Conference on Health for Women, Young Adults and Teens
November 11, 2007
10:30am - 2pm
Location:TBD (Westchester)
Come and join your children, friends, neighbors, and community professionals for a luncheon and discussion at a multi-specialty conference on issues related to health for teenage girls, young women and their mothers. All ages are invited to attend.
Fee: TBA, discounts for young women and teens, and scholarships available
The day will include: lectures, audience Q&A, luncheon, workshops
Topics will include:
- Bone Health: do I have to look like that?
- What’s new in contraception?
- The latest on HPV vaccine and who needs it
- How to reflect on our own adolescence and parent better
- “Emo Ed”: taking care of our bodies as well as our emotional lives
- How genes impact our lives
- Nutrition for girls and women: what’s different
- Talking about Sexuality: letting your daughter in on life’s joy
- Spirituality and Health
- Navigating with your strength as a female
- Speakers will include:
Speakers will include:
- Candida Fink, MD, psychiatrist, New Rochelle
- Paula Gottlieb, PHD, psychologist, Mamaroneck
- Karen Resnick-Dolins, RD, Nutrition expert, Altheus, Rye
- Ann Engelland, MD, Adolescent Medicine, Mamaroneck
- Peter Green, social worker, Rye Middle School, private practice
- Edie Menscher, Rabbi and clinical social worker, Larchmont
- Susan Coupey, MD, chair, Adolescent medicine, Montefiore
- Robert Marion, MD, geneticist, Albert Einstein and Montefiore