MWF Spring Conference 2025 & MWIA Regional Meeting - 15th - 17th May 2025, Cambridge
Redefining Health - with women doctors
You are invited to join us at the MWF Spring Conference 2025 titled ‘Redefining Health - with women doctors.’ To book your place at the MWF Spring Conference 2025, please use our online booking form. Click here.
Booking is open!
All welcome, including allies.
All welcome to join us for dinner, even if unable to attend for the whole conference.
All venues are a 15-minute walk from Cambridge railway station – with fast late trains available.
Submit 250-word abstracts on any aspect of the conference theme, for poster or national podium presentation. Deadline is: 2nd February at midnight
CPD points will be applied for.
In-person attendance is encouraged, with networking opportunities. For the all-day Friday sessions, this is a hybrid conference with online attendance possible.
Thursday 15th May 2025 – Formal Dinner - Downing College Cambridge
Speaker: Dr Rachel Clarke – palliative care doctor, bestselling author, journalist and BMJ columnist
Friday 16th May 2025 9.45am-5pm – Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
Highlights:
- Dr Gemma Newman – on wellbeing and preventing burnout
- Nutrition “debate” (Plant-based, sustainable, B12 deficiency, Ultra-Processed Food, Low carb reversing obesity and type 2 diabetes, etc.)
- Panel of multiple medical women’s organisations from around UK – ‘What are we doing? What needs to be done?'
- National podium presentations x4 – selected from abstracts submitted
- Dame Hilda Rose Memorial Lecture – distinguished speaker TBC
- Prizes
- Networking
- Sustainable conference, plant-based lunch, coffee and tea breaks
- Sponsors and charity presence
- Option to join virtually
- Let us know if you would use the adjacent breastfeeding/toddler room which will have a livestream of the conference
- Optional Informal Supper
Saturday 17th May 2025 10am-12.30pm – Cambridge. International session.
Combined event MWF and MWIA (Medical Women’s International Association) Northern Europe Region
International speakers and discussion about:
The Woman Doctor’s Experience and her Work Environment in different northern European countries
How countries are progressing in tackling Violence against Women and Girls.
Call for Spring Conference Abstracts
We are accepting abstract submissions for the MWF Spring Conference on the conference theme. This is a fantastic opportunity to share your research or project findings with colleagues from across the UK! Full submission details can be located on our website here. The deadline for all submissions is midnight on the 2nd February 2025.
Lady Estelle Wolfson Bursary
We are delighted to confirm that we will be offering the Lady Estelle Wolfson Conference Bursary once again. The bursary aims to encourage medical students and junior doctor members of the MWF to attend the Spring Conference. The bursary has been generously supported by Lady Estelle Wolfson (Chair of the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation). Full information is available here.
Hotel Recommendations
MWF have secured a special rate for delegates who are staying at The Clayton Hotel in Cambridge from the 15th - 17th May 2025. To book, email
Please note, this discount is only available until 17th April 2025. After this date, rooms will be charged at the normal rate. The cancellation policy for the allocation block will be 2 weeks prior the day of arrival, by 14:00 (local time of the hotel). In the event of a no-show or late cancellation, the hotel will charge the total amount to the credit card used as a guarantee.
Buddying
We know that coming to a conference for the first time on your own can seem a bit daunting, MWF is glad to announce the launch of a buddying scheme that allows first time attendees to be buddied with MWF Members. If you are interested in being buddied, kindly register your interest here.
Gift registration
MWF Conferences present an opportunity to donate a gift conference place to a colleague, friend, family member or MWF member. If you would like to donate a conference space to someone, please email
If you are a member of the MWF and would like to register your interest as a recipient of a donated conference place, please register your details here. Please note, this is very much subject to availability.
Partner and support
The Spring Conference and its activities offer a range of opportunities to join the conversation as a sponsor or charity partner. Please get in touch to discuss working together by contacting
