Chair / Speaker

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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Sara Moger – Chief Executive, British Menopause Society

Mr Haitham Hamoda

Consultant Gynaecologist, Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, King’s College Hospital, London; Chairman and Trustee – British Menopause Society Biography

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Mr Haitham Hamoda MD MRCOG

Mr Haitham Hamoda is a Consultant Gynaecologist and Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery. He is the Clinical Lead for the Menopause Service at King’s College Hospital and the Chairman of the British Menopause Society. Mr Hamoda has published widely in his specialised field and is actively involved in ongoing research projects both locally and nationally and teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

He is co-author of The British Menopause Society & Women’s Health Concern 2021 recommendations on hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women and author of the British Menopause Society guideline on the management of women with premature ovarian insufficiency 2017.

Mr Hamoda is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and was awarded a degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the University of Aberdeen. He obtained his accreditation as a subspecialist in reproductive medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital.

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Chair: Mr Tim Hillard

Biography

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Mr Tim Hillard

Graduated from Southampton University and spent most of his postgraduate training at King’s College Hospital, London where he developed special interests in Menopause and Uro-gynaecology. He received his MD (1994) for work on transdermal HRT and osteoporosis. Appointed Consultant in Poole in 1994 and heads a busy Uro-gynaecological department and runs one of the few specialist menopause clinics in the South of England outside London. He has lectured and published widely on various aspects of the Menopause and Uro-gynaecology.

Positions held:
British Menopause Society: Past Chairman and founding Trustee.
International Menopause Society: Board member and Associate Editor of Climacteric
British Uro-Gynaecology Society (BSUG); past Secretary and Chairman of the meetings committee
RCOG: past Chairman of the Patient Safety Committee and Clinical Lead for Patient Safety.
Patient Groups: Patron of The Daisy Network and Medical advisor to Women’s Health Concern

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Professor Martha Hickey

Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne; Royal Women’s Hospital/Mercy Hospital for Women Biography

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Professor Martha Hickey

BA (Hons); MSc (Clin Psych); MBChB, FRCOG, FRANZCOG, MD

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
University of Melbourne

Martha Hickey is a Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne and an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow. She trained in the UK and moved to Australia in 2002. She leads the Gynaecology Research Centre at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Victoria, Australia. In her clinical practice she runs the largest menopause service in Australia and established the first multidisciplinary service for managing menopausal symptoms after cancer (MSAC). She leads the international WHAM (What Happens after Menopause?) prospective controlled study of surgical menopause in high-risk women. She is an Editor for the Cochrane Collaboration Gynaecology and Infertility Group and leads the international COMMA (Core Outcomes in Menopause) program.

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Interactive panel session with speakers, BMS trustees and medical advisory council members

Dr Marla Shapiro CM, MDCM, CCFP, MHSC, FRCPC, FCFP, NCMP

Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine/Preventive Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada Biography

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Marla Shapiro

Dr. Shapiro completed medical school at McGill University and trained at the University of Toronto for her Masters of Health Science. She concluded her specialty training in Community Medicine, receiving her Fellowship in Preventive Medicine and Public Health from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. She also holds a Fellowship in Family Medicine and is currently a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Shapiro is seen on CTV NewsChannel and is the medical consultant on CTV’s National News.

She is the author of the bestselling book, Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast Cancer.

She was the President of the North American Menopause Society in 2017 and presently is in the Board of Trustees for the International Menopause Society.

In 2015 Dr. Shapiro was named a Member of the Order of Canada for her contributions as a family physician and trusted source of health information. One of this country’s highest civilian honours, the Order of Canada recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community, and service to the nation.

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FOR: Professor Anne MacGregor

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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AGAINST: Miss Swati Jha

Consultant Gynaecologist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals; Chair, The British Society of Urogynaecology Biography

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Miss Swati Jha

Miss Swati Jha trained as an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in Birmingham and completed her subspecialty training in Urogynaecology before being appointed to a Consultant post at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in 2008. In this short span of 11 years she has been involved nationally in curriculum design and implementation and in developing several new services at STH including the Laparoscopic Urogynaecology and advanced Paediatric Adolescent Gynaecology services. She has been actively involved in research and has over 100 medline indexed publications and recently wrote a book on Medicolegal Issues in Obs and Gynae. She is current Chair of the BSUG and took up office in October last year after serving as Vice Chair for two years.

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Interactive panel session with speakers, BMS trustees and medical advisory council members

Dr Paula Briggs & Professor Anne MacGregor

Dr Paula Briggs, Mr Haitham Hamoda & Professor Anne MacGregor