Wellbeing of Women

WoW Show Speakers

Speakers already confirmed for the WoW Show in 2009 are:

Professor Lesley Regan
Professor Regan is Director of Gynaecology at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College and visiting Professor Harvard Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health and familiar to many from the recent Horizon series of programmes on health and beauty.

Peter Bowen-Simpkins
Peter Bowen-Simpkins is a consultant gynaecologist and currently the Medical Director of the London Women’s Clinic. Previous to this appointment he had been a Consultant at Singleton Hospital in Swansea until 2005. He served on the Council of the RCOG for thirteen years and was Honorary Treasurer from 1998-2005. He edits the Wellbeing Journal and he lectures, writes articles and answers press enquiries on behalf of the charity. He may be familiar from his recent appearances on the Channel 4 programme about sex and as an expert commentator on various news programmes.

Stuart Lavery
Stuart Lavery is a Consultant in Gynaecology, Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospitals, London. Stuart’s main research interests are in IVF, PGD and reproductive surgery and he will share his expertise on IVF in his WoW show seminar.

Dr Siobhan Quenby
Siobhan Quenby is a Consultant Obstetrician and also works in research and teaching at University of Liverpool. Siobhan is a WoW funded researcher her current project looks at obesity and pregnancy and she is also involved in a successful recurrent miscarriage clinic at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Her seminar at the WoW show will draw on her research and expertise in the problems that can arise during pregnancy.

Ruth Hawkes
Ruth Hawkes is a Chartered Physiotherapist specialising in women’s health, her seminars on exercising pelvic floor muscles were very popular last year – appealing to every woman – and she has agreed to repeat them at this year’s wow show.

Henry Annan
Henry Annan is a Consultant Gynaecologist at Whipps Cross University Hospital, London. At this year’s WoW Show Henry will talk about the problems of heavy periods and what can be done to alleviate them.