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Tanner Health hosted The SHE Conference earlier this week, celebrating women’s health and wellness and encouraging them to make themselves a priority. 

The interactive conference brought together women from different backgrounds for an engaging, thought-provoking experience centering on their physical, emotional and mental well-being.

Keynote speaker Phyllis Wilson, RN, a registered nurse and decorated Iraq War veteran, shared her powerful story of resilience and self-advocacy. She urged attendees to recognize and embrace their own strength.

“We all have our inner Wonder Woman,” said Wilson. “We need to be kind enough to ourselves to embrace that inner Wonder Woman, or find it in somebody else and help bring it out.”

Attendees also heard from a panel of Tanner Health’s leading ladies and ambassadors in women’s health, including:

• Allison Taylor, RN, labor and delivery nurse manager at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton
• Shannon Couvreur, DO, obstetrics and gynecology specialist, Tanner Healthcare for Women
• Schuyler Cook, DO, internal medicine physician, West Georgia Internal Medicine
• Meagen Thompson, MA, LPC, director of behavioral health, Willowbrooke at Tanner
• Rev. Joannah Cook, M. Div, chaplain, Tanner Health

Attendees also had the option to participate in sound healing and tai chi sessions, or visit a pop-up Tanner gift shop.

All proceeds from the event registration directly benefit Tanner Medical Foundation’s Women’s Health Fund, keeping funds in the community to help local women. For more on how to support the foundation’s Women’s Health Fund or any other areas of Tanner Health, visit TannerMedicalFoundation.org.

The SHE Conference was part of Tanner Health's celebration of its first 75 years since Tanner Memorial Hospital opened in Carrollton in 1949.

Several scheduled events are planned honoring the first visionaries who found a way forward to give their neighbors and loved ones a new level of care — and the legacy of those who followed to ensure that care would always be available near home. This milestone also provided a unique opportunity to rebrand from Tanner Health System to Tanner Health, with a new logo and a new tagline: Your care, redefined. Learn more and watch the video at tanner.org/75years.