95th Anniversary AMWA Annual Meeting to Be Held in Arlington, VA in March 2010

The 95th Anniversary AMWA Annual Meeting will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, VA, from Friday, March 26 through Sunday March 28, 2010.   

Attendees can win up to $2,000 for a great poster presentation, be awarded one of 22 national leadership positions, receive travel grants and network with powerhouse women physicians and students from across the United States.  Applications for leadership positions, travel grants and poster abstracts must be received by Monday, February 15, 2010.

Dr. Janine Clayton, Deputy Director of the Office of Research on Women's Health at the National Institute of Health (NIH), will be the keynote speaker of the Student Track.  The topic of her program will be "How to Balance it All."  Doctors without Borders/Medecines Sans Frontiers will also present at the AMWA Student Track.  They will discuss how to volunteer with their organization and how to treat issues pertaining to women's health in third world countries. 

All AMWA Student Track attendees will receive these complementary gifts:

¨        AMWA T-shirt

¨        Jewelry made from women villagers in Ddegeya Village, Uganda

¨        AMWA Program, Women in Science and the NIH Mentoring Workshop Manuals

¨        Other goods from the Women's Health Congress

This is a joint conference with the Women's Health Congress (WHC).  A prestigious group of more than 1,000 physicians, nurses, allied healthcare providers and medical students will gather outside Washington, DC on March 26-28, 2010 to learn practical, clinical information and cutting-edge therapeutic protocols, advances in diagnosis and management, and innovative translational research advances that impact women’s health care.

For more information on the 2010 AMWA Conference, please contact:  2010amwaconference@gmail.com or visit:  http://sites.google.com/site/amwaconference2010/home

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About American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA)
The American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) is an organization of women physicians, medical students and other persons dedicated to serving as the unique voice for women's health and the advancement of women in medicine. The organization was founded by Dr. Bertha VanHoosen in 1915 in Chicago, at a time when women physicians were an under-represented minority. As women in medicine increase in numbers, new problems and issues arise that were not anticipated. AMWA has been addressing these issues for 93 years. AMWA functions at the local, national and international level to advance women in medicine and improve women’s health by providing and developing leadership, advocacy, education, expertise, mentoring and through building strategic alliances.  The American Women’s Hospital Service (AWHS), a program within AMWA, has agreed to cover the salary of the Engeye Clinic’s nurse on an ongoing basis, which translates to $170.00 a month.  The AMWA is located at: 100 North 20th Street, 4th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103. The phone number is: 215-320-3716 and the website is: http://www.amwa-doc.org/