Professor Jane Dacre is MWF’s new president-elect. She is a Consultant Rheumatologist and professor of medical education, a past president of the Royal College of Physicians, and a leading author on 2 important reports on Women in Medicine – ‘Women and Medicine: the Future’ (2009) and The Gender Pay Gap in Medicine (2020). Her priorities now are to reduce the gender pay gap in medicine, to support flexible working for doctors with caring responsibilities, and to reduce sexism, bullying and harassment in the workplace.
At our MWF Spring conference in May we were joined by our Royal patron, the Duchess of Gloucester. A formal pre-conference dinner was held in Downing College, Cambridge, with Professor Catherine Calderwood, a past Chief Medical Officer for Scotland as the after-dinner speaker. Highlights of the conference included a talk on Women’s Health by the Government’s recently appointed Women’s Health Ambassador, Professor Dame Lesley Regan, and a talk on ‘Culture, Belonging and Overcoming Failure’ by Miss Samantha Tross, an Orthopaedic Surgeon. 7 bursaries were awarded to medical students to attend the conference. Click here to read Rayna Ling’s Report
Our autumn conference will be held at Queens University Belfast on 5 October 2024, in partnership with WIMIN (Women in Medicine in Ireland Network) and will take a hybrid form. All are welcome! Find out more and book, click here.
Fig 1. MWF Executive members at the conference