BMS 27th Annual Conference programme – Day 2

Chair / Speaker

Chair: Mr Tim Hillard

Mr Nick Panay

Prof. Alessandra Graziottin

Director of Centre of Gynaecology and Medical Sexology at H. San Raffaele Resnati and President and Founder of Foundation for the Cure and Care of Pain in Women, Milan, Italy

Chair: Mr Mike Savvas

Consultant Gynaecologist, King’s College Hospital, London
Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council

Biography

Professor Gerard Conway

Consultant Endocrinologist, Clinical Lead in Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College Hospital

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Professor Gerard Conway

Gerard Conway is a Reproductive Endocrinologist based in the Reproductive Medicine Unit of University College London Hospitals. His clinical research spans the breadth of reproductive endocrinology focusing on reproductive development and its genetic anomalies and more recently on reproductive outcomes in rare endocrine conditions. Dedicated clinics for Ovarian Insufficiency, PCOS, Turner Syndrome and Disorders of Sex Development have driven the programme of investigation over the past 20 years.

The clinics at UCLH for women with ovarian insufficiency form one of the biggest specialist services in the world with a team comprising endocrinology, gynecology, nurse specialists and clinical psychology.  In addition, Prof Conway maintains a clinical research program with visiting international research fellows.  Recent research output relating to POI includes the identification of new genetic causes for the condition.

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Professor Richard Farmer

University of Surrey (Emeritus)

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Professor Richard Farmer

Richard Farmer is emeritus professor of epidemiology of the University of Surrey. Prior to his appointment at the University of Surrey he held the Chair in Public Health Medicine at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School (University of London). For many years his main interest has been in the investigation of the long term safety of medicines. He has published papers on oral contraceptives and on HRT.

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Mr Nick Panay

Consultant Gynaecologist, Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
Trustee and Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council, International Menopause Society Board Member and former Editor-in Chief Climacteric, the journal of the IMS.

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Mr Nick Panay

Nick Panay is a Consultant Gynaecologist with a Special Interest in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, Menopause, PMS, contraception and gynaecological endocrinology.

As director of the West London Menopause & PMS Centre at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals, he heads 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 Premature Menopause, PMS, Female Sexual Dysfunction, New HRT and Contraceptive regimens and Complementary Therapies.

He is on the editorial board of Climacteric (The Journal of the International Menopause Society) and is on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Healthcare.

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

Past Chairman of The British Menopause Society,
Honorary Director of Conferences RCOG,
Chairman of The National Association for Premenstrual Syndrome,
Patron of Daisy Network (Premature Menopause Society),
Past Council Member of British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy and
Past President, The Royal Society of Medicine (O & G Division)

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Chair: Mr Tim Hillard

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Mr Tim Hillard

Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Poole. Trustee and Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council

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Professor Bart Fauser

Professor of Reproductive Medicine, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Professor Bart Fauser

Professor of Reproductive Medicine, Gynecologist. University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Fulbright post-doctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego (1987-1988); Visiting Professor, Stanford School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA (1993-1995); Saal van Zwanenberg Professor, Center of Free University, Brussels, Belgium (2003-2008); Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology and director Center of Reproductive Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1996-2003), Visiting Professor University of Siena, Italy (2011), University Southampton, UK (2010-), University of Adelaide, Australia (2014-), Senior lecturer at the London Women’s Clinic (2015-), Honorary fellow Royal College Obstetrics & Gynecology (RCOG 2015 -)

Former Editor-in-Chief ‘Human Reproduction Update’ (2001-2007), and editor of RBM Online (2015-). Major research interest; pathophysiology of human ovarian function. Around 365 PubMed publications, Hirsch factor 72. Prof. Fauser has served on many international editorial boards, has been active in many international societies, referee for all major journals. His work has been widely

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Chair: Mr Haitham Hamoda

Consultant Gynaecologist, Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, King’s College Hospital, London
Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council

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Mr Haitham Hamoda

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Professor Peter Collins

Professor of Clinical Cardiology, Royal Brompton Hospital and National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London

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Professor Peter Collins

MA, MD, FRCP, FESC, FACC

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 Giuseppe Rosano

Professor of Cardiology, (Hon), Consultant Cardiologist, St George’s Hospital, London, Professor of Pharmacology,
University of Catanzaro, Italy

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Professor Giuseppe Rosano

Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology (Hons)
St George’s Hospitals NHS Trust University of London

Professor of Pharmacology and Scientific Director of Nutramed Program
IRCCS San Raffaele Rome/University of Catanzaro, Italy

After obtaining his MD in Medicine and Surgery at the La Sapienza University of Rome with full honors in 1988, Giuseppe Rosano obtained his specialization in Cardiology in 1992, before attaining his MSc and his PhD in Medical Sciences from the Imperial College in London.

Professor Rosano’s areas of scientific interest include experimental and clinical pharmacology, heart failure, cardiac metabolism, gender difference in cardiovascular disease and the cardiovascular effect of sex hormones. He has authored over 380 peer-reviewed articles, 3 books and 28 book chapters.

He is currently Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology (Hons) at the St George’s University Medical School in London and Professor of Pharmacology and Scientific Director of the Nutramed program at the IRCCS San Raffaele and at the University of Catanzaro, Italy.

He currently serves as an expert in the area of Cardiovascular Medicine for the European Assessment Office of the Italian Drug Agency (AIFA). He is a core member of the Cardiovascular Working Party of the European Medicines Agency.

He is board member of the Heart Failure Association (HFA), Chairman of the Education Committee of the HFA and Chairman of the study Group on Diabetes and Hypertension of the HFA.

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Professor Stefano Salvatore

Urogynaecologist, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy

Dr Pratima Gupta/Mr Mike Savvas
& Dr Keith JM Spowart/Miss Lynne Robinson

Dr Pratima Gupta

Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecology and Clinical Director for Gynaecology, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust.
Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council Biography

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Dr Pratima Gupta

Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecology and Clinical Director for Gynaecology at the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. Member of the BMS Advisory Council

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Dr Keith JM Spowart

Consultant Gynaecologist and Honorary, Senior Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow
Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council

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Dr Keith JM Spowart

BSc, MBChB, FRCOG

Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board, Glasgow ( 2004 to date)

Previously Consultant Obstetrician Gynaecologist, Lanarkshire Health Board. ( 1995 -2004).

Research Registrar Menopause Clinic, Western Infirmary Stobhill Hospital , Glasgow Dr David McKay Hart.

Interests
Endometrial protection,
Mechanisms of Cardiovascular protective effect of HRT including impact on markers of Thrombosis and Haemostasis,
Novel HRT regimes and non – hormonal management of Menopausal symptoms,
Premature Ovarian Insufficiency

Prior to entering Medical School at University of Glasgow, graduated BSc (Hons) in Pharmacology from University of Edinburgh

BMS Member since early 1990s

Regular attendee at National Meetings

Presented at National and International Meetings

Chaired Sessions at National and International Meetings

Established dedicated Menopause Clinic in Lanarkshire before returning to Glasgow to the Western Infirmary Menopause Clinic

Current Chair Scottish Menopause Interest Group

Member BMS MAC from 2016

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Miss Lynne Robinson

Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Lead of Menopause and Reproductive Endocrinology Services, Birmingham Women’s Hospital Biography

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Miss Lynne Robinson

Lynne currently works as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Lynne graduated from Edinburgh University and completed a MD in basic sciences related to Reproductive Medicine. She completed sub speciality training in Reproductive Medicine in Birmingham and now leads the Menopause and Reproductive Endocrine services at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Lynne is also a member of the fertility team and works in the IVF unit in addition to having a special interest in tubal and fibroid surgery. She has published widely and continues her academic work alongside her teaching and service development commitments.

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Dr Heather Currie/Dr Sarah Gray & Kathy Abernethy/Dr JF Wilkinson

Dr Heather Currie

Associate Specialist Gynaecologist & Obstetrician Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary, Dumfries, Chairman of BMS
Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council Biography

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Dr Heather Currie

Dr Heather Currie, Associate Specialist Gynaecologist at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, Scotland, specialising in Menopause, Pre Menstrual syndrome and Sub-fertility. Co-Editor of Post reproductive Health, the Journal of the British Menopause Society (BMS), Chairman of the BMS. Founder and Managing Director of Menopause Matters Ltd which runs the award winning website www.menopausematters.co.uk, along with www.bladdermatters.co.uk, and publishes the award winning Menopause Matters magazine. Author of the award winning book, Menopause, answers at your fingertips, e-book Menopause Essentials, and of many original papers and review articles in scientific journals.

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Dr Sarah Gray

GP Specialist in Women’s Health, Primary Care Lead for Sexual Health & Contraception, Cornwall Biography

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Dr Sarah Gray

Sarah Gray is a GP in Cornwall with specialist expertise in Women’s Health. She ran an NHS menopause referral service for 16 years providing secondary and tertiary level advice. This was decommissioned to save costs and she continues in the private sector. She was a member of BMS Council for 10 years and one of the original group who developed NICE guidance and quality standards for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. She provides clinical leadership for Cornwall Council and performance assessment for the GMC. Sarah is passionate about improving women’s health from the primary care setting and contributed the menopause chapter to the recent Cambridge University Press textbook “Women’s Health in Primary Care”.

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Kathy Abernethy

Chairman Elect, British Menopause Society, Senior Nurse Specialist, Associate Director, Northwick Park Hospital Menopause Clinic, London
Trustee and Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council Biography

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Kathy Abernethy

Chairman Elect, British Menopause Society; Senior Nurse Specialist; Associate Director, Northwick Park Hospital Menopause Clinic, London; Trustee and Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council

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Dr Jane F Wilkinson

GP, Neston Medical Centre, GP Champion for Chlamydia & Sexual Health, GP Lead for Maternity, Western Cheshire. Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council Biography

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Dr Jane Wilkinson

An NHS GP for 18 years, Dr Wilkinson has developed a special interest in women’s health, contraception & sexual health. She enjoys talking to women about their health & wellbeing around the menopause and finds working with women at this key time in their lives most rewarding.

She has worked within a variety of clinical settings including general practice, community-based clinics, with young people providing contraception and sexual health advice and as a specialty doctor for the Integrated Contraception & Sexual Health clinic.

She holds non-clinical roles as GP Champion for Sexual Health for Cheshire West & Chester Local Authority and is GP Clinical Lead for Maternity for West Cheshire CCG.

Dr Wilkinson is a member of the British Menopause Society and was elected to its Medical Advisory Council in 2015. She is also a member of the International Menopause Society. She achieved both the Basic and Advanced Certificates in Menopause Care in March 2015, qualifying her to take formal referrals, and she is a Diplomat of the Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare.

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Mrs Elaine Stephens/Dr Kulsum Jaffer
& Ms Annie Hawkins/Mr Tony Parsons

Mrs Elaine Stephens

Menopause Specialist Nurse, Birmingham Women’s Hospital; Administrator, West Midlands Menopause Society Biography

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Mrs Elaine Stephens

Senior Specialist Nurse, Menopause Service, Birmingham Women’s Hospital

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Dr Kulsum Jaffer

Consultant Gynaecologist, Lead Consultant in Reproductive & Sexual Health, Birmingham Biography

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Dr Kulsum Jaffer

Consultant in the Reproductive and Sexual Health Service at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Honorary Consultant at Birmingham Heartlands and Women’s Hospitals.

Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Birmingham University.

Contraceptive Lead for the Umbrella Service which is an integrated pan Birmingham Sexual Health service.

Training Programme Director for the CSRH training programme in the West Midlands

Special interests  – complex sub-dermal implant removals and psychosexual counselling.

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Ms Annie Hawkins

Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council Biography

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Ms Annie Hawkins BSc MRCOG MIPM DFSRH

Ms Hawkins is currently a NHS Consultant at Portsmouth Hospital in Hampshire. She has worked in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for the last 20 years and with Mr Panay since 1997. She is a Londoner by birth and trained as a Chemist and then a Doctor at the University of London. Her post-graduate training was across North West Thames, based at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
She has a special interest in female reproductive hormones, including the treatment of Pre-menstrual Syndrome, Premature Ovarian Failure and Peri-menopause. She is also trained in the management of sub-fertility.
She is a Member of the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine and has an interest in Psychological issues in Gynaecology and Obstetrics.
She also has training in Forensic Gynaecology, Early Pregnancy and Emergency Gynaecology care.
She speaks Nationally and Internationally on her areas of special interest and has been on the executive committee of three women’s health charities. She is passionate about improving care for women.
She combines a caring, listening, supportive approach with a sound medical knowledge to provide holistic care for her patients.

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Miss Joan Pitkin/Dr Jane Woyka
& Mr Nick Panay/Dr Julie Ayres

Joint Chair: Miss Joan Pitkin

Consultant Gynaecologist, Associate Medical Director & Director of R&D LNWH-TR Reader and Head of Year 5 Imperial College
Trustee of the British Menopause Society Biography

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Miss Joan Pitkin

Joan Pitkin has been a Consultant Gynaecologist at the London North West Healthcare NHS Trust for 25 years and has a particular interest in Urogynaecology & Menopause.

Joan served for 6 years on the Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists and was President of the British Menopause Society, notching up 15 years either on the Medical Advisory Council or the Board of Trustees.

She was Clinical Director of Women Services 1997-1999; Director of Clinical Studies Oct 2007-Jan 2015;
Director of R&D Feb 2009-June 2016; Associate Medical Director for the Academic Director Feb 2009 – June 2016; and has just stepped down after 4 years as head of Year 5, at Imperial College Medical School.

Joan was made a Reader at Imperial College in 2012 and continues as Director of the Menopause Research and Clinical Unit at Northwick Park Hospital.

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Dr Jane Woyka

General Practitioner, Harrow Health Care Centre, Harrow, Associate GP Specialist, Menopause Clinical & Research Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow.
Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council Biography

Dr Julie Ayres

Specialty Doctor in Gynaecology, Menopause & PMS Clinics, St James’ Hospital, Leeds, Communications Officer, Yorkshire Menopause Society Biography

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Dr Julie Ayres

Julie Ayres MB ChB DFFP DFSRH is a Specialty Doctor at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) where she has been working since 1993, after GP training, and leads the Menopause and PMS Specialist Services. She has been a member of the BMS for many years and has served as a previous Council Member. Julie has been a key figure in the Yorkshire Menopause Group which organises postgraduate education in Women’s health and Menopause Management and has led on local guideline development in menopause and PMS as well as lecturing widely and acting as local media spokesperson. She is actively involved in training and education through the BMS and LTHT.

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Chair: Mr Tony Parsons

Professor David M Reid

Consultant Rheumatologist and Osteoporosis Specialist, London and Aberdeen

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Professor David M Reid

Professor David Reid is Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Aberdeen.

He is a consultant rheumatologist and has been involved in providing specialist osteoporosis services with a particular emphasis on bone densitometry for 30 years. He is now practicing in the Private Sector in London and Aberdeen,

He has over 300 original papers and reviews, largely on his research interests which include the utility of bone mass measurements,assessment of risk of fracture, secondary osteoporosis, and glucocorticoid osteoporosis.

He is a Volunteer Ambassador and Patron of the Royal Osteoporosis Society and the immediate past Chair of the Board of Trustees from 2008-2012. He is a member of the National Osteoporosis Guideline Group who will publish updated Clinical guideline for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis in 2017. He is currently chairing a Working Group of the Royal Osteoporosis Society developing Quality Standards for Osteoporosis and Fracture Prevention services for the UK.

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Dr Terry Aspray

Consultant Physician, The Bone Clinic, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne; Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University

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Dr Terry Aspray

MB BS MD FRCP

Terry is a Consultant Metabolic Bone Physician and lead clinician at the Bone Clinic, Newcastle upon Tyne. His clinical background is in Medicine and Nutrition. Having originally completed his doctoral studies at the MRC Dunn Nutrition Unit on bone health and nutrition in West Africa, he trained in General and Geriatric Medicine, but now focuses entirely on metabolic bone disease.

He is Clinical Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University where he leads the Masters in Ageing and Health Programme. He has been a member of NICE Guideline Development Committees on Fracture Risk Assessment and The Menopause and was co-author of the Royal Osteoporosis Society’s Vitamin D and bone health: Practical clinical guideline. He is Chief Investigator for the VDOP study, evaluating the impact of monthly vitamin D dosing on the over 70s, which is soon to report its results.

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