The Ryan Program Grand Rounds Speakers Bureau is one of the resources we provide to support departments keep up to date in important and evolving areas in family planning. Ryan Program speakers are nationally renowned family planning experts at the forefront of research and clinical care in abortion and contraception. See our flyer.
Examples of patient-centered, evidence-based presentation topics:
| CONTRACEPTION Non-coercive contraception counseling Updates in contraceptive care Complex contraception care Postpartum contraception |
ABORTION Abortion 101: an overview of abortion care and access Medication abortion innovations Demystifying and destigmatizing second-trimester abortion Pain management in abortion care |
| GYNECOLOGY Misoprostol in gynecologic practice Management of early pregnancy loss Integrating uterine aspiration in your clinical practice Pregnancy of Unknown Location |
FAMILY PLANNING Justice and equity in family planning care Physician advocacy in family planning Shared decision making in family planning |
Examples of more specialized clinical topics include:
- Cesarean scar pregnancy
- Copper IUD extended use (quick start)
- Immediate postpartum contraception
- Induction of labor vs D&E decision making for anomalies or fetal demise
- Mifepristone use: induction of labor for second trimester abortion and early pregnancy loss
- Pain with outpatient gynecologic procedures
- Pediatric or Adolescent gynecology topics (e.g. Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) in Adolescents, etc.)
- US Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use in clinical practice
- Uterine evacuation outside of the OR
Examples of other service-related topics include:
- Creating a complex contraception clinic
- Expanding family services
- Health care operations (eg. billing, coding, management)
- Setting up an immediate postpartum LARC program
- Setting up surgical management of early pregnancy loss in the office
We are happy to further discuss topics to help best fit your department’s needs. Your family planning speaker request will be circulated to Ryan Program family planning experts in our speakers bureau. Any speakers expressing availability for your request will be put in direct contact with you.
We provide financial support for a select number of talks each year during biannual application cycles. To be added to the application announcement email list, please email info@ryanprogram.org.