Friday, December 10, 1999
Women's health conference expands
BY SUE MacDONALD
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The organizers of Cincinnati's Speaking of Women's Health (SWH)conference want to meet the high demand for tickets without sacrificing the warm feeling of the event.
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IF YOU GO
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• What: Speaking of Women's Health 2000.
• When: March 15-19.
• Where: Northern Kentucky Convention Center, Covington.
• Cost: $25, includes day's events, luncheon, snacks and gift bag.
• Information: 345-6533.
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To that end, the 2000 conference will expand from three days to five to allow a record 4,000 women to take part — about 800 each day. Participants will hear three keynote speakers each day and choose three breakout sessions from among more than 50 covering various topics.
The 2000 conference will be March 15-19 at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center.
“This is believed to be the only five-day women's health conference in the country,” says SWH executive director Kathy DeLaura. “We don't know of any others. We also have people coming in from all over the country, not only as speakers but as participants.
“Eight hundred women still gives us a feeling that it has some intimacy, but I think five days is going to be the limit here in Cincinnati,” she says.
Now franchised to more than 20 U.S. cities, SWH has chosen osteoporosis education, called “Strong Women Have Strong Bones,” as its yearlong theme through a donation by Procter & Gamble.
The 2000 keynote speakers include estrogen author Ruth S. Jacobowitz, Dr. Steven and Sandra Amoils of Cincinnati's Alliance Institute for Integrative Health, Dr. Lana Holstein of Canyon Ranch Spa, Chicago Sun-Times personal finance columnist Terry Savage and sexuality expert Dr. Beverly Whipple.
Based on feedback from previous conference attendees, daily breakout sessions were expanded this year from two to three. Topics include breast health, skin care, yoga, menopause, children's self-esteem, sleep disorders, memory, depression, exercise and strength training, spirituality, and a patient's perspective on face lifts.
Returning breakout speakers include lifestyle consultant and author Ronda Gates, pain/stretching expert Richard H. Rossiter, yoga teacher Lilias Folan, financial planner Ann Diamond, Cincinnati menopause specialist Dr. Margery Gass and Cincinnati body-image therapist Dr. Ann Kearney Cooke.
Jennie Ward Robinson, of the Cincinnati branch of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will discuss cross-cultural stress relief, and Cincinnati therapist Dr. Linda Loy will deliver each day's lunchtime talk, “A Funny Thing Happened . . . ”
In addition, author Lillian Carson will offer a daily session on “essential grandparenting.”
“There are a variety of topics — from news about face lifts to instilling self-esteem in children,” Ms. DeLaura says. “The span of topics is getting broader because women from 20-90 are coming.”
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