Long acting reversible contraception (LARC) has been shown to be an effective pregnancy prevention strategy for women’s health in other communities. Could greater LARC utilization lead to better health outcomes for women and children in Milwaukee?
Join health practitioners and diverse stakeholders in women and children’s health to further our collective understanding of the science, learn about successful models of LARC implementation in other communities, and explore the best strategies for Milwaukee.
Renaisa Anthony, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor Department of Health Promotion and Social and Behavioral Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health
Kathy King, MD
Medical Director, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin
Assistant Professor, Department of OBGYN, Medical College of Wisconsin
Learn More about the Annual Women’s Health Conference
Time | Topic |
---|---|
7:30 - 8:00 | Registration, Exhibits & Continental Breakfast |
8:00 - 8:50 | Optimizing Pregnancy Outcomes Through Preconception Consultation and Appropriate Contraceptive Counseling Jennifer McIntosh, DO |
8:50 - 9:40 | Genetic Counseling and Women’s Health Morgan Depas, |
9:40 - 10:00 | EXHIBIT BREAK |
10:00 - 10:50 | Management of Abnormal Pap Screening Kathy King, MD |
10:50 - 11:40 | Breast Cancer Screening Anna C. Purdy, MSN, ANP |
11:40 - 12:40 | EXHIBIT BREAK & LUNCH |
12:40 - 1:30 | Leveraging Diversity & Inclusion to Deliver an Exceptional Patient Experience Andres Gonzalez, MEd., CCDP/AP |
1:30 - 2:20 | The Evaluation and Treatment of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) in 2016 Kate Schoyer, MD |
2:20 - 2:35 | EXHIBIT BREAK |
2:35 - 3:25 | Obesity and Weight Loss in Women’s Health Srividya Kidambi, MD, MS |
3:25 - 4:15 | Urinary Incontinence in Geriatrics Population Lubna Sorathia, MD |
4:15 - 4:30 | EVALUATION & WRAP UP |
Our Women’s Mental Health Psychologist Dr. Abbey Kruper, Education Curriculum & Instruction faculty Dr. Kristina Kaljo, and Obstetrician/Gynecologist Dr. Seema Menon are presenting their research poster at MCW’s Community Engagement Week 2017: Elevating Community Voices in Health.
Student-Centered Learning – Implementing a Sexual and Behavioral Health Curriculum with Adolescent Students
We have multiple faculty who will be presenting their research posters at MCW’s 2017 Innovations in Medical Education Conference.
Learn More about the Annual Women’s Health Conference
Please join the Kern Institute, Department of Medicine and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for an interactive dialogue.
Have you ever witnessed events that challenged professionalism but didn’t speak up or follow up? Let’s have a discussion about being courageous and speaking up in a professional way to improve our culture of caring and character.
Catherine (Cassie) Craun Ferguson, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Kristina Kaljo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Michael Lund, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Martin Muntz, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
By attending this session, participants will:
The Council for Women’s Advocacy and the Center for AWSM are hosting Dr. Kate Dielentheis and Dr. Mona Farez for a presentation on work-life balance: “Say Yes By Saying No”.
Learn about prevention, detection and treatment of HPV.
Presentation by: William Bradley, MD, Gynecologic Oncologist Physician.
Register online by going to Froedtert Health’s Classes and Events
Please join the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for the Student-Centered Pipeline to Advance Research in Cancer Careers (SPARCC) Cancer Research Summit and graduation on August 7, 2020, from 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. This will be a virtual event, where the scholars will have the opportunity to share their research and open it up for questions and brief discussions for each presentation. We will conclude the event by “presenting” graduation certificates and acknowledging each scholar’s participation this summer.
10:30-11:30 a.m.: Research Presentations – Topics are centered on “wicked problems” found in cancer-specific research.
11:30 a.m.-12 p.m.: Graduation Ceremony – SPARCC Co-Directors Janet Rader, MD, and Kristina Kaljo, PhD, will present each of the scholars with a certificate of completion.
If you would like to attend, please email us at sparcc@mcw.edu.
SPARCC is an intensive 8-week summer program that immerses undergraduate students from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical research in the complexities of clinical cancer research. To learn more, please visit obgyn.mcw.edu/sparcc.