2024 Open Day: Community Engagement Event for Women
Date: November 30, 2024
Overview
Sidra Medicine’s Women’s Services is hosting a community engagement day for women.
The 2024 Open Day will focus on the theme of holistic wellness and pregnancy education. It will also allow attendees to engage and interact with experts from different women’s services at Sidra Medicine including maternity; weight management and diabetes; gynecology; reproductive health; menopause; and women’s mental health.
The Open Day will also feature a seminar on holistic wellness which will run side by side with a pregnancy education class. Attendees can also visit an exhibition-style interaction in the hospital’s Healing Garden.
Target Audience
- Women of all ages
- Pregnant women
- Women experiencing menopause
Holistic Seminar on Wellness
The seminar will address topical issues on how to promote physical and mental wellness including an opportunity to interact with a panel of subject matter experts.
Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Language: English
Topics:
Life course approach to women and reproductive health and well-being (20 mins)
- Underlying the philosophy of wellness
- The triple link of health, wealth, and longevity
A new dawn in women’s health - 40 is the new 60! (20 mins)
- Living healthier and longer-the state of science
- Rethinking menopause transition and post menopause health
Improving holistic health in the middle age: weight, diabetes, and lifestyle (20 mins)
- Importance of screening and preventive measures
- New treatments and interventions for weight management and diabetes monitoring
Managing stress and maintaining mental wellness (20 mins)
- Understanding the impact of stress on wellness
- Practical advice on stress prevention
Speakers
- Dr. Ibrahim Ibrahim, Senior Attending Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology
- Dr. Gbemisola Okunoye, Division Chief of Obstetrics
- Dr. Hala Abdullahi, Education Lead for Women’s Services
- Dr. Rudaina Hassan, Consultant Obstetrician-Gynecologist, Lead for Menopause Service
- Dr. Zainab Imam, Division Chief of Women’s Mental Health
- Dr. Sami Omer, Consultant Psychiatrist, Women’s Mental Health
Pregnancy Education Class
The pregnancy education class will provide an end-to-end pregnancy education session, from the antenatal period to postpartum which will be facilitated by our team of midwives, obstetricians and anesthetists.
Time: 10:00 – 12:00PM
Language: English and Arabic (simultaneously)
Session overview
- Preparing for pregnancy
- Staying healthy in first, second and third trimesters
- Back pain during pregnancy
- Breastfeeding education
- Preparing for Labor and delivery ,including pain relief
Mini Exhibition
The second half of the Open Day will highlight the different services available at Sidra Medicine. A buffet lunch will be served.
Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Meet our teams and get to know more about our service such as:
- Birthing center
- Postpartum unit
- Women’s urgent care and OB Triage
- Women’s special care unit
- Premium service
- OPC
- Aesthetic medicine and surgery
- Physiotherapy
- Lactation services
- Adult anesthesia
- Internal medicine/ diabetes/ weight management
- IVF/reproductive medicine
- Women’s mental health services