Pennsylvania Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania , and the International Council on Women's Health Issues
Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's first, is proud to host the sixth annual History of Women's Health Conference on Thursday, April 28, 2011. This year's theme is "Nursing's Contribution to Women's Health."
Julie Fairman, Phd, RN, FAAN, Director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania will kickoff the conference at 7:30 am with her address: "The Right to Write: Nurse Practitioners and Prescriptive Privileges."
The History of Women's Health Conference is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pennsylvania Hospital Historic Collections and the Pennsylvania Hospital Professional Staff. It was created to celebrate the evolution of women's health from its inception to present. Each year a new theme is chosen and lecturers picked to address this theme from a research and clinical focus and across medical disciplines.
The conference is free and open to the public. To register, please RSVP to Stacey Peeples at 215-829-5434 or peepless@pahosp.com by April 25, 2011.