「子宮頸癌防治月」一月:HPV研討會

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「子宮頸癌防治月」一月:HPV研討會

Jan 31st 2018
12:30pm - 2:00pm
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活動詳情

在香港,卵巢癌與子宮頸癌是十大致命率最高的癌症,每兩日便有一名香港女性死於子宮頸癌。

 

跟大多婦科癌症一樣,子宮頸癌初期只有輕微甚至零病徵,除非定期篩查,否則很難發現。因此,HPV疫苗與篩查對防止患上子宮頸癌非常重要。是次研討會將討論婦科癌症的高危因素,介紹婦科癌症的跡象和徵狀以助早日識別,並講解梁愷昍婦癌基金會如何設法應付香港預防措施不足(尤以弱勢社群為甚)的問題。

地址

香港中環冠君大廈(前名花旗銀行大廈)5樓Eaton House

Program

12:30pm

Arrival & check-in

12:40pm

Session starts

1:20pm

Session ends

1:20pm

Q&A

2:00pm

Event closes

Speakers

Katharina Reimer

Executive Director

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Judy Li

Healthcare Program Manager

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Katharina Reimer

Executive Director

Miss Katharina Reimer is the Executive Director of the Karen Leung Foundation (“KLF”), a Hong Kong based registered charity which works to save lives in Asia by raising awareness of gynaecological cancers, educating women to increase rates of early detection and ensuring that women in treatment have access to optimal medical care. Miss Reimer leads all aspects of the Foundation’s strategy & development, fund-raising and operations. She is also a Founding member of the APAC HPV Coalition, a think tank which aims to advance the awareness, prevention and treatment of HPV-related disease.

Katharina is a passionate advocate for social change and has been heavily involved in supporting several charities and philanthropic causes across Asia and acted as strategic media advisor to a number of public sector organizations in the Middle East and Africa in the earlier parts of her career. Since arriving in Hong Kong in 2004, she has led & supported initiatives and charities that foster positive social change to advance female empowerment such as 100Women in Finance and Asian University for Women HK Foundation amongst others.

Katharina holds a Bachelor degree from the University of West of England (Bristol, England) and a Master in Economics from the Berlin School of Economics and Law. She has lived in over 20 countries and is fluent in three languages. She currently lives with her husband and their two children in Hong Kong.

Judy Li

Healthcare Program Manager

Judy Li joined the Foundation as Healthcare Program Manager in 2017.

Judy began her career as a registered nurse in Canada, serving in the community and the operating theatre after receiving her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Ryerson University in Toronto. She also holds a Master of Public Health from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Several post graduate diplomas & appointments had her spend time at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium and as Community Health Officer for disaster relief in China and Nepal to name a few. In addition, Judy has great experience working with charitable organizations in low- and middle- income settings around the world, where she has deployed her expertise in the areas of health promotion of maternal and child health. 

After having spent most of her life abroad, Judy recently found her way back to Hong Kong and she looks to bring positive change to the Hong Kong community by applying her knowledge and international experience to KLF. Judy now lives in Hong Kong with her husband and young daughter.

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