When: Friday 10th May 2024
Location: Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
You are invited to join us at the MWF Spring Conference 2024 titled ‘Innovation and Leadership in Challenging Times.’ To book your place at the MWF Spring Conference 2024, please use our online booking form. Click here. CPD Pending.
Programme
Confirmed Speakers
We will be showcasing a fantastic and varied line-up of speakers. Speakers will be announced very soon, please see our confirmed speakers below:
Dr Catherine Calderwood - After Dinner Speaker on 9th May
National Clinical Director, Centre For Sustainable Delivery, Golden Jubilee National Hospital
Former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
Dr Rachel Morris
Host of You Are Not A Frog Podcast
GP and Coach
Miss Samantha Tross
Consultant Orthopaedic Hip and Knee Surgeon
Board Member (Secretary) IODA (Inthernational Orthopaedic Diversity Alliance)
Trustee British Association Black Surgeons
Professor Dame Lesley Regan
Women’s Health Ambassador for England
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College London.
Dr Rosalind Ranson
Independent Chief Medical Advisor
Dr Ellen Fallows
NHS GP with experience in treatment and reversal of long-term conditions through supported lifestyle change.
Dr Anita Sharma
GPwSI Gynaecology
Chair of Women's Doctors Forum BIDA
Education Lead FDA North West
Chair of Endometriosis Awareness North
GP member NICE GDG Menopause and Breast Cancer
Undergraduate Trainer University of Manchester
Prof Scarlett McNally
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Deputy Director, Centre for Perioperative Care www.cpoc.org.uk
Honorary Clinical Professor, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
President, Medical Women’s Federation
Dr Nuthana Prathivadi Bhayankaram
Vice President, Medical Women's Federation
Paediatric registrar
Chief Sustainability Officer's Clinical Fellow 2023/24
Dr Karen Ellison
Medicolegal consultant at the Medical Protection Society
Tista Chakravarty-Gannon
Head of Operations, Outreach England at the General Medical Council
You! - Oral and poster abstracts
Oral Abstract Presentations:
Establishing the UK as a leader in women’s health through innovative, whole-sector co-design of sex and gender policies for medical research - Dr Kate Womersley
MSID: Innovation leadership to reduce global medical education inequalities - Dr Safiya Virji
Refereeing REF to ensure fair play for women in clinical academia - Professor Angharad Davies
Advancing Maternal Healthcare in Resource-Poor Settings: The Innovative Approach of Maa Global - Dr Fahimah Ali
Pricing
| Membership Type - Early Bird Prices (closes on 7th April when prices will increase) | MWF Member Price | Non- MWF Price |
| Consultant or GP | £100 | £155 |
| Retired | £65 | £100 |
|
Postgraduate Doctor in training, SAS Grade or Locally Employed |
£75 | £100 |
| Student | £50 | £75 |
| Formal Dinner on 9th May | £85 | £85 |
| Formal Dinner on 9th May- reduced rate for students or postgraduate doctors in training (limited spaces) | £35 | £35 |
Call for Spring Conference Abstracts:
We are accepting abstract submissions for the MWF Spring Conference on the conference theme. This is a fantastic opportunity to share your research or project findings with colleagues from across the UK! Full submission details can be located on our website here. The deadline for all submissions is midnight on the 28th February 2024.
Formal Dinner - 9th May 2024 at Downing College
We are delighted to announce that our pre-conference formal dinner and reception will be taking place at Downing College in Cambridge from 6pm. To register, click here.
Council Meeting- 9th May 2024 at Downing
We are delighted to be holding our first in-person council meeting since before the pandemic. The council meeting will be taking place at 4.30pm - 6pm on the 9th May 2024 at Downing College. This meeting will take place before the pre-conference formal dinner which will be taking place from 6pm.
Observers are welcome to attend the council meeting.
Lady Estelle Wolfson Bursary
We are delighted to confirm that we will be offering the Lady Estelle Wolfson Conference Bursary once again. The bursary aims to encourage medical students and postgraduate doctors in training members of the MWF to attend the Spring Conference. The bursary has been generously supported by Lady Estelle Wolfson (Chair of the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation). Full information is available here.
SAS Doctors Bursary
In memory of our former Honorary Secretary, Dr Anthea Mowat, we are delighted to launch the SAS Doctors Bursary. Full information is available here.
MWF Raffle
MWF will be hosting a raffle prize draw which will take place at the conference. If you would like to donate a prize, please get in touch!
Gift Registration
If you would like to donate a conference place to a collegue, friend, family member or MWF member, please email
If you are a member of the MWF and would like to register your interest as a recipient of a donated place, please click here.
Buddying
We know that coming to a conference for the first time on your own can seem a bit daunting, MWF is glad to announce the launch of a buddying scheme that allows first time attendees to be buddied with MWF Members. If you are interested in being buddied, kindly register your interest here.
Partner and support
We would like to kindly thank the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Medical Protection Society (MPS) who are sponsoring our Spring Conference.
The Spring Conference and its activities offer a range of opportunities to join the conversation as a sponsor or charity partner. Please get in touch to discuss working together by contacting
Recommended Hotel
If you need to stay overnight on the 9th May, we recommend booking a room at The Clayton Hotel, Cambridge. Preferential rates are available for MWF Conference delegates, please email:
