Speaker Profile

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	Biography Dr Helen Pymar is a Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Early Pregnancy Termination Program and Early Pregnancy Assessment Clinic (EPAC) at Women’s Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She completed a Fellowship in Family Planning and Contraception (Magee Women’s Hospital) and a Master’s in Public Health (University of Pittsburgh) in 2001. Dr Pymar received her medical degree in 1994 from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and completed her residency at Western University London, Ontario in 1999. She has an interest in ultrasound in pregnancy, best management of early pregnancy complications, ER utilization for early pregnancy complications, abortion provision and contraception. She is the co-chair of the EPAC Special Interest Group in the Society of Family Planning and regularly attends the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology ( ISUOG), and Association of Early Pregnancy Units (AEPU) meetings to keep up to date on management of Early Pregnancy complications. Disclosure 1. I have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose: a) Direct financial payments including receipt of honoraria: Organon- Implant insertion instructor for nexplanon. b) Membership on advisory boards or speakers’ bureaus: Organon, Searchlight. c) All other investments or relationships that could be seen by a reasonable, well-informed participant as having the potential to influence the content of the educational activity: I hold investments in Rogers, Telus, Verizon, AT &T, and Pfizer. 2. I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e. “off-label” use of medication).

Biography
Dr Helen Pymar is a Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Early Pregnancy Termination Program and Early Pregnancy Assessment Clinic (EPAC) at Women’s Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She completed a Fellowship in Family Planning and Contraception (Magee Women’s Hospital) and a Master’s in Public Health (University of Pittsburgh) in 2001. Dr Pymar received her medical degree in 1994 from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and completed her residency at Western University London, Ontario in 1999. She has an interest in ultrasound in pregnancy, best management of early pregnancy complications, ER utilization for early pregnancy complications, abortion provision and contraception. She is the co-chair of the EPAC Special Interest Group in the Society of Family Planning and regularly attends the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology ( ISUOG), and Association of Early Pregnancy Units (AEPU) meetings to keep up to date on management of Early Pregnancy complications.
Disclosure
1. I have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose: a) Direct financial payments including receipt of honoraria: Organon- Implant insertion instructor for nexplanon. b) Membership on advisory boards or speakers’ bureaus: Organon, Searchlight. c) All other investments or relationships that could be seen by a reasonable, well-informed participant as having the potential to influence the content of the educational activity: I hold investments in Rogers, Telus, Verizon, AT &T, and Pfizer. 2. I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e. “off-label” use of medication).