February may have been the shortest month of the year, but all of us at NPWH made the most of it by preparing for a busy and productive year. We welcome a new board chair, Jacki Witt, who is from Kansas City, Missouri, and three new board members: Diana Drake, from Minneapolis, Minnesota; Shelagh Larson, from Fort Worth, Texas; and Jordan Vaughan, from Nashville, Tennessee. We are also pleased to announce that Beth Kelsey, Editor-in-Chief of this journal, has added a new role: NPWH Publication Coordinator. Congratulations to all!
In January, we launched “Women’s Health Wisdom,” NPWH’s own blog! The purpose of the blog is to share thoughts, updates, and new information and opportunities related to women’s health policy, primary care, sexual health, pregnancy, pre-conception, postpartum concerns, heart health, mental health, overactive bladder, and many other topics. You can access the new blog by clicking here or by logging on to the NPWH website.
In April, we are offering a new regional CE course, Managing Women’s Health Issues Across a Lifespan. This live, interactive, 1-day meeting will be held at the Sheraton Pasadena Hotel in Pasadena, California. The course will include topics such as LARC, endometriosis, obesity, and genitourinary syndrome of menopause. You can register for this course here. See the back cover of this issue for much more information. And we proudly present the third annual Women’s Sexual Health Course for NPs on June 23-26, 2016, at the Sheraton Mission Valley San Diego Hotel in San Diego, California. New to the sexual health course this year will be a post-conference session for hands-on vulvoscopy training. The program guide for the Women’s Sexual Health Course for NPs appears on pages 8-12 in the journal; registration is available at npwh.org.
Make the most of this exciting year of 2016 by joining NPWH! You won’t want to miss out on all the exciting activities we have planned. And you will want to take advantage of the membership discounts and value-added features that we provide throughout the year.
– Gay Johnson
Chief Executive Officer, NPWH