BMS 28th Annual Conference programme – Day 2

Chair / Speaker

• Heather Currie
• Elaine Stephens, Senior Specialist Nurse, Menopause Service, Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Biography
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  Elaine Stephens

  Menopause Clinical Nurse Specialist Elaine trained at St Bartholomews Hospital London and qualified in 1982. She has worked within the menopause field since 1986 . She is the senior Menopause Clinical Nurse Specialist within the menopause service at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital.She is involved in running three consultant Led Menopause clinics per week and also runs a Nurse led implant clinic. Elaine is Member of the British Menopause Society and has served as Council member; she is also involved in running the West Midlands Menopause Society.She has been involved in education locally and nationally for over 20 years on all aspects of menopause health including teaching currently on the Menopause Special Skills Module course run by the BMS.She has a particular interest in premature ovarian insufficiency and young cancer survivors.

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• Annie Hawkins, Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, Member – 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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• Lynne Robinson Biography
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  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 specialty 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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• Claire Bellone, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
• Jane Wilkinson, General Practitioner, Neston Medical Centre, GP Champion for Chlamydia & Sexual Health, GP Lead for Maternity, Western Cheshire, Member – 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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• Debra Holloway, Nurse Consultant in Gynaecology at Guys and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
• Kathy Abernethy
• Pratima Gupta, Consultant Obstetrician& Gynaecologist and Clinical Director for Gynaecology, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Member – BMS medical advisory council. Biography
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  Dr Pratima Gupta

  Dr Pratima Gupta is a consultant Obstetrics and gynaecology at University Hospitals of Birmingham and service lead for gynaecology.She has a special interest in menopause management, early pregnancy problems and ambulatory gynaecology.

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• Jane Davis Biography
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  Jane Davis

  Dr. Jane Davis, MBChB, MRCGP, trained as a GP in Cornwall, where she has practised for the last 15 years. She is a BMS Menopause Specialist. Her major interests are focused on women’s healthcare, contraception and medical education. Additionally, she works as a Speciality Doctor in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare and Clinical Skills Tutor at Plymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry. She served on the Specialist Committee for the Menopause Quality Standard, published by NICE, February 2017.

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• Jo Marsden, Consultant Breast Surgeon, King’s College Hospital, London, Member – BMS medical advisory council. Biography
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  Jo Marsden

  Jo Marsden is a consultant breast surgeon at King’s College Hospital London. Her postgraduate thesis concerned the use of HRT in women after a diagnosis of breast cancer and she was a principal investigator of the UK randomised trial of HRT in breast cancer patients and stimulated her ongoing interest in the clinical care of symptomatic breast cancer patients and improving patient experience. She has developed survivorship programmes incorporating gynae-endocrine, psychological and cancer-related fatigue management and support and established a day case breast cancer surgery pathway at King’s College Hospital, which is now recommended as best practice in the UK. She is a member of the British Menopause Society medical advisory committee, on the Editorial Board of the International Menopause Society, Publications Editor and council member of the British Association of Day Surgery and Member of Capita Healthcare Knowledge Systems Advisory Board.

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• Nick Panay
• Tim Hillard
• John Stevenson
• Joan Pitkin
• Keith Spowart, Consultant Gynaecologist, Glasgow, Member – BMS medical advisory council Biography
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  Keith Spowart

  Consultant Gynaecologist, Glasgow, Member – BMS medical advisory council

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

  Consultant Gynaecologist, University College London Hospitals and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University College London
  Clinical Director, Women’s Health guideline programme, National Guideline AllianceMember 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)

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• Mary Ann Lumsden
• Mike Savvas
• Haitham Hamoda

Chair: Dr Heather Currie

Professor Peyman Hadji

Professor of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Endocrinology at Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany, Head of the Department of Bone Oncology, Endocrinology and Reproductive at the Krankenhaus Nordwest, Germany Frankfurt. Biography

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Professor Peyman Hadji

Head of Department of Bone Oncology, Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Franfurt, Germany
Philipps-University of Marburg

Prof. Peyman Hadji obtained his medical degree from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, in 1990, and went on to complete his postgraduate training in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Hamburg Institute of Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine and the Philipps-University of Marburg, where he received his PD in 2001. In June 2006, he was appointed as a full Professor of Medicine at the Philipps-University of Marburg. Since July 2014, Dr. Hadji is the head of the department of bone oncology, endocrinology and reproductive medicine at the Krankenhaus Nordwest in Frankfurt, Germany

His current research interest is on the management of women with breast cancer, with a special focus on cancer induced bone loss (CIBL), as well as studies on side-effect management in cancer therapies and outcome research. He is the first author of a recent practical guidance for the management of aromatase inhibitor-associated bone loss of seven international societies. Dr. Hadji is also a co-author of the ESMO practice guidelines on bone health in cancer patients. He is additonally a co-author of the guidance on the use of bisphosphonates in solid tumours, a consensus recommendation from the second Cambridge conference on advancing treatment for metastatic bone cancer and a clinical experience and treatment recommendation on aromatase inhibitor-induced arthralgia. In addition to this, Dr. Hadji has performed a number of studies on compliance and persistence in oncology and osteoporotic therapies, and is involved in several clinical studies on different pharmacological interventions for osteoporosis including bisphosphonates, denosumab, parathyroid hormones, raloxifene, hormone therapy and tamoxifen – in collaboration with a number of national and international centres.

Dr. Hadji is a co-author of the ESMO clinical practice guideline for bone health in cancer patients, the German S-III guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer (DGGG), the German S-III guidelines for ONJ (DGMK) , the German Osteoporosis guidelines (DVO), use of HRT in postmenopausal women (DGGG) as well the German guidelines on hormonal contraception (DGGG).

Currently, Dr. Hadji is the vice president of the Dachverband Osteologie (DVO) and a board member of the Cancer and Bone Society as well as the German Menopause Society. He is additionally an active member of several oncology and osteoporosis societies with a special interest in diagnosis and treatment of bone oncology in women with breast cancer. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in these fields. His editorial activities extend to co-editor in chief of the journal of bone oncology and refereeing for a number of national and international journals.

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Mr Michael Dooley

Consultant Gynaecologist, Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester. Medical Director, The Poundbury Clinic. Biography

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Michael Dooley

Michael Dooley is a Consultant Gynaecologist and a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Michael has always been interested in a holistic and integrated team approach to patient care and he employs this strategy to maximise care for all his patients.

He is co-author of “Your Change, Your Choice” an integrated approach to the menopause, published by Hodder Mobius.

Michael helps to run an integrated menopause educational course at Dumfries House, Scotland (www.dumfries-house.org.uk), which not only addresses HRT but also lifestyle to include diet, exercise, yoga and stress management. He has travelled extensively investigating the role of lifestyle including recent visits to India, China and has a planned trip to Bhutan before the Conference. He is one of the few recognised sports gynaecologists in the country and has attended 3 Olympic Games as a Doctor. With this background he is passionate about the benefits of exercise and health.

Michael has established the Poundbury Clinic, in Dorset and London, as centres of excellence providing an integrated approach to Women’s health.

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Dr Louise Newson, GPwSI Menopause, Spire Parkway Hospital, W Midlands.

Professor Andrea Genazzani

Director, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pisa, Italy. President of the International Society of Gynaecological Endocrinology (ISGE). Biography

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Andrea Riccardo Genazzani, MD, PhD, HcD, FRCOG

Born in Florence in 1942, he attained his M.D. from Siena University in 1966 cum laude.

He completed his residences in Gynecology and Obstetrics, and in Endocrinology and Metabolism Disorders.

– In 1972, he received the PhD in Clinical Biochemistry at Lausanne University.
– Since 1969 Assistant at the University of Siena.
– From 1972 he relocated to the Division of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the University in Cagliari and from 1973 he was nominated Senior Assistant.
– From 1977 he relocated to the University of Siena as Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
– In 1980 he was awarded as Full Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and nominated Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Cagliari.
– From 1° November 1982 he was nominated Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Modena
– since 1994 up to 15/02/2012 he become Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Pisa.
– In 1994 he was awarded with the Honoris Causa Laurea by the University of Wroclaw in Poland,
– In 1994 he was awarded with the Honoris Causa Laurea by the University of Wroclaw in Poland,
– in 2005 by the University “Ovidius” of Constanta in Romania,
– in May 2007 by the University of Bucharest in Romania and
– in February 2009 by the University of Athens in Greece
– in October 21st 2011 he was entitled Professor Emeritus of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russian Federation

Prof. Genazzani is:
– President of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology (ISGE)
– President of the European Society of Gynecology (ESG)
– General Secretary of the International Academy of Human Reproduction (IAHR)
– Fellow ad eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
– Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
– Honorary Member of several National Societies of Gynecology , Obstetrics and Endocrinology
– Editor-in-Chief of Gynecological Endocrinology since 1987
– Author of more than 830 papers in peer reviewed journals and Editor more than 45 books

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Chair: Dr John Stevenson

Consultant Metabolic Physician and Reader, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London. Chairman, Women’s Health Concern. Trustee, the British Menopause Society. Biography

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Dr John C Stevenson, MB BS, FRCP, FESC, MFSEM

Dr John Stevenson is Reader in Metabolic Medicine in the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, 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 420 publications in journals and books, including 11 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), Executive Committee Member of the European Menopause and Andropause Society, and Executive Committee Member of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology. He is a past Chairman of the British Menopause Society, past Executive Committee Member of the International Menopause Society, and past Editor of Maturitas.

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Chair: Miss Joan Pitkin

Mr Arvind Vashisht

Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Clinical Lead for Obstetric Services, University College Hospital. Biography

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Mr Arvind Vashisht

Clinical Lead for Gynaecology at University College Hospital London.

MD thesis in Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy.

Specialist in Minimal Access Surgery. Subspecialist in Urogynaecology.

Council Member for the British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy and Committee member for the British Society of Urogynaecology.

Research interests in endometriosis and pelvic floor disorders.

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Dr Fiona Lewis

Consultant Dermatologist, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Trust, London and Frimley Health NHS Trust, Wexham Park. Biography

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Fiona M Lewis MB BCh, MD FRCP

Consultant Dermatologist, St John’s Institute of Dermatology and Frimley Health, Wexham Park NHS Trust.

Fiona Lewis trained in Dermatology at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield and completed her MD thesis on clinical and immunological aspects of lichen sclerosus there. She was then appointed Consultant Dermatologist at Worcestershire Royal Hospital in 1996 and in 2007, moved to Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital and started working in the Vulval Clinics at St John’s Institute of Dermatology. She now runs the Vulval Clinic service at St John’s which is a busy tertiary service for complex vulval conditions. With colleagues, she has established the St John’s annual course on Ano-genital and Oral Dermatology.

She teaches on all aspects of vulval disease at a local, national and international level. She is co-author of A Practical textbook of Vulval Disease written for trainees and is co-editor of the textbook ‘Ridley’s The Vulva’. She is chair of the Guideline Development Group for the 2018 British Association of Dermatologists Guidelines on the management of lichen sclerosus and has been involved in writing guidelines for other aspects of vulval disease. She has been chair of the Patient Education Committee for the International Society for the Study of Vulval Disease and was secretary of the European College for the Study of Vulval Disease until 2016.

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Mr Nick Panay

Mr Mike Savvas and Mr Haitham Hamoda