Other
Meetings
'Tackling
Taboo Topics'
Friday 9th November 2012
Grand Connaught Rooms, 61 - 65 Great Queen Street, Covent Garden,
London, WC2B 5DA
Our meeting focuses on taboo topics such as domestic violence,
euthanasia, assisted suicide and Female Genital Mutilation, and their impact
on women and the family. The meeting will also look at women doctors' careers,
career progression, women in academic medicine and issues around training.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Attorney General the Right Honourable Baroness Scotland
PC, QC & Patron of the Corporate Alliance Against
Domestic Violence.
The Dame Rosemary Rue Lecture: Baroness Ilora Finlay
Professor of Palliative Medicine.
Dr Rebecca Viney
Mentoring and Coaching Lead, London Deanery
Abstracts (maximum 250 words) are invited on any subject
of interest to women doctors, related either to the theme of the conference,
to the health of women or their families, or to women doctors' careers,
for presentation or as a poster.
Deadline for abstract submission is Friday 5th October 2012
The ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON PRIZE will be awarded
for the best abstract presentation.
WORKSHOPS
To be confirmed
SOCIAL PROGRAMME: To be confirmed
COUNCIL MEETING (open to all members) will be held in the
Council Room at The Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn
Fields from 10.00am - 1pm on Saturday 10th November 2012.
If you are hosting an event relevant to medical women and you would like
it to appear here please e-mail admin.mwf@btconnect.com
