Education
Events:
- April 15 - Women’s Health and Sexuality ||
- May 13 - Advocacy Conference ||
- June 10 - Fun and Safety in the Sun ||
- September 9 - Local Candidates Plan for Women’s Health ||
- October 31 - Annual Leadership Conference ||
- November 11 - Environmental Health ||
Women's Health Related Activities
Advocacy Conference
Advancing Women’s Health through Collaboration: Advocacy & Action in Texas:
Featuring: Nancy Dickey, MD Vice Chancellor, Health Affairs, Texas A&M University
- Date: May 13, 2008
Nancy W. Dickey, M.D., is president of the Texas A&M Health Science Center and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs for the Texas A&M System. The Health Science Center is a university that includes the College of Medicine, Baylor College of Dentistry, School of Rural Public Health, Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute for Biosciences and Technology, and other institutes and academic programs. She is committed to making the Health Science Center a significant and energetic agent for health care, science and research in Texas.
Dr. Dickey recently was elected chair-elect of the Association of Academic Health Centers and a member of the Institute of Medicine, a component of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. A former dean and current professor of family and community medicine in the College of Medicine, she is past president of the American Medical Association and founding program director of the Family Practice Residency of the Brazos Valley.
A member of the Board of Trustees of the Scott & White Hospital Foundation, Dr. Dickey has been in numerous professional organizations, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Texas Academy of Family Physicians and the Texas Medical Association. She served on the National Institutes of Health's Advisory Council on Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. More...
Co-sponsored with HAM-TMC Library for the Changing Face of Medicine Exhibit.
Co-sponsored by the Texas Women’s Health Foundation.
WHN's 2008 Second Tuesday Seminars
TMC WHN seminars are held the second Tuesday of each month, 5:30-7 p.m. The usual site is the HAM-TMC Library, 1133 John Freeman Blvd., Ground Level Conference Room (directions and parking information at (http://resource.library.tmc.edu/about/maps.cfm). The programs are free and open to the public. Refreshments are served.
Women’s Health and Sexuality
- Date: April 15, 2008
Please join Judy Norsigian, Our Bodies Ourselves Executive Director to discuss this important new book and childbirth controversies in your community
Judy Norsigian, internationally recognized women’s health advocate and co-founder of Our Bodies Ourselves
Judy Norsigian, executive director and a founder of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective (which does business under the name Our Bodies Ourselves), is a co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause and Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth. Judy speaks and writes frequently on a wide range of women's health concerns, including abortion and contraception, sexually transmitted infections, genetics and reproductive technologies, tobacco and women, women and health care reform, and midwifery advocacy. She has appeared on numerous national television and radio programs, including OPRAH, the TODAY show, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, THE EARLY SHOW and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. She served on the board of the National Women's Health Network for 14 years and currently serves as a board member for Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research.
Judy is a founder and longtime board member of Community Works, which raises funds for Boston area social change organizations through payroll deduction charitable giving programs. Her personal recognitions include: the Public Service Award from the Massachusetts Public Health Association (1989); Radcliffe College Alumnae Association Annual Recognition Award (1995); Boston YWCA's Academy of Women Achievers (1996); the 2002 Massachusetts Health Council Award; and an honorary doctorate degree from Boston University (2007).
For more on Judy Norsigian
Fun and Safety in the Sun
- Date: June 10, 2008
Elise D. Cook, M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention, UTMDACC & Frank Muraglia, Public Affairs officer for the Coast Guard Auxiliary, Houston
Local Candidates Plan for Women’s Health
- Date: September 9, 2008
Annual Leadership Conference
- Date: October 31, 2008
Environmental Health, 45th Anniversary Surgeon General Report on Smoking
- Date: November 11, 2008