Malene H.

Today we’re getting under the hood of Malene Hegenberger a mother, daughter, sister, friend, women’s advocate, innovator, midwife, and founder of Hegenberger Speculum

Malene was educated as a licensed nurse in Denmark in 1998. After working in neonatal care at Kings College Hospital in London, she attended midwifery school in Bergen, Norway, completing her studies in 2002. She worked as a midwife and nurse in Norway, St.Kitts in the West Indies, Denmark, and the USA. She is currently a perineal specialist midwife at Slagelse Hospital in Denmark and is the inventor and developer of the Hegenberger Retractor. Malene is the second midwife to invent an obstetric tool since the French midwife Anne-Marie Boivin (17773-1841). 

Malene founded the company HegenbergerSpeculum in 2017 and completed a successful exit of the Hegenberger Retractor in 2021 to a British company and is now the director of global training and Innovation for HegenbergerMedical.

Malene is teaching midwives and doctors in suturing post-partum tears in Denmark and is a role model for other entrepreneurs with good clinical products. Malene has a keen interest in innovation within female health and has been nominated as one of the InnoWomen in Denmark 2024.  Malene is also a board member of the organization GRO in Denmark – an NGO organization and shelter for women living in an abusive relationship.

Listen to Malene’s story.

Malene.hegenberger@hegenbergermedical.com
Website https://hegenbergermedical.com/