Hopkins hosts day-long seminar on women's health
Johns Hopkins is hosting its 17th annual women’s health conference this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. at the Hilton Baltimore, 401 W. Pratt St.
The conference, A Woman’s Journey, usually attracts 1,000 women to hear Hopkins specialists discuss new medical treatments and provide information on diseases and health issues. There are 32 hour-long seminars in all.
Subjects include bone health, aging, heart disease and others.
On hand will be author and patient safety advocate Sorrel King, who plans to talk about a family’s tragic loss and it was used to improve safety. Dr. Peter Pronovost, Hopkins’ well-known patient safety expert and professor of critical care medicine, will introduce her.
Pronovost recently became director of the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. He has developed checklists used in Maryland and around the country to lower the number of central line infections.
The lunch speaker will be Christina Catlett, assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and associate director for Health System Preparedness at The Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response. She’ll talk about devastation in New Orleans and Haiti and other personal experiences.
For more information, go to www.hopkinsmedicine.org/awomansjourney or call 410-955-8660.
