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Co-chair: Dr Juliet Balfour

GP, Somerset NHS Menopause Service; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography

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Dr Juliet Balfour

Dr Juliet Balfour has been a GP for over 30 years, specialising in women’s health and sexual health. In 2021 she successfully lobbied for funding for an NHS specialist menopause service for Somerset which she continues to run. She also has a small private menopause clinic.

She is a British Menopause Society registered menopause specialist and trainer and is a member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council. She delivers menopause education to healthcare professionals in Somerset and nationally. She has contributed to articles relating to the menopause in most of the national newspapers and posts evidence-based menopause information on Instagram as @menopausehealth.

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Co-chair: Dr Heather Currie MBE

Mr Haitham Hamoda

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

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Mr Haitham Hamoda

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 a Trustee 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 the first author of The British Menopause Society & Women’s Health Concern 2016 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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Mr Tim Hillard

Consultant Gynaecologist, University Hospitals Dorset, Poole; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography

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Mr Tim Hillard

DM FFSRH FRCOG

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 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 now Clinical Lead for Patient Safety.
Patient Groups: Patron of The Daisy Network and Medical advisor to Women’s Health Concern

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Co-chair: Professor Annice Mukherjee

Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist , Salford Royal NHS Trust; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography

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Professor Annice Mukherjee

Dr Annice Mukherjee is a Consultant Endocrinologist and Author. Annice has special interests in reproductive endocrinology and menopause, thyroid disease, pituitary disease, calcium and bone disorders, late effects of cancer treatment and medical weight management.
Annice has held elected national positions on the programme and clinical committees for the Society for Endocrinology. She contributes to the Society’s reproductive endocrine network, their patient website “You and Your Hormones” and their magazine “The Endocrinologist.” She is a past treasurer of the North West Endocrine Society.

Annice is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and member of the British Thyroid Association and British Menopause Society. Annice was awarded an MSc from King’s College London in 1998 and MD from the University of Manchester in 2008. She has published original articles and reviews extensively in high impact peer reviewed journals including JCE&M and Endocrine Reviews. Annice provides peer review for several specialist endocrine journals.

Annice supports the Trekstock young cancer support charity, works closely with the charity Prevent Breast Cancer and Greater Manchester Cancer network, to improve awareness and information about safe menopause management in breast cancer survivors.

Annice published “The Complete Guide to the Menopause” with Penguin Random House publisher in 2021.

She worked as a Consultant at Salford Royal Hospital Trust until 2019, having worked in the NHS for 27 years.

She currently practices at Spire Manchester, Orth Team centre and HCA Wilmslow Hospitals as well as her not for profit work.

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Co-chair: Dr Clare Spencer

GP Partner and Menopause specialist, The Meanwood Group Practice, Leeds; Co-founder and clinical director My Menopause Centre, Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography

Professor Anne MacGregor

Professor Ruth Dobson

Professor of Neurology, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University, London Biography

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Professor Ruth Dobson

Professor Ruth Dobson is based at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, QMUL, and is Centre Lead for the Centre of Preventive Neurology. Her research has a focus on the roles of ethnicity, deprivation, gender and wider social determinants of health in MS, and she is particularly interested in ensuring that all people with MS are represented in research. She led the publication of UK guidelines on pregnancy in MS, and leads the UK MS pregnancy register.

She was identified by the Royal College of Physicians as an Emerging Women Leader, and recently won the individual MS Brain Health award for her work in pregnancy and MS. Current research projects are supported by the NMSS, MS Society, Horne Family Foundation, Barts Charity, BMA Foundation, MRC and NIHR. She has over 120 peer reviewed publications. She is currently Deputy EDI lead within QMUL Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and Strategic Lead for Dementia at UCL Partners. She sits on both the NHS England Neurology clinical reference group and the Association of British Neurologists neuroinflammation advisory group.

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Co-chair: Mr Tim Hillard

Co-chair: Mr Paul Simpson

Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Hospital; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography

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Mr Paul Simpson

Mr Paul Simpson is an Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. He is the Clinical Lead for the Menopause Service as well as having specialist interests in endometriosis & minimal access surgery. He was awarded his Medical Doctorate (MD) from the University of East Anglia at UEA and continues to take an active interest in research; recruiting for NIHR Portfolio studies and as associate editor for Post Reproductive Health.

He has been a member of the British Menopause Society since 2014 and is currently a member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council.

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Dr Kristyn Manley

Consultant Gynaecologist Biography

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Dr Kristyn Manley

Dr Kristyn Manley is a Consultant Gynaecologist who established, and leads, an NHS Complex and Oncology Menopause Service in Bristol. Her specialist interests, in addition to menopause care, include vulval disorders and promoting awareness of the psychosexual influences in women’s health care. She obtained a PhD which identified biomarkers that improve the accuracy of HPV cervical screening. She is involved in developing national menopause guidelines, British Menopause Society teaching seminars and is part of a regional Women’s Health hub steering committee.

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Dr Clare Spencer

Co-chair: Professor Melanie Davies

Consultant Gynaecologist, University College London Hospitals, Professor of Reproductive Medicine, University College London; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography

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Professor 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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Co-chair: Mr Haitham Hamoda

Professor Peter Collins

Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital, London Biography

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Professor Peter Collins

Peter Collins is Professor of Clinical Cardiology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the American College of Cardiology and the European Society of Cardiology as well as a member of the British Cardiac Society and the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland.

He is and has been a member and board member of several renowned societies and committees such as the International Menopause Society, British Menopause Society and European Society of Cardiology. He is currently the Chairman of the Task Force on Gender of the European Society of Cardiology.

His principal clinical interests are in cardiovascular disease, and in particular coronary heart disease, intractable angina, valvar disease, hypertension, cardiovascular disease in women, hyperlipidaemia and the effect of a variety of hormones on the cardiovascular system including estrogens, progestogens, androgens, SERMS and phytoestrogens. He has published extensively in these areas and has investigated coronary flow mechanisms in the human coronary arterial system. He has been instrumental in establishing (in 1993) and running the weekly ‘Women’s Heart Clinic’ with Dr John Stevenson at the Royal Brompton Hospital, one of the first of its kind in the UK.

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Professor John Stevenson

Emeritus Reader in Metabolic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London; Trustee – British Menopause Society Biography

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Professor John Stevenson

Professor John Stevenson is Emeritus Reader in Metabolic Medicine in the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Visiting Professor at the Belgrade School of Medicine, and Consultant Physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, where he jointly runs the UK’s first female heart disease clinic. His research has included studies of metabolic risk factors for coronary heart disease and the effects of sex hormone deficiency and replacement, and metabolic bone diseases, particularly the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. He lectures extensively throughout the world, and has over 450 publications in journals and books, including 12 textbooks. He is Chairman of the charity Women’s Health Concern, Trustee of the British Menopause Society, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, Foundation Member of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (UK) and Executive Committee Member of the International Society of Gynaecological Endocrinology. He is a past Chairman of the British Menopause Society, past Executive Committee Member of the International Menopause Society and of the European Menopause and Andropause Society, past Non-US Section Head, Cardiovascular diseases in women (reproductive & post-reproductive age), Women’s Health Faculty, Faculty of 1000 Medicine, and past Editor of Maturitas.

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Co-chair: Dr Olivia Hum

Co-chair: Professor Anne MacGregor

Dr Katie Barber

Professor Nick Panay

Mr Paul Simpson

Dr Zoe Schaedel

Dr Olivia Hum

Professor Anne MacGregor