The accreditation for CME credits has been obtained from the EACCME (European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education). Attendants will get 15 credits for the whole congress. All CME activities approved by the EACCME are valid for recognition by the American Medical Association (AMA) towards the Physician's Recognition Award (PRA). There are also German CME-Credits available: Deutsche CME-Punkte: 28.07.2010: 3 Punkte 29.07.2010: 6 Punkte 30.07.2010: 6 Punkte 31.07.2010: 3 Punkte

The three-Day Tour - along the rivers Rhine and Mosel and the Hightlights of Germany Tour are cancelled since only few people had booked these tours. The one-day tip - Castles around Münster is fully booked. You cannot register for this tour anymore!

There are various exciting workshops at the upcoming meeting and highly interesting talks and posters. More information and the final programme can be found here.

There is a very informative webpage about Münster in English. You can find information about history, sightseing and dining. Please have a look

We got so many requests for free lodging, that all lodging places are gone. Those who applied for free lodging already are put on a waiting list.

Registration fees for the upcoming meeting you can find here.

Information on visa requirements and travel to Münster you can find here.

On Friday, 30 July 2010, you are kindly invited to celebrate our gala evening together with us at the historical site “Bröker’s Speicher No. 10" . For more information see here.

A list of hotels for the upcoming MWIA congress is available here.

A special committee dedicated to young doctors and medical students has just started to plan various exciting activities for the world congress 2010.
Being curious?
You can find more information here.

You can now download a preliminary flyer offering condensed information about the congress in English: flyer.pdf and in German: flyergerman.pdf

The international scientific committee chose 4 main topics for the meeting in 2010. We felt that these would depict important global issues and would be of interest of medical doctor from all over the world too. These are: gender strategies, addiction, epidemic plagues and nutrition. Invited talks will cover topics such as gender strategies, gender based war violence, the addictive brain, internet addiction, TB-globalization and resistances, gender inequality and HIV prevention strategies, selfish brain: the origin of obesity and interventions for preventing obesity in children. More information you can find here.

It is an honour that Ursula von der Leyen, German Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs (former German Federal Minister for family affairs, senior citizens, women and youth) agreed on being the patroness for the MWIA world congress 2010 in Münster. She is a medical doctor herself and a mother of seven. Many of the topics of this meeting are very important to her such as e.g. prevention strategies of obesity in children, gender inequality to name a few.

The members of our international scientific committee, which is chaired by Prof. Dr. Dr. Bettina Pfleiderer, Germany (local organization committee) are as follows: Prof. Dr. Marianne Schrader, Germany (Vice-president, German Medical Women´s Association), Dr. Astrid Bühren (President, German Medical Women´s Association). Dr. Shelley Ross, Canada (Secretary-General MWIA), Dr. Waltraud Diekhaus, Germany (Vice President, Central Europe MWIA), Dr. Ólöf Sigurðardóttir, Iceland (Vice President, Northern Europe MWIA) Prof. Dr. Kyung-Ah Park, Korea (Financial Chair of the MWIA) and Prof. Dr. Afua Hesse, Ghana (President-elect MWIA).

The main tasks of the committee are: Planning the scientific programme including plenaries oral presentations and workshops, inviting plenary speakers, reviewing abstracts