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Professor Anne MacGregor – Joint Chairman, Conference Scientific Advisory Group

Associate Specialist in Sexual & Reproductive Health, Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust, London; Member – BMS medical advisory council Biography

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Professor Anne MacGregor

Anne is a Specialist in Headache and Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare at Barts Health NHS Trust, London and has an academic post at the Centre for Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma at Queen Mary, University of London. Her clinical work crosses the boundaries between neurology and reproductive medicine. She is a recognised trainer for the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Medicine for the Diploma, Letters of Competence and Menopause. She has undertaken research in all aspects of primary headaches but her main interest focusses on the effects of sex hormones on headache. In addition to her work in headache she is active in Medical Education and she is a Fellow of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare.

She has been a member of the BMS for more than 20 years and now serves on the medical advisory council.

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Mr Edward Morris

Consultant Gynaecologist, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital; President – Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists; Trustee – British Menopause Society Biography

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Mr Edward Morris

Mr Edward Morris MD FRCOG is a consultant in Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He has wide and varied interests across obstetrics and gynaecology and was Clinical Director for seven years. He was part of the curriculum design team for the obstetrics and gynaecology course for Norwich Medical School which opened in 2002 and has been an active senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia since, teaching undergraduates and supervising MD and PhD higher degrees.

He is currently President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Prior to that he was Vice President for Clinical Quality (2016-2019) and Fellows representative for the East of England on RCOG Council (2011-2016).

Mr Morris leads specialist menopause and tertiary endometriosis services. He has authored over 70 peer reviewed articles, book chapters and national documents, is co-editor of the journal Post Reproductive Health and inventor of the website Manage My Menopause.

He is globally recognised for his work in patient safety, guidelines and medical device work with the MHRA. He was the inaugural chair of the RCOG Patient Safety and Quality Committee and chairman of the British Menopause Society 2013-2015.

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Ms Melanie Davies

Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, University College London Hospitals; Member – BMS medical advisory council Biography

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Ms Melanie Davies

MBBS MA MRCP FRCOG

• Consultant Gynaecologist, University College London Hospitals and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University College London
• Clinical Director, Women’s Health guideline programme, National Guideline Alliance
• Member of NICE guideline development group for Menopause (2013-2014)
  Co-chair of ESHRE guideline development group, Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (2012-2014)
• Service lead for specialist clinics in Menopause at UCLH, with additional regular clinics dedicated to Premature Ovarian Insufficiency, “Late Effects” of cancer therapy, and Turner syndrome.
• Invited speaker in national and international meetings on HRT and management of POI (e.g. ESHRE 2013, EuroPAG 2014, ESHRE 2014, BES 2015)
• Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council

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Professor Richard Anderson

Professor of Clinical Reproductive Science, University of Edinburgh Biography

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Professor Richard Anderson

Elsie Inglis Professor of Clinical Reproductive Science
Head of Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Edinburgh

Richard trained in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, with experience in clinical research first developed from a WHO study of male contraception at the MRC Reproductive Biology Unit. He completed his clinical training as a lecturer in the University of Edinburgh, subspecialising in reproductive medicine under the guidance of David Baird. After a year as an MRC Travelling Fellow in Sam Yen’s laboratory in San Diego, he returned to the now renamed MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit with an honorary consultant appointment, and was subsequently appointed to his current post at the University of Edinburgh in 2005. He has developed a combined basic science and clinical research programme in the human ovary, particularly its development, lifespan and the impact of cancer treatments, and has also undertaken early-phase clinical studies of the role of kisspeptin and neurokinin B in the control of male and female reproductive function.

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Professor Ali Jawad

Consultant Rheumatologist, Royal London Hospital and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Biography

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Professor Ali S M Jawad

MB ChB, MSc, FRCP, FRCPEd, FRCPG, DCH, DMedRehab
Hans Sloane Fellow and Vice President (global), Royal College of Physicians, London Consultant Rheumatologist, The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London Professor of Rheumatology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London

Professor Jawad is originally from Baghdad, Iraq. He has published widely: 3 books, chapters in several books and more than 220 articles in learned journals. He has won several research grants investigating the role of cytokines on bone in rheumatoid arthritis and runs a metabolic bone service. He Is MRCP (UK) clinical examiner and external examiner for Sultan Qaboos University College of Medicine and Health Sciences. He was director of medical and dental education at Barts Health NHS Trust, RCP associate international director for the Middle East and North Africa and external examiner for MB BS at UCL.

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Professor Cyrus Cooper

Director of the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit; Vice Dean; Professor of Rheumatology; Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, University of Southampton Biography

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Professor Cyrus Cooper

OBE, DL, MA, DM, FRCP, FFPH, FMedSci

Cyrus Cooper is Professor of Rheumatology and Director of the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit; Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton; and Professor of Epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford. He leads an internationally competitive programme of research into the epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorders, most notably osteoporosis. He is President of the International Osteoporosis Foundation; Chair of the Arthritis Research UK Clinical Studies Initiative; Chair of the BHF Project Grants Committee; an emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator; and Associate Editor of Osteoporosis International. He has published extensively (over 1000 research papers) on osteoporosis and rheumatic disorders and pioneered clinical studies on the developmental origins of peak bone mass.

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Dr Angie Rantell

Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist Urogynaecology, King’s College Hospital, London Biography

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Dr Angie Rantell

PhD, RCN ALNP

Angie gained a BSc (Hons) in Nursing Studies from King’s College London in 2003. She started working in the field of women’s health, first as a staff nurse and then as a sister on a gynaecology, breast care and early pregnancy ward.

Since 2007, Angie has been working in the Urogynaecology Department at King’s College Hospital and is currently the lead nurse / nurse cystoscopist. She is actively involved in research and was awarded a PhD in Urogynaecology in 2019 investigating sexual function in women with overactive bladder. In 2019 Angie was also awarded RCN credentialing for advanced level nursing practice.

To date she has published over 35 articles in peer reviewed journals and has written book chapters and contributed to National guidelines. As well as her clinical and research activities she provides advice to governmental bodies including NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s) throughout the UK. She is the current chair of the Nursing and Midwifery special interest group within IUGA.

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Mr Nick Panay

Mr Nick Panay Consultant Gynaecologist, Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine; President elect – International Menopause Society; Member – BMS medical advisory council Biography

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Mr Nick Panay

As director of the Menopause & PMS Centres at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals, Nick leads a busy clinical and research team which publishes widely, presents at scientific meetings and trains health professionals at all levels.

Much of his team’s research has focused on improving the understanding and management of Menopause, Premature Ovarian Insufficiency, PMS, Female Sexual Dysfunction and novel therapeutic regimens e.g. Neurokinin receptor antagonists.

Through his work with a number of societies, councils and women’s groups he campaigns actively for women’s health issues both nationally and internationally. His affiliations include:

Board Member and President Elect, International Menopause Society,
Past Chairman of The British Menopause Society (BMS),
Medical Advisory Council Member, BMS
Chairman of The National Association for Premenstrual Syndromes,
Clinical Advisory Board Member, International Association for Premenstrual Disorders,
Patron of Daisy Network
Past Honorary Director of Conferences, RCOG,
Past President and Council member, Royal Society of Medicine (O & G Division).

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Dr Paula Briggs – Joint Chairman, Conference Scientific Advisory Group

Consultant in Sexual & Reproductive Health, Liverpool Women’s Hospital; Member – BMS medical advisory council Biography

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Dr Paula Briggs

Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health based at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust.
Paula qualified from Glasgow University in 1987.

She trained as a GP before moving to Liverpool in 1993 and worked in General Practice and Sexual Health until 2012.

She is now devoted to delivery of women’s health care, research and education. Her main interest is menopause management with a particular interest in vaginal atrophy.

She has co-edited 3 books, co-written an undergraduate textbook in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and a revision guide for MFSRH and written a patient booklet on menopause.

She is married with four children and enjoys running, golf, yoga, reading and cooking.

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Professor Ludwig Kiesel

Chairman, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Münster School of Medicine, Münster, Germany Biography

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Professor Ludwig Kiesel

Ludwig Kiesel, MD, PhD, is Chairman of the Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics at the University of Münster School of Medicine, Germany.

He has studied at the University of the Heidelberg School of Medicine Germany, and the Royal Free Hospital Medical School at the University of London UK. Thereafter he earned a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland from 1981-1982. Following his residency at the University of Heidelberg he was faculty member at the University of Tübingen until 2000.

Professor Kiesel is the president of the German Society of Gynecological Endocrinology and Fertility (DGGEF) and member of the board of the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS). He has served previously as president of the German Menopause Society (DMG), the German Joint Societies of Reproductive Medicine (DVR), the German Endometriosis Society (SEF) and as board member of the World Endometriosis Society (WES). His main interests are endometriosis, menopause, minimal invasive surgery and mechanisms of endocrine regulation.

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Professor Emma Crosbie

Professor of Gynaecological Oncology, St Mary’s Hospital, University of Manchester Biography

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Professor Emma Crosbie

Emma Crosbie is Professor of Gynaecological Oncology at the University of Manchester. She leads a multidisciplinary research group that focuses on the screening, prevention and early detection of gynaecological cancers. Of particular interest is developing novel interventions for the prevention and treatment of obesity-driven endometrial cancer. Nationally, she is the NCRI Endometrial Cancer Subgroup Chair and internationally, she is Gynaecology Lead of the European Hereditary Tumor Group. Her clinical practice specialises in the fertility-sparing management of women with endometrial cancer and the surgical care of women with gynaecological cancers.

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Em. Prof Dr. Herjan J.T. Coelingh Bennink

President and Founder, Pantarhei Bioscience/ Pantarhei Oncology, Zeist, The Netherlands Biography

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Em. Prof. Dr. Herjan J.T. Coelingh Bennink

Em. Prof. Dr. Herjan Coelingh Bennink (HCB), MD, PhD, trained in Internal Medicine and Gynaecology in the Netherlands and certified in 1976 as specialist in ObGyn. In 1974 he was Research Fellow at the Center of Reproductive Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (Prof Jan Behrman). Since 1976 he was director of the Department of Reproductive Endocrinology at the University Hospital in Utrecht. In 1980 he completed his PhD thesis on Gestational Diabetes. From 1997-2005 HCB was visiting professor RM at the Free University in Brussels, Belgium.

From 1987-2000 HCB was Executive VP of the Women’s Health R&D programme at Organon in The Netherlands, where he was responsible for the development of drugs such as recFSH and the GnRH antagonist Antagon, both for IVF; the Nuvaring, Implanon and Cerazette for contraception and Livial for HRT.

HCB founded Pantarhei Bioscience in 2000, where he developed the natural fetal estrogen Estetrol (E4) for contraception and HRT and since 2015 for the treatment of advanced breast and prostate cancer, a new combined contraceptive pill containing DHEA to prevent the loss of testosterone (ARC: Androgen Restored Contraception) and an immunological method for the treatment of Zona Pellucida 3 (ZP3) antigen expressing ovarian, prostate and lung cancer.

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Dr Julia Prague

Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital and University of Exeter Biography

Mr Nicholas Thomas

Consultant Neurosurgeon with specialist interest in complex spinal surgery, endoscopic pituitary surgery, neurofibromatosis and skull base surgery Biography

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Mr Nicholas Thomas

Mr Thomas qualified from the London Hospital in 1988.

Following general surgical training he completed the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Glasgow) and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (England) in 1993.

He trained in neurosurgery at the Atkinson Morley Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the National Hospital.

Following this he completed a year’s Spinal fellowship at Ohio State University and went on to complete the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Surgical Neurology in 1998.

Mr Thomas has also developed interests in pituitary surgery, skull base surgery and surgery of acoustic neuromas. He is now a Member of the Advisory Board of Neurofibromatosis in the U.K.

He has recently retired as Lead Clinician of Neurosurgery at King’s College Hospital and continues to perform general spine care services.

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Professor Michael Hornberger

Professor of Applied Dementia Research, Norwich Medical School, UEA, Associate Dean of Innovation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UEA, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Biography

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Professor Michael Hornberger

Michael is the Professor of Applied Dementia Research at the Norwich Medical School, UEA. His research focuses on diagnosis and management of pre-symptomatic and symptomatic dementia. In particular, identifying at-risk-of-dementia healthy people; predicting and managing dementia to allow better prevention and disease management of patients. He is working in close collaboration with clinicians, nurses, healthcare professionals and psychologists to approach dementia from a multi-disciplinary angle. Michael is originally from Germany but gravitated soon to England where he did his PhD at University College London before working at Cambridge University. He is at the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia since 2015. In his spare time, he loves running and cycling and playing passionately, though badly, the violin.

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