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Pre-Conference Activities*
Thursday, March 25


AMWA/Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill - All Congress attendees invited


7:00-9:30 Continental Breakfast & Advocacy training


10:00-3:30 Meetings with Legislators & Tours or Gallery Observation


4:00 Debriefing


5:00-8:00 Conference Registration


6:00-7:30 Opening Reception in Partnership with the AMA
Reaching Equity, Closing the Gaps

Rebecca Patchin, MD
Chair, American Medical Association Board of Trustees


PLENARY
Friday, March 26


6:15 Yoga (optional)


7:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast


8:00 Tobacco Cessation in Women: Treatment Challenges and Opportunities

Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA
Professor of Medicine
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health

9:00 Update on the Management of Osteoporosis

Susan Greenspan, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Center
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

9:45 Break and Posters


10:15 Shedding Light on Vitamin D

Michael Holick, PhD, MD
Professor of Medicine, Physiology & Biophysics
Boston University School of Medicine

11:00 Lipid Management in Women: An Evidence-Based Approach

Emma Meagher, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine and Pharmacology
University of Pennsylvania Health System

11:45 Luncheon Presentation
New Concepts in Breast Cancer Biology and Treatment

Larry Norton, MD
Deputy Physician-in-Chief for Breast Cancer Programs
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

1:15 Trudy Bush Lecture
Hormones and Cognition: A Scientific Update

Pauline Maki, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Psychology
University of Illinois at Chicago

2:00 Family Planning: Public Health & Private Lives

David Grimes, MD
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
University of North Carolina School of Medicine

2:45 Break and Posters


3:15 Management of Psychiatric Disorders in Pregnancy & Postpartum

Lee Cohen, MD
Director, Perinatal & Reproductive Psychiatry Clinical Research Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

4:00 Contraception: News You Can Use

Patricia Sulak, MD
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Texas A&M University Health Science Center
Scott & White Hospital & Clinic

4:45 For Her Eyes Only: Ocular Diseases in Women

Janine Austin Clayton, MD
Deputy Director, Office of Research on Women's Health
National Institutes of Health

5:45 Congress Poster Reception


7:30 Leaders in Women's Health Research Keynote
Women and Heart Disease: Advances in Diagnosis & Management

Noel Bairey Merz, MD
Director & Endowed Chair, Women's Heart Center
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles


Saturday, March 27


6:15 Yoga (optional) - embrace the day with yoga


7:00 Breakfast Symposium
Menopausal Symptoms: Challenges in Treatment

Anne Moore, MSN, RNC, FAANP
Professor of Nursing
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing

8:30 Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: Clinical Pearls

Patricia Sulak, MD
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Texas A&M University Health Science Center
Scott & White Hospital & Clinic

9:15 Caring for Women in Pain: A Practical Approach

Leanne Yanni, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

10:00 Break and Posters


10:30 Using Health Literacy to Improve Women's Health: The Clinician's Role

Ruth Murphy Parker, MD
Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine

11:15 Caring for the Older Woman: Less is More

Michele Bellantoni, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Geriatrics & Gerontology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

12:00 Luncheon Presentation
Breastfeeding: A Clinical Imperative

Michelle Brenner, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Eastern Virginia Medical School
E. Stephen Buescher, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Eastern Virginia Medical School

1:30 Current Concepts in PCOS & Metabolic Syndrome

John Nestler, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chair, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

2:30 Preventive Health in Women: Missed Opportunities

Melissa McNeil, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Chief, Section of Women's Health
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

3:15 Break and Posters


3:45 Fibromyalgia: Old Myths, New Directions

Daniel Clauw, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine & Psychiatry
Director, Chronic Pain & Fatigue Research Center
University of Michigan Medical School

4:30 Fibroid Management in 2010

Catherine Matthews, MD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

5:30 Adjourn

Yoga (optional)


5:30 AMWA Student Mentoring Reception


7:00 AMWA 95th Anniversary and Awards Gala

Guest Speaker: Vivian Pinn, MD
Director, Office of Research on Women's Health
National Institutes of Health

Sunday, March 28


AM

6:15 Yoga (optional)


7:00 Breakfast Symposium
Pelvic Floor Disorders: What You Need to Know

Catherine Matthews, MD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

8:30 Spells, Swoons & Syncope: Evaluating Dizziness & Palpitations

Fred Kusumoto, MD
Director, Electrophysiology & Pacing Service
Associate Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic

9:25 Partner Violence Against Women: Prevention & Intervention

Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN
Anna D. Wolf Chair & Professor of Nursing
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing


10:15 Break


10:45 Infertility: The ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) & the Science

Marcelle Cedars, MD
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Director, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology
University of California, San Francisco

11:35 HPV: Fundamentals of Prevention, Testing, and Treatment

Kathleen McIntyre-Seltman, MD
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Magee-Women's Hospital
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

12:30 Adjourn


*Please note that all pre-conference activities are non-CME/CNE.


Please note that the schedule may be subject to change.