Answering the call: the Weston and O’Born Centre for Mature Women's Health
Sinai Health is leading the charge in creating a world-class Centre that will address the full spectrum of health challenges women experience throughout their lives. It will offer services across a range of specialties to meet their diverse medical needs.
This is more than a space. It’s a transformative shift in the ways we deliver care to women throughout their lives. Our work will help change standards for care delivery, train the next generation of care providers and conduct research with global reach.
We're uniting care to meet the urgent demand for improved access and delivery
Donate now to help transform care for women and support a one-of-a-kind Centre
Increase access to care
- Build a state-of-the-art facility that will help expand clinical capacity
- Enhance the care experience by fostering collaboration between specialists and offering an interdisciplinary care model
- Integrate new specialties that address the full range of health challenges that women can face throughout their lives
Change the future of care through research
- Establish first-of-their-kind chairs in menopause and emerging fields in mature women's health to discover the treatments of tomorrow
- Set new standards in caring for women before, during and after menopause
- Invest in research specifically aimed at improving women’s health
Improve care through education and training
- Expand our menopause training programs, leading to more experts in the field
- Develop curriculum in menopause for learners at all levels – from medical students to seasoned doctors who want to learn more
- Build patient tools and resources for the broader community
Sinai Health has what it takes
Our expertise and vision position us to lead the world with a Centre dedicated to mature women’s health research, education and care.
Thanks to the generosity of our community, we've surpassed our initial fundraising goals. But we’re just getting started. And we need your help to build on this momentum so we can continue to impact more women whose voices are still being ignored.
- Our internationally recognized menopause clinics support more than 2,500 women annually and we are home to the only premature ovarian insufficiency clinic in Canada.
- Sinai Health is one of the only academic centres in the world to make menopause and women’s health a key strategic priority.
- Our donors have helped establish North America’s only endowed clinical chair in menopause, the Carol Mitchell Chair in Menopause.
- Ours is one of the only postgraduate fellowship programs in menopause in North America.
- The SHE-CAN Clinic is Canada’s first specialized clinic focusing on genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) in breast cancer patients – integrating research with patient care.
- We’re leading research on how to improve lifelong cardiometabolic health in women and children with the support of the Canadian Institute of Health Research.
Dr. Gary Newton, Sinai Health President and CEO with philanthropist Carol Mitchell, who established the Carol Mitchell Chair in Menopause – North America’s first chair in this area and held by Dr. Wendy Wolfman, Director of the Weston and O’Born Centre for Mature Women’s Health, and Louis de Melo, President and CEO, Sinai Health Foundation.
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