NewsFlash Publications
Welcome to the new format of NewsFlash. This e-newsletter will be a monthly publication moving forward in 2010 (with the exception of the first issue) to bring timely information to AMWA's members and constituents. The new html format allows us to deliver news in a user friendly and concise format without the need to scroll. We hope you enjoy the new NewsFlash; feedback to Sarah Hagy, Associate Director: shagy@fernley.com. To subscribe, send your name and email address to info@amwa-doc.org.
Current Issue - January/February 2010
UPDATE: ADVANCING WOMEN'S HEALTH DIGITAL RESOURCE LIBRARY
The AMWA Women's Health Working Group has now posted over 30 articles and teaching materials at the Medpedia site: Advancing Women's Health: A Women's Health Digital Resource Library for Sex and Gender Based Educational Resources. The committee continues to meet monthly, and we are working hard to build the library, but we need your help to create the best collection of women's health education materials on the web.
We have several requests for AMWA members reading this issue of NewsFlash:
1. Please take 2 minutes today to add your name to the growing list of members on the site. Be sure you are joining the "Advancing Women's Health" Group. Go to: http://www.medpedia.com/groups/444
Enter your email address and create a password. Browse through the articles and resources and note the file topics, which you can make use of. Don't miss the list of interesting Women's Health conferences on the Medical Meeting blog (accessible by the URL right under the group name).. If you know of other conferences, send information to: jgodfrey31@gmail.com. If you are attending upcoming medical meetings, would you be willing to write up a summary of presentation highlights that we can share on the Medical Meeting Blog?
2. Ask friends/colleagues and students to join. You do not have to be an MD, DO, or PhD to join, only to author original articles. You don't even have to be an AMWA member, just share our interest in promoting sex and gender based women's health care.
3. Submit materials to the site by sending them to our coordinating editor, Jodi Godfrey. Jodi stands ready to take your materials and edit them, if needed. They don't have to be in a perfect form. Any materials are welcome if they reflect information that needs to be taught about sex and gender specific medicine.
A. Do you have a PowerPoint presentation you recently gave to students or colleagues? Or are you preparing one? Send Jodi a copy.
B. Have you published an op-ed or an article?
C. Do you have a method that you use to critique materials to assure that they contain gender specific data?
D. Do you have a particular case study that you would be willing to share? Jodi has a format which will help you put the study into an easy to read form.
E. Start a discussion blog about an issue that is perplexing you or that patients often raise.
Watch for the press release which will come out later this month. It is our goal to reach all those interested in women's health and sex and gender specific medicine and add them to our group.
Thanks for your help and interest. If you would like to join the Women's Health Working Group, contact Sarah Hagy, Associate Director, AMWA Headquaters: shagy@fernley.com or 215-564-3484 X 2276.
Jan Werbinski, MD, Chair, Women's Health Working Group
Featured AMWA Member
Dr. Doris Bartuska- Master of the American College of Endocrinology
Doris G. Bartuska, MD, FACP, FACE, was presented the Master of the American College of Endocrinology. Dr. Bartuska is currently Emeritus Professor of Medicine (endocrinology) at Drexel University School of Medicine, formerly the Medical College of Pennsylvania/Hahnemann University. She has been the Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and the Fellowship Training Program at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bartuska graduated from Bucknell University and obtained her MD degree from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMC), now the Drexel University College of Medicine, where she had a rotating internship and fellowship and residency in medicine. She then was an NIH trainee in endocrinology at Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Bartuska was an Assistant and Associate Dean in Medicine at WMC. In 1966, she embarked on a two-year Special NIH Fellowship Molecular Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
She is the Past President of the Medical Staff at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and served as President of the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) in 1988. As AMWA President, she focused on stimulating national interest in a woman's health agenda with particular emphasis on the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and smoking and smoke related disease. Dr. Bartuska continues to be a leader in organized medicine and currently serves as Delegate to the Pennsylvania Medical society and the Committee to Nominate delegates to the American Medical Association. She is known in academia as consultant in endocrine and rare metabolic disorders, as well as the genetic endocrinopathies. Her research focused on the genetic aspects of endocrine diseases, endocrinology of aging, osteoporosis, and thyroid diseases. She is the author of numerous publications in the field. Dr. Bartuska has received a variety of awards including, most recently, the Pennsylvania Medical Society's Distinguished Service Award.
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