
Dr. rer. medic. Yvette Meißner
Programme Area 2, Scientists
Pharmacoepidemiology
Scientific Background
Since 2024
Scientist at the Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics (20% full time equivalent)
Since 2022
Scientific management of the Rhekiss Register
2017 – 2021
Coordination of the third-party funded project “European Network of Pregnancy Registers in Rheumatology”
2018
Dissertation: “The safety of treatment with biologics in rheumatoid arthritis”, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Since 2017
Research Associate/ PostDoc, Pharmacoepidemiology, Program Area Epidemiology and Health Services Research, DRFZ Berlin
2011 – 2017
PhD student, Pharmacoepidemiology, Program Area Epidemiology and Health Services Research, DRFZ Berlin
2006 – 2011
Editor, EL PATO Agency for Communication, Berlin
2006 – 2009
Pharmacist in public pharmacy
2006
Third state examination in pharmacy, Berlin
2005
Diploma thesis in pharmacy at Saarland University, Saarbrücken
Since 2025
EULAR Recommended Methodologist
2023 – 2024
Co-Methodologist of the EULAR Task Force “Antirheumatic drugs in reproduction, pregnancy, and lactation”
Since 2022
Member of the EULAR Study Group „Reproductive Health & Family Planning”
Since 2021
Member of the Leibniz Postdoc Network – Working Group Career Development
2021
Co-Methodologist of the EULAR Task Force “Remote care in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases”
2019 – 2020
Fellow of the EULAR Task Force “Core Data Set for pregnancy registers in rheumatology”
Peer reviewing activities e.g. for ACR Open Rheumatology, Arthritis Care & Research, Arthritis & Rheumatology, BMC Medicine, Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, European Journal of Neurology, International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases, Nature Scientific Reports, Open Access Rheumatology, RMD Open, Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease
Member of the German Society for Rheumatology and Immunology e.V.
Berlin Chamber of Pharmacists
2025
Participation in the Leibniz Academy for leaders “Developing leadership”
2023
Participation in the DFG Young Scientists Academy for Health Services Research, including acquisition of third-party funding for the project: “Healthcare aspects, course and outcome of pregnancies in women with systemic lupus erythematosus”
2023
Poster prize at the German Congress of Internal Medicine
2022
Anniversary Science Prize of the German Society for Rheumatology and Immunology