The Women’s Health Matters Forum & Expo is a two day interactive health education and consumer lifestyle event for women and men of all ages. The event typically draws up to 20,000 visitors a year.

The show provides health care consumers, medical and complementary health-care providers, leaders and advocates with an opportunity to attend:

• 40+ seminars featuring top medical experts and other health care professionals. Seminars cover topics of special concern to women, such as: nutrition, ovarian and colorectal cancer, osteoporosis, menopause, reproductive health, heart health, HIV/Aids, depression, pain & stress management, skin care, mood disorders, immune health, body image and much more…
• Keynote presentations by leading international experts on women’s health and the environment
• 120+ Exhibits hosted by companies, agencies and organizations at the forefront of women’s health featuring products for sale related to healthy lifestyles and consumer health care; hospital programs in women’s health; and organizations and agencies who provide services and information in diverse aspects of women’s health
• Dynamic and interactive exhibits, themed installations and attractions, scheduled "Ask the Experts" and demonstration programs throughout the expo hall
• A special Luncheon Keynote Speaker brings together 400 - 800 guests
• A special keynote presentation
• X-Effects, A Conference on sex and gender differences in depressive and anxiety disorders for physicians, allied health professionals, corporate executives and HR professionals

Sharing our knowledge to inform and empower patients and communities is one way that the New Women’s College Hospital delivers new thinking. The Women’s Health Matters Forum & Expo has provided vital health information to women and their families since 1997. Read more about the show’s history.

This year’s program will be posted online, November 2008.