

Burning Bright without Burning Out – Congratulations VMWS
Congratulations VMWS for hosting this event with Women in Medicine AMA! See the event.
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The next AFMW Council Meeting will be held Tuesday 7 February 2023.
Hosted by Doctors for Nutrition, the Australasian Nutrition in Healthcare Conference brings a truly unique learning opportunity to Melbourne from February 17-19 2023.
EVENT: Our next chat will be held Wednesday 22 Feb 2022 8-9PM AEDT, hosted by Associate Professor Magdalena Simonis, AFMW President. The AFMW Fireside Chats are a safe space filled with kindness and trust where you can meet other medical women and talk about the challenges you're facing. Come, bring a friend who is not a member but think will benefit from having access to our Circle of Kindness.
Being held 17 March and 25 March 2023, Monash University is again running an introductory course in Sexual Medicine and Therapy. This 2-day online multidisciplinary course on Sexuality and Sexual Difficulties, is relevant for all health practitioners, trainees and students. It will discuss the need to talk about sex, address the obstacles, and will empower the registrants to raise and discuss topics of sexuality and sexual difficulties with their patients.
31 MAR - SAVE THE DATE: Proud to be invited to present at the upcoming Health Summit, hosted annually by Women & Leadership Australia. The preliminary programme outline is here. Save the date!
Congratulations VMWS for hosting this event with Women in Medicine AMA! See the event.
(POST UPDATED 17 July) On Tuesday 5 July 2022, we celebrated the recipients of the inaugural 2021 Purple Bush Medicine Leaves Bursaries and the launch of the inaugural Queensland based (NCWQ QMWS) Bursary sponsored by Mater. We are very grateful to the many distinguished guests who attended and supported this event, and hope it will become a template for an annual NAIDOC event in future, to be rotated nationally.
[RECAP] Proud to be invited to talk gender and climate change with my Greek friends at Food for Thought on Sunday 22nd May regarding the agency of CALD women and how we can influence our communities to advocate for renewable energy and the health of the planet. Founder of Food For Thought (FFT), a Greek Australian Women’s Group, Varvara Athanasiou-Ioannou and FFT patron Professor Vasso Apostolopoulos and I have enjoyed sharing our ideas on a variety of issues.
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