32nd International MWIA Triennial Congress, 2022, 24-26 June Taipei, Taiwan, Taipei International Convention Centre
Abstract Submission Deadline 28 February 2022
Closing dates for abstract submissions is drawing nigh so I urge you to give some thought to presenting at the international congress in 2022.
Click here to submit your abstract.
Notification of acceptance is March 15 2022.
The themes are as follows:
- Mandating Sex and Gender Health Education in Medical Schools: what we learn from global efforts
- Work Life Balance
- Eye and New Vision in Ophthalmology
- Infectious Diseases – Emerging Infections, COVID-19, Enteroviruses
- Prenatal and Newborn Screening and Genetic Disorders
- Women’s Roles in Medical Education – Challenges and Opportunities
- Family and workplace violence
- Women Doctors as Positive Strengths in Oncology
- Women in Palliative Care: hoping for the best and preparing for the worst – helping patients achieve their best in palliative care
- Medical Women in Policy Making and Public Affairs
- Precision Medicine in Women’s Cancer: leave no actionable mutation behind
- Women’s Health and the Prevention of Unplanned Teenage Pregnancies
- Adolescent Contraception
- How Women Experience Neurologic Diseases Differently
- Women Physicians and Social Media: advocacy and education
- Applying the Gender Lens to Mental Health Research and Practice: a cross -cultural analysis
- Update in Dermatology
- Returning Healthy Breasts to Young Women with Breast Cancer
- Infectious Disease: viral hepatitis
- Education Innovation and Frontiers of Research in Dentistry.
On behalf of the MWIA Scientific and Research Subcommittee of which I am co-Chair, we look forward to seeing many Australian medical women share their latest research and expertise at this international Congress. I had the great pleasure of attending the MWIA WP Conference in Taipei in April 2015 – here are some photos of this event.
Magdalena Simonis
National Coordinator, AFMW
President AFMW
Associate Professor Magdalena Simonis AM is the Immediate Past President of the AFMW (2020-2023), former President of VMWS (2013 & 2017-2020) and current AFMW National Coordinator (2024-2026). She is a full time clinician who also holds positions on several not for profit organisations, driven by her passion for bridging gaps across the health sector. She is a leading women’s health expert, keynote speaker, climate change and gender equity advocate and government advisor. Magda is member of The Australian Health Team contributing monthly articles.
Magdalena was awarded a lifetime membership of the RACGP for her contributions which include past chair of Women in General Practice, longstanding contribution to the RACGP Expert Committee Quality Care, the RACGP eHealth Expert Committee. She is regularly invited to comment on primary care research though mainstream and medical media and contributes articles on various health issues through newsGP and other publications.
Magdalena has represented the RACGP at senate enquiries and has worked on several National Health Framework reviews. She is author of the RACGP Guide on Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery and co-reviewer of the RACGP Red Book Women’s Health Chapter, and reviewer of the RACGP White book
Both an RACGP examiner and University examiner, she undertakes general practice research and is a GP Educator with the Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence, which develops education tools to assist the primary care sector identify, respond to and manage family violence . Roles outside of RACGP include the Strategy and Policy Committee for Breast Cancer Network Australia, Board Director of the Melbourne University Teaching Health Clinics and the elected GP representative to the AMA Federal Council. In 2022. she was award the AMA (Vic) Patrick Pritzwald-Steggman Award 2022, which celebrates a doctor who has made an exceptional contribution to the wellbeing of their colleagues and the community and was listed as Women’s Agenda 2022 finalist for Emerging Leader in Health.
Magdalena has presented at the United Nations as part of the Australian Assembly and was appointed the Australian representative to the World Health Organisation, World Assembly on COVID 19, by the Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) in 2021. In 2023, A/Professor Simonis was included on the King’s COVID-19 Champion’s list and was also awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division for significant service to medicine through a range of roles and to women’s health.
