Newsflash: New Gender Equity Campaign, Last Call for Annual Meeting Speakers & AMWA BOD Applications

American Medical Women's Association

Newsflash — August 5, 2021

AMWA Partners in a Campaign to Promote Gender Equity in Medicine:

#GiveHerAReasonToStay in Healthcare

Order a custom mask ($5) for September Women in Medicine Month. Post to social media starting Sept. 1 using the hashtags #GiveHerAReasonToStay and #WomenInMedicine. Tag @AMWADoctors. JOIN

SAVE THE DATE

AMWA Annual Meeting — March 24-26, 2022 (Virtually)

Theme: AMWA Innovates

FINAL CALL for SPEAKERS. Deadline Aug 8

Seeking keynote presentations, panel topics and speakers, and workshops

CALL for POSTERS & CLINICAL HOT TOPICS

Submissions Due Oct 4.

UPCOMING EVENTS & PROGRAMS

August is National Immunization Awareness Month . Members are urged to encourage patients of all ages to get necessary vaccinations in addition to the Covid vaccine. Also, for Civic Health Month members can JOIN and support healthy communities, driving voter registration, and amplifying civic voices in healthcare. Learn more HERE

Aug. 7-15. AMWA joins Made to Save and HHS for Back to School Week of Action. Get involved in promoting COVID vaccines in your community around these efforts. SIGN UP

Aug. 6, 13, 20, 8 pm ET. Come together virtually and learn to Dance Bhangra with AMWA's Dance & Theater Community. REGISTER

Aug 18, 4 pm ET. Join iGiant Sports Summit to explore the impact of gender and sex on innovation and novel technologies for the sports sector. REGISTER

Help Physicians Against The Trafficking of Humans (AMWA-PATH) raise program funds. Check the raffle and bid for a worthy cause. RAFFLE

MEMBER OPPORTUNITIES

Join the AMWA Board of Directors or become an officer. Positions open for

President-Elect, Treasurer, and Board Member-at-Large. Deadline Aug 7.

Officer Application Board Application

AMWA to launch a new interactive membership database this month. Look out for an email with information on how update your member profile, sign up for committees, engage in forums, and join the speaker's bureau.

AWMA's Music and Medicine and Humanities Community partners with Rutgers Women’s Health Institute to launch the Humanities and Healing: An Arts in Medicine Journal. Accepting personal essays; video musical performances; dance, theater and visual arts; and media. Submissions require AMWA membership. Submissions Due Oct 15, 2021. SUBMIT

Nominate Someone for our 2022 Physician Awards. Deadline Sept 30. NOMINATE

The Lila Wallis Women's Health Award is granted to a woman physician who has made exceptional contributions to medical science. Alyson McGregor, MD was the 2021 award recipient.

Interested in Equity & Justice in Reproductive Health? AMWA is looking for a physician liaison to the Institute for Health and Justice Reproductive Health Group to represent AMWA at meetings & submit written quarterly summaries to the board. CONTACT US

Elevate Theater is looking for stories to capture health and healthcare perspectives from the COVID-19 pandemic. LEARN MORE

MEMBERS In the NEWS

AMWA Seeking physicians to speak about experiences with fake patient reviews for a National News Story. RSVP HERE

Kim Templeton, MD, co-authored, Bone Mineral Density Surveillance for Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivors: Evidence-based recommendations. READ

ADVOCACY

AMWA joins a Joint Statement in Support of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for All Workers in Health and Long-Term Care. READ

AMWA Issues Statement on Vaccine Promotion in Tennessee. READ

Katrina Green, MD. and Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, AMWA Advocacy Committee, publish Letter to the Editor: Firing Fiscus Political and Dangerous. READ

AMWA joins other healthcare associations to promote Climate, Health, and Equity: Recommendations for the Department of Health and Human Services. READ

Visit the AMWA Advocacy Timeline for updated activities.