Autumn Meeting 2012
'Tackling Taboo Topics'
Friday 9th November
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
Networking for the medical profession
Careers support and Advice
End of life issues
Coaching for Health
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.
