USF Health physicians to speak at Women's Health Symposium

– USF President Judy Genshaft will deliver keynote at March 27 event –

Six USF Health physicians will be featured as speakers at the fifth annual Focus on Females Women’s Health Symposium from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 27, at the Tampa Convention Center.

USF Health is among the sponsors of the free symposium, which will feature USF President Judy Genshaft as the keynote speaker.

The event is intended to foster and encourage the education of women about personal health by providing practical, relevant and ready-to-use health information. In addition to seminars on a wide range of health topics by physician experts, the symposium offers health screenings, fitness classes and chair massages.

The USF Health physicians scheduled to speak and their topics are:

Dr. Karen Goldberg, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, “Raising Your Child Without Going Crazy”

Dr. Lenox Hoyte, Obstetrics and Gynecology, “Bladder Incontinence”

Dr. Dennis Ledford, Internal Medicine, “Allergies and Asthma”

Dr. Mary Lien, Dermatology, “Skin Cancer”

Dr. Shayne Plosker, Obstetrics and Gynecology, “Fertility and Family”

Dr. Maria Carmen Wilson, Neurology, “Migraines and Other Headaches”

For more information, please go to http://www.focusonfemales.com/index.html