26th Annual HeLa Women's Health Symposium

Addressing Racial and Ethnic Gynecological Health Disparities

Thursday, November 9, 2023 | 2:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Morehouse School of Medicine
Louis W. Sullivan National Center for Primary Care

Time Agenda Items Speaker(s)
2:00 – 2:10pm Welcome

Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG
President & CEO
Morehouse School of Medicine

2:10 – 2:15pm Greetings

Joseph A Tyndall, MD, MPH
Dean and Executive VP of Health Affairs
Morehouse School of Medicine

2:15 – 2:25pm Honoring Dr Patillo

Roland Matthews, MD
Professor & Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Morehouse School of Medicine

2:25 – 2:30pm History of Henrietta Lacks  Winston Thompson, PhD, MS
Director of Research, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Morehouse School of Medicine
2:30 – 3:00pm The Health Disparities of Uterine Fibroids for African American Women: A Public Health Issue Alicia Christy, MD
Retired Deputy Director, Reproductive Health Veterans Administration

Introduction by Tanika Gray Valbrun

Founder of The White Dress Project
3:00 – 3:30pm Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Katherine Sherif, MD
Professor & Vice Chair, Academic Affairs, Department of Medicine
Jefferson Women's Primary Care

Introduction by Sasha Ottey
Founder and Executive Director of PCOS Challenge
3:30 – 4:00pm Endometriosis Michael F. Neblett II, MD
Assistant Professor
Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
Emory University

Introduction by Lauren Kornegay

Founder, EndoBlack
4:00 – 4:10pm Special Presentation Roland Matthews, MD
Professor and Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Morehouse School of Medicine
4:10 – 4:14pm Closing Remarks Winston Thompson, PhD, MS
Director of Research, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Morehouse School of Medicine
RECEPTION
5:00 – 5:10pm

Greetings

Congresswoman Nikema Williams
Georgia’s 5th Congressional District

5:10 – 6:10pm

“Below the Belt” Screening

Shannon Cohn
Director

6:10 – 7:00pm

Panel Discussion