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About the Health of Women Conference

The annual Health of Women conference (formerly the Congress on Women’s Health), has become the premier interdisciplinary women’s health conference in the U.S. and includes a speaker program with experts on a broad range of topics (including reproductive health, cardiovascular health, breast health, bone health, mental health), poster sessions, and national awards for outstanding research, leadership, and public policy & advocacy in women’s health.

Health of Women Conference 2025
Friday, May 2, 2025, 7:45 AM - 5:10 PM EST, Hilton Richmond Hotel & Spa/Short Pump, Richmond, VA
Target Audience
Specialties - Behavioral Health, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Family Practice, General Internal Medicine, General Practice, Gynecology, Hospital Medicine , Multiple Specialties, Neurology, Nurse Midwife, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing, Ob/Gyn, Oncology, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician, Physician Assistant, Physicians, Psychology, Public Health, Rheumatology, Women's Health

Overview
The Health of Women 2025 is designed with you in mind. We follow our well established and successful approach of addressing women's health across the life span and will address the challenges and implications sex and gender medicine. We have put it all together for you in a one day in-person conference, filled with engaging lectures and discussions. We have carefully crafted an agenda catering to the learning needs of primary care and Ob/Gyn physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants and other healthcare professionals and learners focused on women’s health.
Objectives
  1. Describe recent advances in screening and treatment of topics related to women's health, as it relates to congestive heart failure and cardio metabolic disorders.
  2. Describe the pertinent current screening strategies for cervical cancer screening, utilizing the most recent screening guidelines.
  3. Identify evidenced based strategies currently in use with patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
  4. Explain how to provide care, counsel and education to patients with Substance-Use Disorder and provide tools to overcome barriers to recovery.
  5. Summarize the most current evidenced-based diagnosis and management strategies to address successful diabetic care with women.
  6. Recall evidence-based approaches to the management of gestational complications and cardiac risk in the pregnant patient.
  7. Review the most current research to treat genitourinary symptoms with vaginal estrogen.
  8. Discuss the impact of current and future national research in women's health
  9. Identify cutting-edge approaches to challenging cases of osteoporosis.

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Health of Women 2025 Award Winners

Bernadine Healy Award for Visionary Leadership in Women’s Health -Carolyn Mazure, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine
Vivian Pinn Award for Excellence in Women’s Health Research - Janet Rich-Edwards, ScD, MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Women's Health Public Policy & Advocacy Award - Rachel Rubin, MD, Georgetown University Hospital


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Addressing Women's Health Across the Lifespan: Health of Women Conference '25

Pre-conference Symposium

VCU Health of Women Conference 2025 SWHR Pre-conference Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm ET | Virtual
This session is presented by Society for Women's Health Research. No CME or CEU credit is offered.
Separate registration is required for this complimentary session. 
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Emerging Topics in Women’s Health: Minding the Depression Gap
The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) is committed to making women’s health mainstream by promoting research on biological sex differences and increasing awareness of health conditions and diseases that disproportionately, differently, or exclusively affect women. Depressive disorders – one of the leading contributors to disability – have a disproportionate prevalence and impact on women. Depressive disorders include both major depressive disorder (MDD) and persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia), and from 2015 to 2018, there were statistically significant increases in major depressive episodes among adolescent girls (ages 12-17) and young adult women (ages 18-25). This symposium will discuss the impacts of depressive disorders on women’s health, with special emphasis on chronic depression, physiological sex differences in disease, and disparities in clinical care. Panelists will present strategies as to how research, clinical, and policy stakeholders can collaborate to address persistent research gaps, disparities, and unmet needs in treating depression in women. Attendees will then engage in Q&A with the panel to discuss approaches to improve mental health outcomes for women across the lifespan.

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