Throughout 2010 the Jean Hailes Foundation for Women’s Health is partnering with Global TeleHealth to provide a series of professional development and education events delivered in person in Melbourne and via videoconference around Australia.

We are offering this unique opportunity for General Practitioners and Allied Health Professionals across the country to learn the latest information no matter where they are physically located.

Next Videoconference

Will be announced here shortly.

Past Videoconferences

Endometriosis: research, diagnosis and management

23 January 2010
Available as a webcast now!

Presenters

Dr Elizabeth Farrell AM, MBBS, FRANZCOG, FRCOG
Founding Board Member, The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health; Chairman of MAHAC, The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health; Head, Menopause Unit, Monash Medical Centre;
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University; Past Chairman, Health Promotion and Illness Prevention Committee; Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
President of the Asia Pacific Menopause Federation for the triennium 2007-2010 and currently President Elect of the Australasian Menopause Society.

Professor Peter Rogers BSc (Hons), PhD
Founding Board Member, The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health; Member, Research Committee, The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health; Director, Centre for Women's Health Research and NH & MRC Principal Research Fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University.

Topics include:

• Recent research into the diagnosis and treatment of Endometriosis
• Diagnosis and management of Endometriosis
• Services and resources to support women with Endometriosis

Cardiovascular disease in women and the importance of risk perception

28 April 2009
Available as a webcast now!

Presenters

Professor Helena Teede, Endocrinologist
Director of Research - The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women’s Health
Head of Diabetes Unit - Southern Health

Dr Mandy Deeks, Psychologist
Deputy Director of Research - The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women’s Health

Topic includes:

• Identifying and addressing the risk factors for CVD in women
• The health professionals role in the prevention of CVD in women
• What does Health Related Behaviour mean?
• Identifying risk and managing behaviour change

Now available as on-demand webcasts.

• “Hormone Therapy and the Women’s Health Initiative: lessons we have learnt, moving forward with an evidence-based approach”
• A Bio-Psychosocial look at Menopause and Midlife
• 'Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and Gestational Diabetes - what can we do'
• CVD, Diabetes and Obesity in Women, under diagnosed under treated - what can the health professional do
• Making sense of it all: Sexual function and androgens in women 
• Premature menopause - who, when and how long to treat
• Osteoporosis Update
• Continence and Prolapse
• Sexual Health at Midlife - Taking a sexual history, STIs and contraception
• Cardiovascular disease in women and the importance of risk perception
• Endometriosis: research, diagnosis and management 

Content Updated January 23, 2010