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Petra Weiermayer

Scientific Employee (Post-Doc)

Dr.med.vet. Petra Weiermayer
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CV Petra Weiermayer - 10/2024

Fields of activity

  • One Health
  • Integrative veterinary medicine
  • Homeopathy
  • Clinical practice in equine medicine

Professional activities & internships

10/2024 Visiting scientist at the University Witten-Herdecke, Germany
05/2023 Scientific employee (Postdoc) at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
08/2012 Opening of the veterinary practice Dr. Weiermayer
03/2009 - 03/2014 Clinical Assessor at the Austrian Agency for Food and Health Safety GmbH (AGES)
10/2007 - 09/2008 Internship at the equine clinic of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

Honorary activities

01/2022 Deputy Secretary of the Austrian Umbrella Association for Holistic Medicine
11/2019 Head of the Research Section of WissHom (Society for Scientific Homeopathy)
09/2018 President of ÖGVH (Austrian Society for Veterinary Homeopathy):
scientific, political & public relations

Homeopathic professional training

04/2015 - 08/2019 Specialist Veterinarian for Homeopathy of the Austrian Veterinary Chamber
02/2007 - 03/2009 EAVH (European Academy for Veterinary Homeopathy) - Diploma

Ongoing Projects & Exemplary Scientific Presentations and Publications

09/2024 “Network T&CM alternatives for antibiotics worldwide: Global Initiative for Traditional Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance”, DACh-Epidemiology-Conference, Salzburg

09/2024 “Recommendations in the design and conduction of randomised controlled trials in human and veterinary homeopathic medicine” presented at the 7th International Conference on Traditional Medicine, Ethnomedicine and Natural Therapies, Madrid, Spain

08/2024 „Use of Homeopathy in Patients Suffering from Long COVID-19 (LONGCOVIHOM): A Case Series“ co-published in OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine

07/2024 Book „Prävention und Therapie viraler Epidemien – Immunsystem stärken mit der evidenzbasierten Integrativen Medizin“, ed. Peter Panhofer, Springer Verlag co-published

04/2024 “Network T&CM alternatives for antibiotics worldwide: Global Initiative for Traditional Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance”, poster presentation at Paradigm shifts for Global One Health, University Wageningen, The Netherlands.

04/2024 Assessing the Feasibility of a Two-Cohort Design to Assess the Potential of Homeopathic Medicinal Products to Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance in Turkeys (The HOMAMR Project) – Study Protocol. Baur-Bernhardt et al. Homeopathy co-published PubMed

11/2023 Online research conference on Global Initiative for Traditional Solutions to AMR (GIFTS-AMR, JPIAMR funded). More to

10/2023 Systematic reviews and meta-analyses in Homeopathy: Recommendations for Summarising evidence from Homeopathic Intervention Studies (Sum-HomIS Recommendations). Gaertner et al, Complementary Therapies in Medicine co-published. PubMed

09/2023 Workshop on Global Initiative for Traditional Solutions to AMR (GIFTS-AMR, JPIAMR funded) together with Prof Erik Baars, Prof Esther van der Werf, Prof Desislava Vankova, Dr Merlin Willcox at the World Congress of Integrative Medicine and Health, Rome, Italy. PDF

08/2023 Recommendations in the design and conduction of randomised controlled trials in human and veterinary homeopathic medicine. Gaertner et al, Complementary Therapies in Medicine co-published. PubMed

03/2023 Recommendations for Designing, Conducting and Reporting Clinical Observational Studies in Homeopathic Veterinary Medicine. Weiermayer et al. Homeopathy published. PubMed

05/2021 Adjunctive homeopathic treatment of hospitalized COVID-19 patients (COVIHOM): A retrospective case series Takacs et al. Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice co-published. PubMed 

01/2021 Review "Evidence-based homeopathy and veterinary homeopathy, and its potential to help overcome the antimicrobial resistance problem - an overview" presented in the homeopathy elective at Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

10/2020 Evidence-based homeopathy and veterinary homeopathy, and its potential to help overcome the antimicrobial resistance problem - an overview. Weiermayer et al. Swiss Archives of Veterinary Medicine published. PubMed

11/2019 Symposium on the 12th Antibiotic Day "Integrative medical approach in the antibiotic resistance problem" presented at the Federal Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection, Vienna. Ages

02+05/2018 Wound healing disorder in a horse, associated with antimicrobial resistant bacteria, resolved with a homeopathic medicine - a case report. Weiermayer et al. Equine Veterinary Science published & presented at the World Veterinary Association Congress in Barcelona. Science Direct