Sexual & Reproductive Health Conference- Dr. Juliet Skinner Barbados Fertility Centre

Dr. Juliet Skinner of the Barbados Fertility Centre will be speaking at the conference schedule June 24-25, 2017.

Profile Dr. Juliet Skinner

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Dr.Juliet Skinner of Barbados Fertility CentreBarbados can boast of modern healthcare infrastructure and top-notch medical services that are internationally acclaimed. One ambassador dedicated to the high quality healthcare and the promotion of Barbados as a key destination of medical tourism is Dr. Juliet Skinner.

Dr. Skinner is the Medical Director of the renowned Barbados Fertility Centre. Her qualifications include medical degrees from the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (BA MB BCh BAO). She is also a member of both the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (London) (MRCOG) and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (MRCPI). Both her postgraduate studies and her membership to international councils have given Dr. Skinner an international vision that results in the world-class service offered by Barbados Fertility Centre.

Barbados Fertility Centre is a highly-rated medical facility driven by its dual visions to provide quality healthcare and to make Barbados one of the major medical destinations in the world. Indeed, an estimated 85% of their patients do not reside on the island. To meet international standards, Barbados Fertility Centre offers a full range of diagnostic tests and treatment options, including in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) as well as other assisted reproductive techniques. In addition to this full range of services, the fertility centre has been accredited by the Joint Commission International, a major international healthcare accreditation body.

See her video on YouTube One of the Best IVF Clinic in the World

Feature Speaker -Dr. Sophia Edwards-Bennett Communication in Cancer Speaker-June 22, 2017

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Dr. Sophia Edwards-Bennett Oncologist -21st Century Oncology

About the Speaker

 

Dr. Sophia Edwards-Bennett (known by her patients as Dr. EB) is board certified in Radiation Oncology. She is passionate about patient care and believes that every patient is special and unique. Her philosophy is that when patients, their spouses and family members entrust their lives into her hands, she should summon all her zeal, knowledge and expertise to unreservedly render the best care to all her patients. She has authored multiple articles; is co-chair of the SCCA Breast Committee, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of SCMA, the South Carolina Cancer Control Advisory Committee (CCAC) and the American College of Radiation Oncology (ACRO) Membership Committee.

 

She is a member of American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Disparities Committee, Radiological Society of North America, American Association for Women Radiologists, Association of Minority Radiation Oncology Residents and Fellows and American Medical Association.

She will be at the conference representing her institution, 21st Century Oncology on June 22.

 

Dr. Alison Bernard Guest Speaker at Sexual & Reproductive Conference June 24-25, 2017

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DR. ALISON BERNARD CHANGING ATTITUDES ABOUT BREASTFEEDING IN BARBADOS

Her Topic: Breastfeeding

Dr. Alison Bernard is of President of the charity, Breastfeeding And Child Nutrition Foundation Of Barbados (BCNF). She founded the charity along with two other colleagues in early 2015 and they became a registered charity in May 2015.

The charity has 11 members made up of doctors, lawyers, nutritionists, nurses, accountants. All women but they would love to recruit some men as breastfeeding affects us all. Their mandate is the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding as well as to provide practical evidenced based information on nutrition to parents, with an aim to decreasing the NCDs epidemic in Barbados which has begun to grip our children.

They provide support through one on one breastfeeding counseling sessions, as well as provide educational information at their sessions at QEH twice a month. The group is helping to create policy which they hope will make real change for mothers making it easier for them to initiate and maintain breastfeeding. By creating breastfeeding campaigns and engaging with mass media they hope to bring awareness of the lesser known benefits of breastfeeding including its positive effect on intelligence and decreasing the incidence of NCDs.

 

Take a look at her story on nation news website

http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/81216/dr-alison-love-medicine

Look for the charity BCNF on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/BCNF3/

 

Interesting video on the correct way to feed your baby. Breastfeeding 101

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xAorGJgXYGY

 

 

Sexual & Reproductive Health Conference Speaker- Helen Knox

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Committed to Educating others About Sexual Health

Founder of SEXplained -Helen Knox

Described by the Nursing Times in 2004 as a courageous innovator, Helen qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1978 at Westminster Hospital, London, before working as a Senior Staff Nurse at St Thomas’ Hospital A&E Dept, London, where she was ‘on duty’ on the night of The Brixton Riots.

She later qualified as a District Nursing Sister and worked in different parts of Kensington and Chelsea, West London. However, she developed a keen interest in well woman’s health. For over 20 years, she has worked in the field of contraception and sexual health, in different parts of London, and has always enjoyed teaching other people about her speciality.

From 1991-2001 she was the UK’s first Outreach Clinical Nurse Specialist in Contraception and Sexual Health and worked ‘on the streets’ in south London. In 1994 she was a finalist in the Nursing Times/3M National Nursing Awards for Innovation in Nursing and Midwifery for exceptional work in expanding the outreach work related to Family Planning and Sexual Health.

Helen has extensive experience in teaching contraception and sexual health to the public as well as her own profession. In 1999, she founded and now works for Sexplained Ltd but has worked in Family Planning Clinics and taught in men’s prisons, homeless hostels, drug agencies, probation centres, schools, colleges, civic centres and to sex workers – as well as Schools of Nursing and Universities.

She has frequently appeared on live phone-in shows on radio and also TV, here in the UK, and overseas. (click for media appearances)

Her teaching style is uniquely open and frank – with no holds barred. She keeps to the medical perspective when teaching, leaving the moral and other wider issues to the Church and others. At no time has she ever promoted underage sex or sexual activity – indeed the opposite – from a legally and medically reasoned perspective. SEXplained… The Uncensored Guide to Sexual Health, Helen’s highly acclaimed first book, published in 1995, covers all the issues relating to sexually transmitted infection and is also written specifically for the public.

In this, her first book in the SEXplained…® series, she pioneers teaching safer sex from the hepatitis prevention viewpoint, rather than the HIV angle, since it is a bigger threat than AIDS.

Medical photographs are reproduced in colour to illustrate, with chilling effect, some increasingly common infections that reinforce her message – and to stimulate discussion.

Since 1995, Helen has appeared frequently on television, given regular radio interviews and taken part in radio phone-ins. She is also a regular contributor to publications reaching a wide cross-section of target audiences.

 

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