OWHN: Echo: Women's Health Leadership Program Ontario - retreat/training application note deadline dates

Women's Health Leadership Program

Upcoming Women's Health Leadership 101 Retreats:

 Retreat Date: March 7 - 9, 2011 ~ Application Deadline: January 26, 2011

 Retreat Date: March 23 - 25, 2011 ~ 
Application Deadline: February 2, 2011

The Ontario Women's Health Network (OWHN) is currently accepting
applications for the upcoming Women's Health Leadership 101 training
retreats scheduled for March 7-9, 2011 and March 23-25, 2011,
respectively, at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston. Women's Health
Leadership 101 is the first of three graduated training levels that
make up the Women's Health Leadership Program. This is an ongoing
program and further upcoming retreat dates and information will be
announced in the near future.

The program, funded by Echo: Improving Women's Health in Ontario,
seeks to amplify women's voices in the development of health policy,
research and services.

Women's Health Leadership 101 addresses leadership and sex and
gender based analysis in the context of women's health and health
systems in a participatory and supportive environment. It explores
women's own sense of leadership and application of skills, while
enhancing their leadership skills and community networks.

This program is designed for women who are motivated and
interested in women's health issues and who are already actively
engaged in their communities. The program seeks to recruit women
who are committed to being active in women's health issues in their
communities following the retreat.

More information about the program as well as the application package
is available on the OWHN website at: http://www.owhn.on.ca/Women%27s_Health_Leadership.htm

Women who are interested in applying to participate in the Women's
Health Leadership Program should complete application and return
it to OWHN by the appropriate application deadline date (shown above).

We welcome you to share this email widely.

Please do not hesitate to contact OWHN with questions about the
program or application process.

OWHN: 416-408-4840 or toll-free 1-877-860-4545
email: owhn@owhn.on.ca.

magazine: Women’s Health Headlines UT Medical Center’s “Frontiers” Magazine | Tennessee Today

This issue of Frontiers is available in print and online (pdf).
To request a printed copy, contact the UT Graduate School of Medicine at 865-305-9190 or click here.

ENDO (Endocrine) 2010 News Conference - Menopause/Hormones/Aging Women

Monday, June 21

Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: Evidence of Impact (9:30 a.m. PDT): Frontier research on the impact of exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

Menopause: Hormones and the Aging Woman (1:30 p.m. PDT): Release of the Society’s scientific statement on postmenopausal hormone therapy and breaking research on risks associated with menopause and treatment of menopausal symptoms.

Open Poll - Pelvic Exams While Under Anesthesia

Poll is Open
please contribute your views (men & women)
Patients, Consumer and Health Care Professionals

2010 abstract Teaching Pelvic Examinations Under Anaesthesia: What Do Women Think? U of Calgary

Note: This issue of pelvic exams while under anasethesia has been explored in the research in the past   (click on 'read more' to see viewers comments)

Please take the poll and add your views on this issue.............................................

Menopausal Hormone Therapy Use and Risk of Invasive Colon Cancer: The California Teachers Study -- American Journal of Epidemiology

" ....perimenopausal or postmenopausal....

Vesna Kesic: exporting excellence in women’s cancers - Cover Story - Cancer World

Cost-effectiveness analysis of prevention strategies for gynecologic cancers in Lynch syndrome

press release: Women's College Hospital (Toronto) offers Jewish women genetic screening for breast cancer

“Our study identified two major concerns with current breast cancer screening guidelines,” says Dr. Kelly Metcalfe, adjunct scientist at the Women’s College Research Institute and associate professor at the University of Toronto. “The first is that over half of the women we identified with a mutation would never have known that they were at an increased risk of cancer because they were not eligible for genetic testing outside of this study. The second concern was that although 45 per cent of the women with mutations were eligible for genetic testing based on their family history of cancer, none were referred by their health-care provider for screening. "

Will Myriad's Marketing to Mammogram Centers Ease or Fan Over-Testing Concerns with BRACAnalysis? | Pharmacogenomics Reporter

full free access: (2010) Germline Mutations and Polymorphisms in the Origins of Cancers in Women

Note: a good explanation in (close to) plain english on a subject that is anything but easy to understand.

full free access: Is no news good news? Inconclusive genetic test results in BRCA1 and BRCA2 from patients and professionals' perspectives

Small study but included view of patients and physician views.

OCATS requires your help

Message forwarded: website http://www.ocats.ca


H E L P!!!  We know it’s Grey Cup weekend, and Christmas is coming, and we’ve all got better things to do.  But, imagine in the middle of all this our Ministry of Health, without any consultations or even contacting the doctors with urgent and critical issues CANCELLED the meeting where they promised they would finally have a solution for us.

You know that for over a year now, since spring 2008, we’ve been asking for proper support for our gynecologic oncologists serving southern Saskatchewan.  In every other jurisdiction these specialists working in a clinical setting (i.e. a hospital!) with proper medical, nursing, pathology, radiology support.  But OH NO, not in Regina!  Here we expect these doctors to continue struggling to find simple office space to examine their patients and keep files.  They have to go out and find their own nursing, after hours and medical support.  This is beyond BIZARRE!  In the medical issues business, this has got to be something we can actually figure out and fix?  No?

Last meeting, I presented a solution for the interim.  Reimburse the doctors immediately for their private practice space, get a proper nurse in their for them.  This is minimal, while a real solution is sought.  Gov’t response – NONE, NADA.

This meeting was put off because not only is there no solution yet, no one has even contacted the doctors, visited them, observed their needs, nothing.  NADA.  Do we want/need these specialists - highly sought out and highly skilled experts who need to be in the operating room or examining patients – to be out looking for appropriate office space, trying to figure out how to PAY for it, recruiting for their own support staff, filling the supply cabinets????

Remember in the spring when a Regina gyne onc told the media that the working conditions had become unworkable?  This meant the specialists were considering closing their private practices.  This meant patients had to be shipped out of Regina?  Well – they were told a lot of promises, as was OCATS.  They were told a solution would come before Sept 1^st, then they said oh that was summer; we’ll get it done by fall.  Well fall has been deferred til next year!  Enough is Enough!!!!  Evidently the only time the Ministry seriously listens is when women in large numbers speak loudly.  The legislative assembly will be sitting for only a few more days. 

P l e a s e    h e l p    u s    s p e a k    l o u d l y !

Write to:  The Honourable Don McMorris, Minister of Health, Government of Saskatchewan, Minister's Office, Room 302, Legislative Building, 2405 Legislative Drive, Regina, SK, S4S 0B3, Fax (306) 787-0237, minister.he@gov.sk.ca, sophie.ferre@gov.sk.ca

Copy to:  (this is really the job of the Regina Qu’Appelle Health District) Dr. Dwight Nelson, CEO RQHD dwight.nelson@rqhealth.ca, Dr. Chris Vuksic, Chris.Vuksic@rqhealth.ca

And Copy to:  Dwain Lingenfelter, Leader of the Official Opposition and Opposition Health Critic, Judy Junor, c/o Dwight Yasinowsky at dyasinowski@ndpcaucus.sk.ca

cc:  OCATS too please, ocats@ocats.ca

Short, Sweet and To the Point is all you need:

Dear Minister – Ovarian cancer patients don’t have enough time for this continue bureaucratic fumbling.  There are highly paid administrators and executives are various levels who should be able to resolve the issue of poor working conditions for Gynecologic Oncologists serving Southern Saskatchewan.  Enough is enough.  At minimum get these specialist’s office space and support staff in place and paid for before the end of the year.

New Gene for Ovarian Cancer - BNC2 "EYES ON DNA"

New Gene for Ovarian Cancer - BNC2: "In September 2007, I interviewed two women who’d experienced ovarian cancer – Sandi Pniauskas and Carolyn Benivegna. Sadly, Carolyn died a year later but Sandi carries on her work to bring awareness to ovarian cancer. She is urging people to sign the petition for an ovarian cancer awareness postage stamp in memory of Carolyn."

Ovarian Cancer Advocate

Ovarian Cancer Advocate

"This webpage has been established by a group of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer in British Columbia. "