Women's pain issues, including menstrual and pregnancy related pain, can often go dismissed due to a lack of training in pelvic pain. This can lead to the undertreatment of pain symptoms in women. How can family physicians better recognize and offer treatments to ensure these issues are being addressed? Listen to this session as our panelists offer personal experience with managing female patients with pelvic pain including investigations and treatment options.
Panelists:
- Marina Abdel Malak, Lecturer, University of Toronto; Assistant Clinical Professor, McMaster University; Assistant Director of Programs, The Foundation for Medical Practice Education; Physician Lead, Primary Care Continuing Medical Education, Trillium Health Partners; Family Physician, Mississauga
- Mathew Leonardi, Gynecologic Surgeon Sonologist, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton, ON
- Rachel Shour, Focused Practice in Mental Health and Medical Psychotherapy; Department of Family and Community Medicine cross appointment in Psychiatry, North York General Hospital; DFCM, Division of Mental Health and Addictions; Lecturer, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Co-host:
- Nikki Bozinoff, Division Head, Mental Health and Addictions, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; Physician, Concurrent Outpatient Medical and Psychosocial Addiction Support Service, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Moderator:
- Stephanie Zhou, Addictions Medicine Physician and EDI & Social Accountability Lead, Sunnybrook Hospital; FHO Lead, Don Mills FHT; Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine; Board Director, Toronto Public Health, Toronto, ON
This session originally took place on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. A live recording can be viewed here.
