EARLY REGISTRATION

Working Agenda

Thursday, March 24^th 

12:00 pm ET – Welcome.  Eliza Chin, MD, MPH, AMWA Executive Director. Bio

12:30 pm ET – Keynote: Healing with Intention
Rana Awdish, MD, is a critical care physician on faculty at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and author of In Shock, a critically-acclaimed, bestselling memoir of her near-death experience as a patient.
1:30 pm ET – Break
1:45 pm ET – Plenary Lecture: Add Humor to your Medical Bag
Carrie Horwitch, MD, MED, Professor of Medical Education and Administration at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Bio

2:30 pm ET – AMWA Initiative Spotlight — Mental Health: Humans Before Heroes  (Drs. Loice Swisher and Kim Templeton)
2:45 pm ET – Workshop: “Shifting from Surviving to Thriving: Creating Psychological safety and a Culture of Wellness”
Charlene Dewey, MD, MEd, Co-director of professional health at VAndervilt University
3:45 pm ET – Break
4:00 pm ET – Plenary Lecture: Reimagine Your Potential for Optimal Success and Satisfaction
Cheri Blauet, MD, Assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
5:00 pm ET – AMWA Initiative Spotlight — The Value of Membership
Vidhya Prakash, MD, Clinical professor
8:00 pm ET – Poster Awards

Friday, March 25^th 

12:00 pm ET – Welcome
Janice Werbinski, MD, AMWA President (2021-2022)
12:30 pm ET – Keynote: What We Need to Know about the Leading Killer of Women and What We Can Do About It
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD
1:30 pm ET – Break
1:45 pm ET – Fireside Chat:  Heart to Heart: Considering Sex, Gender, and Diversity to Save More Women’s Lives 
Dr. Werbinski, MD, will speak with Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz, and Dr. Jennifer Meires
2:30 pm ET AMWA Initiative Spotlight — Physician Fertility
Drs. Comeaux, Talib, and Duke
2:45 pm ET Break
3:00 pm ET Hot Topics (Concurrent Clinical Sessions)
4:00 pm ET Hot Topics (Concurrent Clinical Session)​
Break
8:00 pm ET  AMWA GALA.
Join us for a Fireside Chat with Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, Chief Health Officer at Google Health and Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Texas/Austin School of Medicine and a special guest from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Saturday, March 26^th 

12:00 pm ET – KEYNOTE: Kimberly Manning, MD, professor of medicine and associate vice chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Emory University School of Medicine
1:00 pm ET – Fireside Chat – Overcoming Blindspots (Michael Sinha, Melissa Begay, and Narjust Duma)
1:45 pm ET AMWA Gender Equity Initiative Spotlight (Dr. Timmerman and Dr. Bernstein)
2:00 pm ET – Break
2:15 pm ET – Workshop: “Empowered Leadership: Creating a Thriving Culture for Diverse Women in Medicine”
Nora Vasquez, Ursula Lang, and Vanessa Calderon
3:15 pm ET – Break
3:30 pm ET – Workshop: Did That Really Just Happen? De-escalating Conflict
Drs. Nicole Lee, Eileen Barrett, Allison Ashford, and Rachna Rawal
4:30 pm ET – Remarks from Incoming AMWA President
Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD,   Bio
8:00 pm ET    Presentation of AMWA Fellows and Awards

Sunday, March 27^th 

• GME Special Programming
• Medical Student Program with the featured program from AMWA IGNITE
• Premedical Student Program
• CV Review
• Professional Coaching: 30-minutes complimentary sessions available from March 27-30, 2022.

Faculty List Coming Soon!

Trainee/Student Programs

Submit Poster Abstract

Poster sessions will be held virtually with poster viewing available leading up to, during, and after the meeting  

If you are a poster presenter, instructions will be emailed on how to submit a video presentation. Student and resident posters will be judged. Physician posters will be nominated for Viewer’s Choice Awards. If you have questions, please contact program@amwa-doc.org.

General Information

Submission categories include: Clinical care – best practices, Clinical care – case study, Research – human subjects (clinical), Research – bench, and other.

Posters that align with AMWA’s priority topics are especially encouraged:

Sex and Gender-Specific Medicine
Gender Equity
Work-Life Issues (including physician fertility)
Physician Wellness & Burnout (including medical humanities)
Medical Education & Training
Public Health Initiatives:  Gun Violence Prevention, Opioid Addition / Pain Management, Human Trafficking, Obesity, Cervical Cancer Eradication, Women’s Health

Submission Guidelines:

• The abstract must be 2000 characters or less (including characters, excluding title and author names). No graphics are allowed in the online submission form.
• There is a one-time, non-refundable $50 poster application fee
• Poster abstract must be 300 words or less (author names do NOT count toward word limit)
• Approval must be obtained from ALL authors before the abstract is submitted. A confirmation email will be sent to each author following submission receipt
• The submitting author must be available to present at the conference.
• Please enter your abstract information as accurately as possible, as it will not be able to be changed after submitting this form.

Formatting:

• For Research Abstracts: Background/Purpose, Methods, Results, Conclusions
• For Quality Improvement or Innovation Abstracts: Background, Intervention/Innovation, Results, Conclusion
• For Clinical Cases: Case Description, Conclusions, Clinical Significance

FAQs: 

Submit Poster Abstract

Sponsors

Diamond $20,000+
Gold $10,0000+
Silver $5,000+
Bronze $1,000+

Sponsors will be recognized in digital and print programs and receive complimentary registration to the meeting.

Exhibitors

Virtual exhibit: $550 (for profit), $300 (non-profit)

Virtual exhibits will be launched 4 weeks prior to the meeting and will remain on the virtual meeting page after the meeting. Each exhibit will include:

• A short video or graphic
• Up to 3 links to program or product information
• OPTIONAL Scheduled opportunities to present to meeting attendees (exhibitors must use their own meeting platform (e.g. Zoom)

Questions? E-mail Exhibitor@amwa-doc.org.

Preview our current exhibitors and stay tuned for live exhibitor updates!