oncology
  • Insight and support in sports exercises in the lab’s intervention programs
  • Build and strenghten the cooperation between the labs in Copenhagen and Munich
 
 
 
 
 
PhD student
German Heart Centre
Jan 2017 – Dec 2018 Munich, Germany

Responsibilities include:

  • Analyzing intima media thickness
  • Analyzing arterial stiffness
  • Patient management
  • Teaching assignment
 
 
 
 
 
Researcher
Sainte-Justine Children’s Hospital
Apr 2016 – Sep 2016 Montréal, Canada

Responsibilities include:

  • Research and paper publication
  • Attending to behavioral interventions and sports classes for overweight and obese children and teenagers
 
 
 
 
 
Researcher
Chair of Preventive Pediatrics, Technical University of Munich
Jan 2014 – Dec 2018 Munich, Germany

Responsibilities include:

  • Measuring of flow mediated dilatation
  • Teaching assignments

Accomplish­ments

AEPC 2018 Oral Poster Presentation Price
AEPC May 2018
Third place for the best oral poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association for European Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology, 2018, Athens, Greece
International Placement Scholarship
Bavarian Research Alliance Apr 2015
My research stay in Montréal was partly funded by a scholarship awarded by the Bavarian Research Alliance.

Recent Publications

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Michael Meyer, Yi Wang, Leon Brudy, Anna-Luisa Häcker, Thorsten Schulz, Heidi Weberruss, Renate Oberhoffer, Peter Ewert, Jan Müller (2022). Impaired grip strength in children with congenital heart disease. Archives of Disease in Childhood.

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Anna-Luisa Häcker (2020). Cardiovascular risk in patients with congenital heart disease.

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Leon Brudy, Julia Hock, Anna-Luisa Häcker, Michael Meyer, Renate Oberhoffer, Alfred Hager, Peter Ewert, Jan Müller (2020). Children with congenital heart disease are active but need to keep moving: a cross-sectional study using Wrist-Worn physical activity Trackers. The Journal of Pediatrics.

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Barbara Reiner, Renate Oberhoffer, Anna-Luisa Häcker, Peter Ewert, Jan Müller (2020). Is Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Increased in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease?. Journal of the American Heart Association.

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Angeles Fuertes Moure, Michael Meyer, Anna-Luisa Haecker, Barbara Reiner, Leon Brudy, Sonia Pertega-Diaz, Renate Oberhoffer, Peter Ewert, Jan Mueller (2020). Longitudinal Health-Related Quality of Life Assessment in Children with Congenital Heart Disease. CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE.

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