Industry leaders join forces for women's health webinar
Dr Mark Slack, chief medical officer and co-founder of CMR Surgical and a consultant gynaecologist, is one of four industry experts participating in a roundtable discussion aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of women’s health conditions.
The free webinar, entitled ‘Overcoming bias in designing Women’s Health solutions’, will take place on Wednesday 8 November at 3pm (UK time). Click here to sign up.
The three other panellists are:
- Dr Michelle Oyen, associate professor in biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, USA and the inaugural director of the university’s new Centre for Women’s Health Engineering.
- Hélène Guillaume Pabis is the founder and CEO of WILD.AI, an AI-driven tool to empower and assist female athletes.
- Valentina Lorenzi who is president of the Cambridge Femtech Society, a student-led organisation that aims to promote knowledge-sharing and to tackle challenges in femtech - the intersection of women’s health and technology.
The women’s health webinar is being hosted by 42 Technology and will be chaired by Craig Townsend, director of healthcare at 42 Technology. Topics covered will include:
- Cleaning up the biases in clinical data used to train AI models.
- Enhancing surgical outcomes by re-engineering tools for female surgeons.
- Maximising the impact of available funding in women’s health research.
- Opportunities to innovate in the diagnosis, treatment and management of female-specific conditions.
Although women make up nearly 50% of the world’s population, their health issues are often still considered niche and routinely overlooked by healthcare systems. For example, bias in research data ignores the significant differences in symptoms, outcomes, and treatment approaches that can exist between women and men when suffering from the same medical condition.