1. Indigenous Health Issues Ballroom A

10:30 - 10:50 Invasive pneumococcal disease in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1994-1998: Reasons to vaccinate.

10:50 - 11:10 Polycystic ovary syndrome - Menstrual disorders and infertility in indigenous women.

11:10 - 11:20 The health status of the Chenchu tribe and their practices.

11:20 - 11:40 Sugar and spice and all things nice: The role of women in traditional health practices.

11:40 - 12:00 Modern Pressures, Traditional Problems: Reproductive Tract Infections in Rural Vietnam

2. Women And The Medical Hierarchy

10:30 - 10:55 Women in medicine: Mapping the field.

10:55 - 11:07 Career development of Japansese women physicians in medical societies.

11:07 - 11:19 Specialist supply in Australia: A review to strategies to enhance female participation.

11:19 - 11:31 Gender related income differences among physicians in Sweden.

11:31 - 11:50 Women in Surgery: Is there a glass ceiling?

11:50 - 12:02 An evidence-based medicine women’s health curriculum.

12:02 - 12:30 Discussion

3. Adolescence On The Health Agenda

10:30 - 10:50 Adolescence on the health agenda. Assoc. Professor Susan M. Sawyer

10:50 - 11:10 Quality primary health care for adolescents in general practice setting.

11:10 - 11:30 Adolescent primary care and models of service delivery.

11:30 - 11:50 The Health of a Ugandan woman during puberty in Kawempe Division, Kampala District, Uganda.

11:50 - 12:30 Discussion

4. Women In Surgery

Part A The Role of Women as Practitioners in the Profession of Surgery

10:40 - 10:55 The Role Of Women Physicians in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Part B Surgery as a Treatment for Women’s Health problems

11:02 - 11:09 Reconstruction of a Giant Nevus using Tissue Expansion: Longer than 10-Year follow-up evaluation.

11:09 - 11:16 Abdominal Pan-Hysterectomy Through Modified Mini-Pfannenstiel Incision

11:16 - 11:23 Chemical Burns to the Scalp due to Hair Bleach and its Reconstruction

11:23 - 11:30 Obstetric Genital Tract Fistula: Outcome and A New Method of Surgical Management for Urinary Incontinence

11:37 - 11:44 Breast Cancer: Reconstruction after Mastectomy to Restore the Individual Bodyline and to Improve Quality of Life

11:42 - 11:49 Repeated Recurrence And Multiple Reconstructions In An Elderly Breast Cancer Patient

5. Viral Infections

10:35 - 10:50 HIV in pregnancy.

10:50 - 11:05 Indian Experience of HIV-infected pregnant women.

11:05 - 11:20 The disadvantaged African woman and the HIV epidemic.

11:30 - 11:45 Cervical cancer: Role of HPV and time for intervention to reduce incidence.

11:45 - 12:00 Screening, diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer in China.

12:00 - 12:15 Early detection of potential cervical cancer changes.

6. Primary Care

Section a) The rural perspective in Australia

10:33 - 10:43 TBA

10:43 - 10:53 Wanted: Newrural workforce strategies for female doctors.

10:53 - 11:03 Strategies to support women in rural practice in Australia.

11:03 - 11:13 Medical practice in rural Australia: From the eyes of the next generation.

Section b) Primary care for women’s distress

11:30 - 11:40 Eating disorders in primary care.

11:40 - 11:50 Identification and management role of GPs for women experiencing partner abuse.

11:50 - 12:00 The slow breathing technique and other anxiety management techniques appropriate to the primary care setting.

7. Culture And Health

2:00 - 2:15 Issues in cross-cultural care.

2:15 - 2:30 How migrant women adjust to dual transitions,

2:30 - 2:45 Widowhood Rites: The Ogwuogo Nike Story.

2:45 - 3:00 Women’s health in Israel.

3:00 - 3:15 Negative socio-cultural practices that affect the sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and women in Nigeria.

3:15 - 3:30 The challenges of recruiting minority women for a national clinical trial aimed at breast cancer prevention.

8. Human Rights And Refugees

2:00 - 2:05 Human Rights with Regards to Women’s Health: A Philosophical Argument

2:10 - 2:10 Conditions of Life of Female Doctors in Former Yugoslavia 1988-2000

2:10 - 2:15 Access to Health Care Services for Women: Perceptions of Immigrant Workers in the Los Angeles Garment Industry

2:15 - 2:20 Prospects of Biological Weapons in the Twenty-First Century

2:20 - 2:25 Economic Sanctions and Public Health: The Case of Iraq

2:25 - 2:30 Iraqi women refugees in Australia

2:30 - 2:45 Mandatory Sentencing and Mental Health in Aboriginal Communities Ms Kate Napthali

2:45 - 2:50 Petrol sniffing in Central Australia.

2:50 - 2:55 West Papuan refugees in Papua New Guinea.

3:00 - 3:10 Report on Health Care of Women and Girls Abducted or Behind the Rebel Lines in Sierra Leone

9. Women In Medicine

Session 1: Women’s Identity in Medicine

2:00- 2:05 Welcome and Session Outline

2:05 - 2:15 Homophobia - the demon within

2:15 - 2:25 Lesbian doctors: A model for empowering professional minorities.

2:25 - 2:35 Pictures and quotes from medical curricula: Perpetuating stereotypical roles for women doctors at work"

Session 2 Completing the Picture: Medicine and Women

2:50 - 3:00 Gender in research and policy.

3:00 - 3:10 Historical reflections - women in clinical trials.

3:10 - 3:20 What happens when women "invade" medical schools?

3:50 - 4:00 Finalise recommendations

10. Breast Cancer Early Detection - What Works?

2:00 - 2:15 Results of an Australian breast health survey.

2:15 - 2:30 A study of the knowledge, attitude and practice of breast-self examination among childbearing women in Edo State, Nigeria.

2:30 - 2:45 The challenges of recruiting minority women for a national clinical trial aimed at breast cancer prevention.

2:45 - 3:00 Breast screening: Saving women’s lives.

3:00 - 3:15 Correlation between steroid receptors and serum estradiol progesterone, prolactin in primary breast cancer.

3.15 - 3:30 The effect of video and individual of breast self-examination on women’s action.

11. Sexual Health

2:05 - 2:20 Male Involvement in Female Reproductive Health.

2:20 - 2:35 Family Planning Acceptance in Calabar, Nigeria. Who Decides?

3:00 - 3:15 Induced Abortion: Nationwide survey in Thailand.

3:15 - 3:30 Unsafe Abortion: A Major Public Health Problem?

3:30 - 3:45 Post-Antibiotic Vulvovaginitis is it Really a Problem?

12. Family Physicians In Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems

13. Women And Children Living In Violence

10:30 - 10:40 Values, Traditions and Effects of Child Abuse

10:45 - 10:55 Female Genital Mutilation as a Problem in Western Countries: Preventative Measures Against Female Genital Mutilation Among Somalian Girls in Denmark

11:00 - 11:10 Dysmenorrhoea: A Long-Term Consequence of Female Genital Mutilation

11:10 - 11:20 Cultural Relativism vs Human Rights Violations

11:25 - 11:35 Violences Against Women in Cameroon

11:35 - 11:45 Health Care Provided for Female Asylum Seekers in Denmark\

11:50 - 12:00 Women who have suffered torture and trauma: The Experiences of doctors working at Companion House, Canberra ACT, Australia

14. Maternal Health

10:30 - 10:40 Session Overview

10:40 - 10:50 Determinants of Utilization of Antenatal Services, and Reasons for Not Asking for Antenatal Services, in India

10:50 - 11:00 Strengthening reproductive health and safe motherhood programmes in Iran.

11:00 - 11:10 Reproductive health initiative of the American Medical Women’s Association.

11:25 - 11:35 A comparative study on the outcome of pregnancy in adolescent and adult women.

11:35 - 11:45 Pregnancy and Cultural Norm: Korean Experience.

11:45 - 11:55 The practice of traditional birth attendant and women’s health in Nigeria.

15. Mental Health

11:05 - 11:20 Special Presentation Infant mental health in a changing world: Effects of older first-time mothers and family break-up.

11:30 - 11:40 Stress and coping of mothers and fathers of the children with disability.

11:40 - 11:50 Coping with a mentally ill woman to achieve a stable nation.

11:50 - 12:00 The psychological effects of cancer on inpatients at Kenyatta National Hospital.

16. Women’s Health And Ageing

10:30 - 10:40 Old Age - Is it a favour?

10:40 - 10:50 Women: Ageing and Stroke.

10:50 - 11:00 Cholesterol, Women and Ageing.

11:00 - 11:10 Thyroid function tests, serum lipids and gender interrelations in a middle-aged population.

11:10 - 11:20 Distribution and composition of glycosaminoglycans in the branches of the left human coronary arteries.

11:20 - 11:30 Mature Sexuality: Current Concepts

11:30 - 11:40 Sex in the Nineties.

11:40 - 11:50 Challenges for the twenty-first century.

17. Leadership

Leading Medical Women Workshop

18. Domestic Violence

2:00 - 2:10 Why Don’t Doctors Ask?

2:10 - 2:20 Factors Influencing Help-Seeking Behaviour for Abuse and Other Women’s Health in Hawaii.

2:25 - 2:40 Silent Acceptance of Violence at Home.

2:40 - 2:50 Domestic Violence Amongst Pregnant Women in Developing Countries.

2:50 - 3:00 Unintended Consequences in Dealing with Domestic Violence.

3:00 - 3:20 Domestic Abuse: An Issue for Health Care Professionals

19. Maternal Health

2:00 - 2:10 Session Overview

2:10 - 2:20 Maternal Morbities and Safe Motherhood Programmes in Iran

2:20 - 2:30 An Analysis of Determinants of Maternal Mortality: A Four Year Review of Maternal Deaths in Unbooked Patients, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Nigeria.

2:30 - 2:40 Factors Hindering Maternal Health in Egypt.

2:55 - 3:05 The Incidence of Prematurity in Shiraz Medical University Hospitals, Iran, 1999.

3:05 - 3:15 Retrospective Sstudies on Abortion Caused by Toxoplasmosis in Pregnant Women, Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

3:15 - 3:25 Episiotomy: Prevention of Extensive Genital Tract Rupture or its Risk Factors.

20. Free Papers

2:00 - 2:15 Interdisciplinary therapeutic method in an area hospital in Switzerland and complementing conventional treatment in basic health care.

2:15 - 2:30 Some barriers and benefits experienced by women who seek treatment for drug and alcohol dependency.

2:30 - 2:45 Analyzing web sites or the hidden risks of medical web sites.

2:45 - 3:00 Cultural Sensitivity - A Lesbian Health issue.

3:00 - 3:15 Challenging the tradition of ethnicity as "other" in the Australian health care system.

21. Public Health

2:05 - 2:15 Women’s Health Australia

2:20 - 2:35 Women and Hazards at Work

2:35 - 2:50 Body Mass Index and Resistant Polycystic Ovarian Disease

2:50 - 3.05 Prevalence of Iron Deficiency Anaemia in Egyptian Women during the Cchild-Bearing period in Greater Cairo, and the Effect of Contraceptives on Haemoglobin and Serum Ferritin

3:05 - 3:20 The Relation Between Sa-Sang Constitution and the Body Measurement Index.

3:20 - 3:35 Immunohistochemical Study of the Expression of ±-smooth Muscle Actin and the Proliferation Marker Ki-67 of Glomerulonephritis with Correlation to Clinical Findings.

3:35 - 3:50 Family Planning: A Possible Intervention in Maternal Mortality.

22. Mentorship

2:10 - 2:30 Electronic Mentoring: Overcoming Isolation.

2:30 - 2:45 A pilot study of a facilitated personal mentoring scheme for female basic surgical trainees.

2:55 - 3:02 Learning from leaders: A collegial support group.

3:02 - 3:09 Mentoring in New South Wales, Australia.