Making Peace with Your Enemies: Understand Your Anxiety to Conquer your Fears!
Lauren Edwards, MD ; Emaan Lehardy, PhD

• Describe a model of normal anxiety and its neuroscience and physiology
• Identify pathological anxiety and how it can develop
• Discuss evidence-based coping techniques and treatments for problematic anxiety

Food & Feelings: Maintaining Healthy Eating Patterns During COVID
Kimberly Vacek, PhD

• Discuss common eating patterns experienced by women during the pandemic including, statistical trends surrounding eating disorders
• Articulate tips for managing stress and emotional eating during COVID, and how to develop or maintain a healthy relationship with food despite the related challenges of facing a global pandemic
• Describe the importance of expanding outside the use of traditional coping skills (especially during isolation periods) and practicing self-compassion with health behaviors

Living in a Women's World: Understanding the Priority of Your Health
Emily Hill, APRN-NP ; Nicole Goliber, PA-C

• Articulate best practice guidelines for disease prevention and health promotion across the lifespan for women
• Identify screening guidelines for cervical, breast, colon, and skin cancers based on age
• Discuss adult immunizations
• Review diet and exercise guidelines for cardiovascular health

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) in Women: Today's Approach
Kathryn Hutchins, MD

• Define IBS including its subtypes
• Describe the current diagnostic approach and criteria for IBS
• Discuss common management approaches to IBS

Modern Menopause: Optimizing Mental and Physical Wellness
Jennifer Griffin, MD, MPH

• Discuss perimenopause and menopause, and the common physical and mental changes women experience during these periods
• Examine current data regarding mental health during the menopause transition
• Identify strategies to promote mental and physical wellness during this time of life

The Evolution of COVID-19 and Associated Racial Disparities: A National Emergency
Jasmine Riviere Marcelin, MD

• Describe the evolving state of COVID-19
• Describe racial/ethnic disparities emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic and including the historic/current situation leading to these disparities
• Identify actions needed to end the pandemic and address these disparities

Within Hindsight There is the Deep Wisdom of Insight
Havalynn Russell

• Identify ways to incorporate how to translate wellness and inspiration into those experiencing mental health challenges as derived from a case perspective.

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