{"id":28892,"date":"2025-11-04T11:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=28892"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:41:03","slug":"alys-smith-symposium-on-women-professionals-to-feature-melanie-hall-ceo-of-hospice-of-huntington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/alys-smith-symposium-on-women-professionals-to-feature-melanie-hall-ceo-of-hospice-of-huntington\/","title":{"rendered":"Alys Smith Symposium on Women Professionals to feature Melanie Hall, CEO of Hospice of Huntington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Marshall University will host the seventh Alys Smith Symposium on Women Professionals at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, in the Shawkey Dining Room of the Memorial Student Center. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium will feature a keynote address by Melanie Hall, president and CEO of Hospice of Huntington. After the keynote, a panel of local women professionals in the health care field will include a physician, two registered nurses, a radiation physicist and a physician assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Hilary Brewster is the director of the Women\u2019s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot believe we are hosting our seventh symposium already,\u201d Brewster said. \u201cThese events have become informational and networking resources for students and the community alike. I\u2019ve seen internships develop out of casual conversations. Everyone is welcome \u2014 students thinking about a career in the medical field, maybe someone in the community considering a career pivot. Learning from experts is a key component to consider when choosing a professional path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Alys Smith Symposium is sponsored by the Women\u2019s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and the Office of the President. It celebrates and highlights the achievements and contributions of women in various professional fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealth care is a key component of our society, and these women are contributing to our health and wellness in varied, important ways,\u201d Brewster said. \u201cI am especially interested to hear Hall\u2019s keynote address. Hospice might be the closest thing we have to angels on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Hilary Brewster at <a href=\"mailto:brewsterh@marshall.edu\">brewsterh@marshall.edu<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University will host the seventh Alys Smith Symposium on Women Professionals at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, in the Shawkey Dining Room of the Memorial Student Center. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. The symposium will feature a keynote address by Melanie Hall, president and CEO of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cola","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28895,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892\/revisions\/28895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}