Advocate Health Care offers Women's Health and Wellness Symposium
On Saturday, September 8, Advocate Health Care will host its Second Annual Women's Health and Wellness Symposium. This event will last from 7 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. at the Drury Lane Conference Center in Oakbrook Terrace, IL.
The event, co-directed by Carol Rizzie, Lisa Laurent, MD and Renee Horton (pictured left to right), focuses on giving female healthcare providers a chance to learn, share and network and encourage the women to focus on refreshing their own mind, body and souls.
This year's symposium will include speakers, project coordinators, advisors, consultants and attendees from across Advocate Healthcare. Presentations include Women's Cancer and Survivorship, Women's Heart Health, Mentoring Women Leaders and much more. Acclaimed writer and successful entrepreneur Susan B. Noyes, the founder of Make It Better Magazine, is the designated keynote speaker.
Advance registration is required. To register, visit advocatehealth.com/seminars or call 1.800.3. ADVOCATE (1.800.323.8622). Pricing for Advocate physicians is $50, $30 for Advocate associates and $50 for non-Advocate physicians and guests. The fee includes a catered breakfast, lunch and conference materials. There is a $5 off early bird registration special for all guests that register prior to Friday, August 17. The final registration deadline is August 31, 2012.
About Advocate Health Care
Advocate Health Care, one of the nation's top 10 health systems based on clinical performance, is the largest health system in Illinois and one of the largest health care providers in the Midwest. Advocate operates more than 250 sites of care, including 10 acute care hospitals, two integrated children's hospitals, five Level I trauma centers (the state's highest designation in trauma care) and two Level II trauma centers, one of the area's largest home health care companies and one of the region's largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more than 2,000 residents, medical students and fellows at its three major teaching hospitals. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $571 million in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland in 2011.