January 2019
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Jan - 18
Basic First Aid Workshop (Arabic)
Join Sidra Medicine’s free workshops to learn more about how to keep your child safe.
Who Should Attend?
Parents and caregivers
What Topics Will Be Covered?
Basic First Aid Workshop topics:
…- Broken bones and cuts
- Swallowing foreign bodies & batteries
- Drowning
- Poisoning
- Burns
- CPR live demonstration
Classes are offered both in Arabic and English.
Where?
Patient and Family Education Center, Plaza Level, Outpatient Clinic, Sidra Medicine
Contact Info: healthpromotion@sidra.org/ 4003 6277 (7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
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Jan - 18
Basic First Aid Workshop (English)
Join Sidra Medicine’s free workshops to learn more about how to keep your child safe.
Who Should Attend?
Parents and caregivers
What Topics Will Be Covered?
Basic First Aid Workshop topics:
…- Broken bones and cuts
- Swallowing foreign bodies & batteries
- Drowning
- Poisoning
- Burns
- CPR live demonstration
Classes are offered both in Arabic and English.
Where?
Patient and Family Education Center, Plaza Level, Outpatient Clinic, Sidra Medicine
Contact Info: healthpromotion@sidra.org/ 4003 6277 (7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
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Jan - 19
Antenatal Class (Arabic)
Are you pregnant?
Are you looking for more information about your pregnancy and childbirth?
Join us at Sidra Medicine for interactive antenatal classes taught by experienced healthcare professionals.
The following topics will be covered:
…- Healthy lifestyle during pregnancy
- Changes during pregnancy
- Stages of labor
- Types of delivery
- Pain control options during labor
- Breastfeeding
Classes are offered both in Arabic and English.
Location: Patient and Family Education Center, Plaza Level, Outpatient Clinic, Sidra Medicine
Contact Info: healthpromotion@sidra.org 4003 6277 (7:30 am- 3:30 pm)
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Jan - 20
Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management
A Collaborative Effort Between Adult Anesthesiology Simulation Department
Location:Sidra Medicine, Mall Level, OPC, Simulation Center
Learning Objectives:
1. Develop strategies to help appropriately diagnose and treat anesthesia emergencies.
2. Recall the importance of teamwork, communication skills, leadership and situational
awareness in dealing with clinical emergencies
3. Use a framework of non-technical skills analysis for self-reflection and analysis of
performance in the clinical emergency team setting.
Presenters:
Monzer Sadek
Sam Soltanifar
Target Audience:
Adult Anesthesiologist
Anesthesia Technologist
In support of improving patient care, Sidra Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
CME/CPD:
“This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Category 1) and an Assessment Activity (Category 3) as defined by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners - Accreditation Department and is approved for a maximum of 2 hours for Category 1 and maximum of 5 hours for Category3.
Contact Info: sim@sidra.org
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Jan - 21
American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS)
Location: Sidra Medicine Hospital Building, Tower A, 4th Floor
The American Heart Association’s (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) activity provides the foundational knowledge and applied skills for saving lives after a cardiac arrest. This activity teaches basic life support skills for application in both in-facility and prehospital settings.
Target Audience: Healthcare providers who need BLS for their clinical duties, including physicians, nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and others, as required by their employers
Major Topics:
- Chain of Survival
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Automated Electrical Defibrillators (AED)
- Ventilation
- Foreign Body Obstruction
- Teamwork in Resuscitation
There is a focus on the techniques of providing high-quality CPR, and developing high-performing team dynamics. Content is representative of the latest resuscitation science for improved patient outcomes. Students will learn basic life support techniques through realistic scenarios, simulations, and animations depicting rescuers, teams, and patients.
Activity Duration: One Day (4.5 hours)
Course Materials: Course Manuals must be collected prior to the course and are available between 08:00-15:00 Sunday to Thursday at Sidra Medicine, Tower A, 4th Floor, Nursing station.
CME/CPD: This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Category 1) as defined by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners - Accreditation Department and is approved for a maximum of 4.5 hour(s)
Contact Info: Suprima Chaddha, schaddha@sidra.org
…Jan - 21American Heart Association (AHA) Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
Location: Sidra Medicine, Hospital Building, Tower A, 4th Floor
The Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course builds on the foundation of Basic Life Support (BLS) skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR.
Target Audience: Healthcare providers who need ACLS for their clinical duties, including physicians, nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and others, as required by their employers
Major Topics:
…- Basic Life Support Skills
- Respiratory and Cardiac Arrest
- Peri-arrest Conditions
- Airway Management
- Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) and Stroke
- Team Dynamics
The goal of Advanced Cardiac Life Support is to improve outcomes for adult patients of cardiac arrest and other cardiopulmonary emergencies through early recognition and interventions by high performance teams.
This advanced activity highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication. It focuses on systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes.
Activity Duration: Two Day
Course Materials: Course Manuals must be collected prior to the course and are available between 08:00-15:00 Sunday to Thursday at Sidra Medicine, Tower A, 4th Floor, Nursing station.
The American Heart Association’s (AHA) Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) course has been updated to reflect the 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (2015 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC).
CME/CPD: This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Category 1) as defined by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners - Accreditation Department and is approved for a maximum of 12.30 hour(s).
Contact Info: Suprima Chaddha, schaddha@sidra.org
Feb - 15Engineered Immune Cells in Cancer Immunotherapy: from Discovery to “Off-the-Shelf” Development
Translating the potency of the anti-cancer immune system into overall survival
Sidra Medicine is proud to host Qatar’s first International Workshop on Engineered Immune Cells in Cancer Immunotherapy (EICCI). The workshop will take place on the 15th and 16th of February 2019 at Sidra Medicine in Doha, Qatar.
This workshop will represent an unparalleled opportunity for learning, fostering innovative scientific and clinical programs and for networking for the development of novel effective therapeutic interventions for cancer patients. EICCI will represent the unique opportunity to stay at the forefront of this rapidly evolving field and to become part of the academic and industry community dedicated to the development of anti-cancer engineered immune cells.
EICCI will bring together worldwide experts in immunology, oncology, hematology, gene and cell therapy while unveiling breakthrough technologies to implement the efficacy and manufacturing of cell therapies. It will also contribute to achieve the unmet need of providing innovative and highly efficacious treatments to patients affected with advanced neoplastic diseases in Qatar and in the MENA region.
This Workshop has been organized based on the joint interest and commitment of Sidra Medicine and National Center for Cancer Care and Research (NCCCR), Hamad Medical Corporation to be able to provide engineered T cell therapies for both pediatric and adult cancer patients in Qatar.
This event has been built with the partnership of the non-profit humanitarian charity Qatar Cancer Society.
Join us for this exciting event.
Registration & Abstract submission
Abstract submission deadline: 27th January 2019The preworkshop Symposium is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Category 1) as defined by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners – Accreditation Department and is approved for a maximum of 3.25
Feb - 27Evidence-based Practice for Healthcare Professionals
The scientific planning committee has reviewed all disclosed financial relationships of speakers, moderators, facilitators and/or authors in advance of this CPD activity and has implemented procedures to manage any potential or real conflicts of interest. This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Category 1) as defined by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners - Accreditation Department and is approved for a maximum of 13.75 hour(s).
Date: February 27-28, 2019
Venue: W Hotel, Doha
Target Audience: all practitioners in primary, secondary, and tertiary care doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied health practitioners.
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES: To enable participants to find, appraise and apply evidence that is required for a critical approach to clinical practice.
By the end of the program participants will be able to:
- Produce focused and answerable questions related to clinical practice
- Choose appropriate research designs to answer questions
- Construct and perform basic search strategies that allow efficient retrieval of relevant evidence
- Understand the basic principles and critical appraisal of controlled trials including the interpretation of results
- Understand the basic principles and critical appraisal of systematic reviews & meta-analysis including the interpretation of results
- Apply evidence to inform decision making
Day 1: February 27, 2019
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the module participants will be able to learn basic principles of evidence-based practice including: the 5-step evidence-based practice model, basic study designs, formulation of clinical questions, finding the evidence, and how to conduct efficient literature searches.
Day 2: February 28, 2019
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the module participants will be able to understand key areas such as randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and critical appraisal of these study designs.
Course Director: Prof. Anthony Akobeng
Organizing Committee
- Anthony Akobeng, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Sidra Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical College, Doha (Course Director)
- Manoj Mohan, Attending Physician in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Sidra Medicine, Doha
- Mamoun Elawad, Division Chief, Gastroenterology/Hepatology/Nutrition Division, Sidra Medicine, Doha
- Ibtihal Abdelgadir, Junior Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Sidra Medicine, Doha
- Amel Hassan, Senior Attending Physician, Allergy/Immunology Unit, Sidra Medicine, Doha
Contact Information: Geraldine Calica
Mar - 1World Maternal Mental Health Day Grand Rounds
World Maternal Mental Health Day Grand Round
Date: 1 May 2019
Time: 11.00 am to 1.00 pm
Location: Auditorium, Level 2, Main Hospital Building, Sidra Medicine
It has been found that 1 in 5 women globally experience a perinatal mental health disorder within the first year after the birth of a baby. Particularly if they have experienced pregnancy complications, other stressors in their lives or have a history of previous mental health disorder. Sidra Medicine is hosting a Grand Round in support of World Maternal Mental Health on 1 May 2019.
The Grand Round is open to health care providers interested in the mental health and wellbeing of pregnant and postpartum women, their infants and families.
The Grand Round is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Category 1) as defined by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners – Accreditation Department. It is approved for a maximum of 1 CPD point.
Following the 1 hour Grand Round, there will be another hour of panel discussion and networking.
Attendees will be registered on the day and are advised to arrive 30 minutes prior to the opening session at 11.00 am.
…Mar - 2Qatar’s 1st Perinatal Mental Health Symposium
We are pleased to invite you to Qatar’s first perinatal Mental Health Symposium on 2 March 2019. The symposium will serve as a platform to contribute to the development of a perinatal model of care sensitive to the social, cultural and geographical needs of Qatar.
It is open to health care providers interested in the mental health and wellbeing of pregnant and postpartum women, their infants and families, and to community members who may have experienced, or supported those experiencing challenges to their emotional wellbeing during this period.
The symposium will be an opportunity to learn from international and local experts in perinatal mental health.
The symposiums afternoon workshops will focus on key areas of perinatal mental health (including pregnancy, birthing and delivery, postpartum period, infants, fathers, mothers with serious mental illness, prevention and health promotion) and provide an opportunity for participants to explore available services in Qatar, as well as gaps in service provision. Find out more about the afternoon breakout sessions here.
Found out more about the Sidra Medicine Perinatal Health Services and Your Mind Matters, a resource to support good mental health and wellbeing for the people of Qatar.
Contact Info: Sonia Mascarenhas, smascarenhas@sidra.org
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Jan - 18
Basic First Aid Workshop (Arabic)
Join Sidra Medicine’s free workshops to learn more about how to keep your child safe.
Who Should Attend?
Parents and caregivers
What Topics Will Be Covered?
Basic First Aid Workshop topics:
…- Broken bones and cuts
- Swallowing foreign bodies & batteries
- Drowning
- Poisoning
- Burns
- CPR live demonstration
Classes are offered both in Arabic and English.
Where?
Patient and Family Education Center, Plaza Level, Outpatient Clinic, Sidra Medicine
Contact Info: healthpromotion@sidra.org/ 4003 6277 (7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
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Jan - 18
Basic First Aid Workshop (English)
Join Sidra Medicine’s free workshops to learn more about how to keep your child safe.
Who Should Attend?
Parents and caregivers
What Topics Will Be Covered?
Basic First Aid Workshop topics:
…- Broken bones and cuts
- Swallowing foreign bodies & batteries
- Drowning
- Poisoning
- Burns
- CPR live demonstration
Classes are offered both in Arabic and English.
Where?
Patient and Family Education Center, Plaza Level, Outpatient Clinic, Sidra Medicine
Contact Info: healthpromotion@sidra.org/ 4003 6277 (7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
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Jan - 19
Antenatal Class (Arabic)
Are you pregnant?
Are you looking for more information about your pregnancy and childbirth?
Join us at Sidra Medicine for interactive antenatal classes taught by experienced healthcare professionals.
The following topics will be covered:
…- Healthy lifestyle during pregnancy
- Changes during pregnancy
- Stages of labor
- Types of delivery
- Pain control options during labor
- Breastfeeding
Classes are offered both in Arabic and English.
Location: Patient and Family Education Center, Plaza Level, Outpatient Clinic, Sidra Medicine
Contact Info: healthpromotion@sidra.org 4003 6277 (7:30 am- 3:30 pm)
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Jan - 20
Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management
A Collaborative Effort Between Adult Anesthesiology Simulation Department
Location:Sidra Medicine, Mall Level, OPC, Simulation Center
Learning Objectives:
1. Develop strategies to help appropriately diagnose and treat anesthesia emergencies.
2. Recall the importance of teamwork, communication skills, leadership and situational
awareness in dealing with clinical emergencies
3. Use a framework of non-technical skills analysis for self-reflection and analysis of
performance in the clinical emergency team setting.
Presenters:
Monzer Sadek
Sam Soltanifar
Target Audience:
Adult Anesthesiologist
Anesthesia Technologist
In support of improving patient care, Sidra Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
CME/CPD:
“This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Category 1) and an Assessment Activity (Category 3) as defined by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners - Accreditation Department and is approved for a maximum of 2 hours for Category 1 and maximum of 5 hours for Category3.
Contact Info: sim@sidra.org
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Jan - 21
American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS)
Location: Sidra Medicine Hospital Building, Tower A, 4th Floor
The American Heart Association’s (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) activity provides the foundational knowledge and applied skills for saving lives after a cardiac arrest. This activity teaches basic life support skills for application in both in-facility and prehospital settings.
Target Audience: Healthcare providers who need BLS for their clinical duties, including physicians, nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and others, as required by their employers
Major Topics:
- Chain of Survival
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Automated Electrical Defibrillators (AED)
- Ventilation
- Foreign Body Obstruction
- Teamwork in Resuscitation
There is a focus on the techniques of providing high-quality CPR, and developing high-performing team dynamics. Content is representative of the latest resuscitation science for improved patient outcomes. Students will learn basic life support techniques through realistic scenarios, simulations, and animations depicting rescuers, teams, and patients.
Activity Duration: One Day (4.5 hours)
Course Materials: Course Manuals must be collected prior to the course and are available between 08:00-15:00 Sunday to Thursday at Sidra Medicine, Tower A, 4th Floor, Nursing station.
CME/CPD: This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Category 1) as defined by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners - Accreditation Department and is approved for a maximum of 4.5 hour(s)
Contact Info: Suprima Chaddha, schaddha@sidra.org
…Jan - 21American Heart Association (AHA) Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
Location: Sidra Medicine, Hospital Building, Tower A, 4th Floor
The Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course builds on the foundation of Basic Life Support (BLS) skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR.
Target Audience: Healthcare providers who need ACLS for their clinical duties, including physicians, nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and others, as required by their employers
Major Topics:
…- Basic Life Support Skills
- Respiratory and Cardiac Arrest
- Peri-arrest Conditions
- Airway Management
- Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) and Stroke
- Team Dynamics
The goal of Advanced Cardiac Life Support is to improve outcomes for adult patients of cardiac arrest and other cardiopulmonary emergencies through early recognition and interventions by high performance teams.
This advanced activity highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication. It focuses on systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes.
Activity Duration: Two Day
Course Materials: Course Manuals must be collected prior to the course and are available between 08:00-15:00 Sunday to Thursday at Sidra Medicine, Tower A, 4th Floor, Nursing station.
The American Heart Association’s (AHA) Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) course has been updated to reflect the 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (2015 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC).
CME/CPD: This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Category 1) as defined by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners - Accreditation Department and is approved for a maximum of 12.30 hour(s).
Contact Info: Suprima Chaddha, schaddha@sidra.org
Feb - 15Engineered Immune Cells in Cancer Immunotherapy: from Discovery to “Off-the-Shelf” Development
Translating the potency of the anti-cancer immune system into overall survival
Sidra Medicine is proud to host Qatar’s first International Workshop on Engineered Immune Cells in Cancer Immunotherapy (EICCI). The workshop will take place on the 15th and 16th of February 2019 at Sidra Medicine in Doha, Qatar.
This workshop will represent an unparalleled opportunity for learning, fostering innovative scientific and clinical programs and for networking for the development of novel effective therapeutic interventions for cancer patients. EICCI will represent the unique opportunity to stay at the forefront of this rapidly evolving field and to become part of the academic and industry community dedicated to the development of anti-cancer engineered immune cells.
EICCI will bring together worldwide experts in immunology, oncology, hematology, gene and cell therapy while unveiling breakthrough technologies to implement the efficacy and manufacturing of cell therapies. It will also contribute to achieve the unmet need of providing innovative and highly efficacious treatments to patients affected with advanced neoplastic diseases in Qatar and in the MENA region.
This Workshop has been organized based on the joint interest and commitment of Sidra Medicine and National Center for Cancer Care and Research (NCCCR), Hamad Medical Corporation to be able to provide engineered T cell therapies for both pediatric and adult cancer patients in Qatar.
This event has been built with the partnership of the non-profit humanitarian charity Qatar Cancer Society.
Join us for this exciting event.
Registration & Abstract submission
Abstract submission deadline: 27th January 2019The preworkshop Symposium is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Category 1) as defined by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners – Accreditation Department and is approved for a maximum of 3.25
Evidence-based Practice for Healthcare Professionals
The scientific planning committee has reviewed all disclosed financial relationships of speakers, moderators, facilitators and/or authors in advance of this CPD activity and has implemented procedures to manage any potential or real conflicts of interest. This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Category 1) as defined by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners - Accreditation Department and is approved for a maximum of 13.75 hour(s).
Date: February 27-28, 2019
Venue: W Hotel, Doha
Target Audience: all practitioners in primary, secondary, and tertiary care doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied health practitioners.
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES: To enable participants to find, appraise and apply evidence that is required for a critical approach to clinical practice.
By the end of the program participants will be able to:
- Produce focused and answerable questions related to clinical practice
- Choose appropriate research designs to answer questions
- Construct and perform basic search strategies that allow efficient retrieval of relevant evidence
- Understand the basic principles and critical appraisal of controlled trials including the interpretation of results
- Understand the basic principles and critical appraisal of systematic reviews & meta-analysis including the interpretation of results
- Apply evidence to inform decision making
Day 1: February 27, 2019
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the module participants will be able to learn basic principles of evidence-based practice including: the 5-step evidence-based practice model, basic study designs, formulation of clinical questions, finding the evidence, and how to conduct efficient literature searches.
Day 2: February 28, 2019
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the module participants will be able to understand key areas such as randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and critical appraisal of these study designs.
Course Director: Prof. Anthony Akobeng
Organizing Committee
- Anthony Akobeng, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Sidra Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical College, Doha (Course Director)
- Manoj Mohan, Attending Physician in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Sidra Medicine, Doha
- Mamoun Elawad, Division Chief, Gastroenterology/Hepatology/Nutrition Division, Sidra Medicine, Doha
- Ibtihal Abdelgadir, Junior Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Sidra Medicine, Doha
- Amel Hassan, Senior Attending Physician, Allergy/Immunology Unit, Sidra Medicine, Doha
Contact Information: Geraldine Calica
Mar - 1World Maternal Mental Health Day Grand Rounds
World Maternal Mental Health Day Grand Round
Date: 1 May 2019
Time: 11.00 am to 1.00 pm
Location: Auditorium, Level 2, Main Hospital Building, Sidra Medicine
It has been found that 1 in 5 women globally experience a perinatal mental health disorder within the first year after the birth of a baby. Particularly if they have experienced pregnancy complications, other stressors in their lives or have a history of previous mental health disorder. Sidra Medicine is hosting a Grand Round in support of World Maternal Mental Health on 1 May 2019.
The Grand Round is open to health care providers interested in the mental health and wellbeing of pregnant and postpartum women, their infants and families.
The Grand Round is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Category 1) as defined by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners – Accreditation Department. It is approved for a maximum of 1 CPD point.
Following the 1 hour Grand Round, there will be another hour of panel discussion and networking.
Attendees will be registered on the day and are advised to arrive 30 minutes prior to the opening session at 11.00 am.
…Mar - 2Qatar’s 1st Perinatal Mental Health Symposium
We are pleased to invite you to Qatar’s first perinatal Mental Health Symposium on 2 March 2019. The symposium will serve as a platform to contribute to the development of a perinatal model of care sensitive to the social, cultural and geographical needs of Qatar.
It is open to health care providers interested in the mental health and wellbeing of pregnant and postpartum women, their infants and families, and to community members who may have experienced, or supported those experiencing challenges to their emotional wellbeing during this period.
The symposium will be an opportunity to learn from international and local experts in perinatal mental health.
The symposiums afternoon workshops will focus on key areas of perinatal mental health (including pregnancy, birthing and delivery, postpartum period, infants, fathers, mothers with serious mental illness, prevention and health promotion) and provide an opportunity for participants to explore available services in Qatar, as well as gaps in service provision. Find out more about the afternoon breakout sessions here.
Found out more about the Sidra Medicine Perinatal Health Services and Your Mind Matters, a resource to support good mental health and wellbeing for the people of Qatar.
Contact Info: Sonia Mascarenhas, smascarenhas@sidra.org
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