Conference Overview
The Medic West Africa congress promotes stakeholder dialogue in areas of leadership and management affecting West African healthcare providers in both the public and private sector. It also highlights clinical specialties which give clinicians an opportunity to benchmark their skills and hear from some of the region’s leading clinicians.
The congress is committed to keeping healthcare stakeholders updated on worldwide healthcare management thinking and experience while creating a forum for regional networking.
Every year the congress offers attendees an opportunity to network, discuss and deliberate with leadership from West African Ministries, authorities, healthcare providers, distributors and solution providers.
Healthcare Insurance Conference
9 October 2019
Developed in partnership with the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria, the ever-popular Healthcare Insurance conference returns to the Medic West Africa exhibition.
Supporting an ultimate goal to improve healthcare policy and enable the provision of high quality, affordable and accessible healthcare across West Africa, this one-day conference is concentrated with quality content. The engaging programme and extensive roster of expert speakers will bring together senior healthcare stakeholders and health professionals to address current challenges, and, to discuss growth and improvement strategy concerning healthcare legislation and their delivery.
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Women’s Health Workshop
9 October 2019
New to the Medic West Africa conference portfolio, it a pleasure to welcome the Women’s Health Workshop!
With the World Health Organisation highlighting that cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide, and the second leading cause of cancer mortality in Nigeria, the country’s focus on eliminating cervical cancer remains a foreboding healthcare priority.
Supporting an ultimate goal to disseminate the latest knowledge and to increase awareness of international best practice, this concise one-day workshop will see an extensive roster of world-renowned expert speakers sharing how to combat this chronic infection, through demonstrative training that addresses both prevention and cure.
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Quality Management conference
9 October 2019
The Quality in Healthcare conference, developed with the support of The Society for Quality in Nigeria (SQHN), will gather senior healthcare professionals to discuss leadership challenges, quality standards and innovations encouraging sustained improvement. Additionally, the carefully curated programme aims to highlight the immense importance of quality in healthcare facilities.
This is a must attend event for all healthcare professions who seek to gain unique and novel insight into the latest best practice that is encouraging continuous improvement of quality and safety in healthcare, across West Africa.
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Leaders in Healthcare Conference
10 October 2019
The Leaders in Healthcare conference presents a premier platform for thought-leaders, including government officials and industry chiefs, to discuss the most topical issues in healthcare in relation to the future of medicine a well as the wider healthcare leadership and management.
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Precision medicine and personalized healthcare in Africa: A genomics approach
10 October 2019
Recent advances in genomic research worldwide have increased the number of therapeutic targets, and this is based on the unique molecular signature of individual diseases. Currently, the entire genome of an individual can be sequenced in
less than 24 hours, for a fraction of its original cost. The resulting data is rich with information that provides us with genetic information that can be used for disease prediction, targeted therapy and personalized healthcare models.
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Sponsored by: 54gene
Medicine, Accountability & Law Conference
9-11 October 2019
The Medicine, Accountability and Law (MAL) Conference considers the ethical and legal implications of aspects of medical practice in the context of Nigerian law. It examines the duty of care responsibility of the licensed practitioner and explores regulatory and policy (implementation) levers for accountability, good governance and safe practice standards on behalf of the public.
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Healthcare Leadership Academy Workshop
11 October 2019
The Healthcare Leadership workshop hosted by the HLA will explore and identify skill gaps across the health system in Nigeria, and more broadly West Africa. With overall care quality, organisational overall performance and staff engagement being directly correlated to leadership, there is an evident need to develop and sustain a culture of effective stewardship from all healthcare professionals and overall effective leadership.
But what is ‘effective leadership’ and how do you implement this actively? Attend this concise one day workshop to discuss address how current and future generations of healthcare professionals can harness the skills, tools, and capabilities to improve health outcomes and wellbeing through good governance and employing ‘leadership best practice’ tactics.
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