Programme: Day 1 – Thursday 26 June
Session
Chair / Speaker
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
Dr Katie Barber – Joint Chair, Programme planning group
Clinical Lead Community Gynaecology, Oxfordshire; Founder and Clinical Director, Oxford Menopause Ltd; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography
Dr Katie Barber
GP with a special interest in Gynaecology and MenopauseMember – BMS medical advisory council
Clinical Lead Community Gynaecology, Oxfordshire
Founder and Clinical Director, Oxford Menopause Ltd
Dr Katie Barber qualified from the University of Oxford in 2002 and has worked as a GP in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire for more than 15 years. Katie worked as a GP specialist in the Gynaecology and Menopause departments at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford before leading the NHS Specialist Menopause Service until 2021. Katie became Clinical Lead for the Community Gynaecology Service (NHS) in Oxfordshire where she successfully incorporated menopause services to enable women to have timely access to menopause specialist advice and expertise.
She was awarded the Advanced Certificate of Menopause Care by the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare in 2019 and is an Accredited British Menopause Society specialist and PPMC trainer based in Oxfordshire. Alongside her NHS roles, Katie teaches and lectures in the NHS, public and private sector, and undertakes private menopause and women’s health clinics at Oxford Menopause, a private menopause and women’s health service which Katie founded in 2020, providing individualised, evidence-based advice, care and treatment for all aspect of women’s health and menopause.
Professor Nick Panay – Joint Chair, Programme planning group
Consultant Gynaecologist, Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London; Professor of Practice, Imperial College London; Past President – International Menopause Society; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography
Professor Nick Panay
Present position
Consultant Gynecologist, Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London
Professor of Practice, Imperial College London
Guest Professor, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University.
Summary CV
As director of the Menopause & PMS Centres at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, Nick leads a busy clinical and research team which publishes widely, presents at scientific meetings and trains health professionals at all levels.
He set up his Gynaecological Endocrinology (Gynae Endo) Research Unit within the Women’s Health Research Centre of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He and his team of research fellows and research nurses run an active research programme consisting of translational, clinical and pharmaceutically sponsored research in menopause, premature ovarian insufficiency (POI), premenstrual syndrome, androgens and contraception.
Nick has authored more than >200 peer reviewed publications with more than 10000 citations to date and has a Google Scholar h index of 49. He has presented at numerous national and international conferences, as an invited keynote and plenary speaker.
Through his work with several societies, councils and women’s groups he campaigns actively for women’s health issues both nationally and internationally. His affiliations include:
Past President, International Menopause Society,
Past Chairman of The British Menopause Society (BMS),
BMS medical advisory council member
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 and Past Council Member, RCOG,
Past President and Current Council Member, Royal Society of Medicine (O & G Division).
SESSION 1 – HOT OFF THE PRESS
Professor Janice Rymer
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, King’s College School of Medicine, London; Consultant Gynaecologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation, London; Chair and Trustee – British Menopause Society Biography
Professor Janice Rymer
Professor Rymer qualified with MBCHB in 1981 from the University of Auckland and commenced her specialist training in New Zealand. She moved to the UK in 1987 and became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) in 1987 and fellow of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) in 1990. She was awarded her MD thesis from the University of Auckland in 1994 and was made fellow of the RCOG in 2005. She was made Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at KCL in 2005 and Dean of Undergraduate Medicine in 2010 – 2013. In 2016 she became Vice President of the RCOG (Education) until 2019. She was National Specialty Advisor for Gynaecology for NHSE/I from 2020-2023. She is Chair of the British Menopause Society.Her current appointments are Professor of O and G, and Dean of Student Affairs at KCL, Consultant Gynaecologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals Foundation Trust.
Her areas of special interest are Minimal Access Surgery, Ovarian Failure, Medical Education and Female Genital Mutilation. She has published over 150 peer review papers and 18 textbooks.
Other extramural positions include: Member of the RCOG Council 1997-2003 and 2010-2016; Member of the British Menopause Society Council 1986-2002 and 2010-16; she is currently on the General Medical Council team for assessing new Medical Schools.
SESSION 2 – BONE HEALTH
Co-chair: Professor Annice Mukherjee
Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography
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.
Co-chair: Dr Kate Panter
Consultant Gynaecologist; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography
Dr Kate Panter
Kate is a Consultant Gynaecologist in South-West London and works in the Menopause Clinic at Guy’s Hospital. She is also a BMS Menopause Specialist and trainer. Having rowed for Cambridge and GB in the 1984 Olympics, Kate is an advisor to the English Institute of Sport and was an accredited doctor for the 2012 London Olympics.Bone Health – Identifying & Assessing Women with Low Bone Density
Professor Alex Comninos
Consultant Endocrinologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust & Imperial College, London Biography
Professor Alex Comninos
Professor Alex Comninos has a broad portfolio encompassing clinical, research and educational roles. As an Endocrinologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, alongside general endocrinology he heads the Imperial Endocrine Bone Unit (EBU) where his clinical interests include reproductive-bone disorders, osteoporosis and calcium disorders. Within the EBU he set-up and runs the nationally-leading Imperial Fracture Liaison Service.His research focuses on reproductive hormones and their influence on behaviour and bones with over 90 publications in bone and reproductive endocrinology (including in the Lancet, Cell, Lancet D&E, JAMA Network Open and Nature Reviews Endocrinology) and supported by grants from the Wellcome Trust, NIHR and MRC. Alex also performed the early discovery studies for the recently approved NK3R antagonists for menopausal hot flushes and is currently investigating several clinical uses for kisspeptin. In addition, Alex authored the bone guidelines for the recent national SfE hypogonadal women guideline.
Alex has presented his work in invited talks internationally and as ‘Visiting Professor’ at Harvard. His work has attracted extensive international media attention including documentaries, live TV and radio interviews. In addition, he has presented on bone health to key government and NHS leaders including the Minister for Health.
Alex is also heavily involved in education. From Head of Academic Tutoring for clinical students at Imperial College School of Medicine through to an extensive portfolio of international postgraduate education activities, an Endocrine Careers evening and his own webinar series.
His contributions to Endocrinology have been recognised internationally by several prizes including The Reproductive Science Prize (ES), The Harbuz Prize (BSN), as well as the Early Career Prize, Clinical Endocrinology Trust Prize, Leadership Development Award and Teacher of the Year Award (SfE). Most recently he was awarded the 2024 RCP-NIHR Research Delivery Researcher Prize which recognises NHS clinicians who integrate research & innovation into their practice.
Professor Alex Comninos: Bone health
Given this considerable burden, optimising the assessment of patients with low bone mineral density (BMD) is crucial. In this talk, we will discuss a comprehensive and structured approach to the identification and assessment of women with low BMD. This will include:
- Identifying risk factors / secondary causes of osteoporosis.
- Understanding and interpreting DEXA (dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) scans and who to scan.
- Accurately calculating and interpreting future fracture risk to inform evidence-based decisions on initiating osteoporosis treatments.
By improving our identification and assessment strategies, we can play a key role in reducing the incidence and impact of osteoporosis-related fractures.
Osteoporosis: Current Therapeutic Options – Where are we now?
Professor David Reid, MBE
Consultant Rheumatologist and Osteoporosis Specialist, 25 Harley Street, London Bridge Hospital; King Edward VII’s & BMI Albyn Hospital, Aberdeen Biography
Professor David Reid
Professor David Reid is Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Aberdeen where he was previously the Head of School of Medicine and Dentistry.
He is a consultant rheumatologist and has been involved in providing specialist osteoporosis services with a particular emphasis on bone densitometry for over 30 years. He has been practicing in the private sector for nearly a decade in London and Aberdeen. In London he practices at 25 Harley Street (Phoenix Hospital Group) where he is the clinical lead for the bone Densitometry (DEXA) service. In London he also has clinics at HCA London Bridge Hospital at the Shard and King Edward VIIs Hospital. In Aberdeen he runs a clinic at the Circle Health Albyn Hospital and also has an active online video consultation base.
He has over 350 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 now Fundraising Ambassador and Senior Medical Advisor to the Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS). He was Chair of the Board of Trustees of the then NOS from 2008-2012. He is a member of the National Osteoporosis Guideline Group who published their latest Clinical Guideline for the prevention and treatment of Osteoporosis in September 2021 which was updated in November 2024.
SESSION 3 – THE BMS ANNUAL LECTURE
Management of Perimenopausal Depression
Co-chair: Professor Mary Ann Lumsden
Honorary Professor of Medical Education and Gynaecology, University of Glasgow; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography
Professor Mary Ann Lumsden
Professor Mary Ann Lumsden became Chief Executive of FIGO in January 2020.She is currently Honorary Professor of Gynaecology and Medical Education, having retired from the University of Glasgow where she was Clinical lead of the Academic Unit of Reproductive and Maternal Medicine (March 2020).
Past positions include Senior Vice President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Immediate Past President of the International Menopause Society and Vice Chair of the Women’s Health Expert Advisory Group to the Medicine and Hormones Regulatory Authority.
She is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Co-chair: Professor Janice Rymer
Dr Claudio Soares
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Queen’s University School of Medicine, Kingston, Ontario, Canada;Clinical Lead, Mental Health & Addictions, Ontario Health East; Director, Centre for Psychedelics Health & Research, Queen’s University and Providence Care Hospital; President, the Menopause Society Biography
Dr Claudio Soares
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Queen’s University School of Medicine Kingston, Ontario, CanadaClinical Lead, Mental Health & Addictions, Ontario Health East
Director, Centre for Psychedelics Health & Research, Queen’s University and Providence Care Hospital
President, the Menopause Society
Dr. Soares is a Full Professor and former Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Queen’s University School of Medicine in Kingston, Ontario – Canada.
He currently serves as Executive Lead for the Canadian Biomarker Integration Network in Depression (CAN-BIND) and Regional Lead for Mental Health and Addictions, Ontario Health East. He is also the current president of the Menopause Society. More recently, Dr. Soares took the role as inaugural Director for the Centre for Psychedelic Heath and Research at Providence Care.
Dr. Soares trained as a psychiatrist, completed his Ph.D. on the neuro-modulatory effects of estrogen for the management of depression in midlife women and pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
His research has focused on the design and implementation of clinical trials in depression, with a primary focus on novel hormonal and non-hormonal options for menopausal women experiencing mood and anxiety disorders, vasomotor symptoms, and sleep problems.
His most recent research has focused on the use of digital health technologies for treatment monitoring and relapse prevention in depression, and the role of psychedelics for the management of psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Soares is a sought-after educator with more than 220 presentations at national and international meetings. He has written extensively in the areas of mood disorders and women’s mental health, with more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in to-tier journals such as including JAMA, Menopause, American Journal of Psychiatry, among others. His body of work has more than 13,000 citations to date, and a h-index of 61.
SESSION 4 – MENOPAUSE AND THE PELVIS
Co-chair: Mr Tim Hillard
Consultant Gynaecologist, University Hospitals Dorset, Poole; Trustee – British Menopause Society Biography
Mr Tim Hillard
DM FFSRH FRCOGGraduated 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
Co-chair: Dr Kristyn Manley
Consultant Gynaecologist, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography
Dr Kristyn Manley
Dr Kristyn Manley is a Consultant Gynaecologist at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. She is an accredited Menopause Specialist and lead for the NHS service in Bristol; she was instrumental in the creation of this service which incorporates an multidisciplinary team menopause oncology and a complex medical clinic. She also has special interests in management of women who are undertaking risk-reducing surgery, vulval disorders and colposcopy (she completed her PhD thesis on improving cervical screening accuracy).Genitourinary syndrome of the menopause
Dr Inge Kreuser-Genis
Consultant Dermatologist, Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust, Oxford Biography
Dr Inge Kreuser-Genis
Inge is a substantive consultant at the Churchill hospital in Oxford, where she runs paediatric dermatology and adult and paediatric vulval dermatology clinics. She is the current Governance lead for Dermatology, and was previously the Vulval lead for the Dermatology department and the Training programme director for Dermatology in the Thames valley region.Inge completed her undergraduate medical degree and junior doctor years in South Africa, where she grew up. Her interest in Paediatric and Vulval Dermatology began whilst working as a Dermatology clinical fellow in Amersham and London.
She built on this during higher specialist training in Glasgow, presenting and publishing on complex dermatological cases (especially vulval and paediatric) at both a national and international level. She helped set up the Glasgow complex vulval disease MDT (which is now Scotland-wide) during her training, and was one of 2 recipients of the inaugural BSSVD trainee fellowship. The latter allowed her to attend multiple subspecialist vulval, sexual health and gynaecology clinics (adult and paediatric) across the UK, as well as gaining valuable international experience with Dr Libby Edwards (a preeminent US vulval dermatologist and author, and past president of the ISSVD).
She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and 2 children, and in her spare time enjoys wild cold water swimming. She is also an amateur painter.
Vulval symptoms – are they always due to vulvovaginal atrophy?
Miss Elaine Palmer
Specialist Consultant Gynaecologist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust, London Biography
Miss Elaine Palmer
Miss Elaine Louise Palmer is a Consultant Gynaecologist at OneWelbeck Women’s Health, specialising in vulval issues, vulval dermatoses, atrophy, HPV/HSIL, vulval pre-cancer, peri-menopause and menopause. Miss Palmer also works at Chelsea and Westminster Trust as their Lead Vulval Gynaecologist and the Lead Gynaecologist for the Ano-genital Neoplasia Service (CANS).SESSION 5 – TOPICS YOU ASKED FOR
Co-chair: Kathy Abernethy
Menopause Specialist Nurse; Director, the menopause course; Trustee – British Menopause Society Biography
Kathy Abernethy
Kathy Abernethy is Director of ‘the menopause course’, an educational programme for nurses and Coombe Menopause Clinic. She was Founding Clinician at Peppy Health, where she helped develop the world’s first ‘direct to clinician’ menopause App. As former Co-Lead of a long-established NHS Menopause service she has extensive clinical experience working with women at and after menopause. As Chair of the Society until July 2019, she contributed to the British Menopause Society handbook on menopause management and is a registered BMS Specialist and Trustee. Her book for women: “Menopause: The One Stop Guide” was Highly Commended in the BMA Book Awards 2019. www.kathyabernethy.com
Co-chair: Dr Zoe Schaedel
GP, Brighton and Hove NHS Community Menopause Clinic; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography
Dr Zoe Schaedel
Dr Schaedel has 16 years’ experience as an NHS GP with expertise in women’s health and sexual health and she is an accredited British Menopause Society Menopause Specialist. She leads the Brighton and Hove Community NHS Menopause and is a co-director of Myla Health.Dr Schaedel is currently a member of the British Menopause Society medical advisory council, the Primary Care Women Health Foundation’s Education Committee and NHS England’s Menopause Improvement Programme Clinical Reference Group.
Dr Schaedel has developed a special interest in sleep and lectures on the International Sleep Medicine Course. She sits on the British Sleep Society Education Committee and co-founded The Good Sleep Clinic. Dr Schaedel has published articles on Menopause in The Lancet and Post Reproductive Health.
Women’s cardiovascular health – a neglected area
Dr Susan Connolly
Consultant Cardiologist, Galway University Hospital and Galway City Hub, Ireland Biography
Dr Susan Connolly
Dr. Connolly is a Consultant Cardiologist at University Hospital Galway in Ireland where she leads the cardiology integrated care service, part of Ireland’s national enhanced community care programme for chronic disease management.From 2006 to 2017 she was a Consultant Cardiologist in Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust where she led the Imperial Cardiovascular Health Programme. In 2017 she moved to the Western Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland where she set up the “Our Hearts Our Minds Programme for Cardiovascular Health”. In October 2022 she received a Healthcare Hero Award from the British Heart Foundation for her role in transforming this programme to a fully virtual one during covid.
She is a past member of the Council for the British Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation and a co-author of its 2012 Core Components and Standards. She was a member of the writing group for the 3rd Joint British Societies Consensus for CVD Prevention in Clinical Practice 2014 as well as a section editor for the preventive cardiology curriculum in Education in Heart.
She is a member of the advisory board of the National Institute of Preventive and Cardiovascular Health (NIPC) and was awarded an NIPC Honorary Fellowship in 2019. In 2023 she established a postgraduate course on an Integrated Approach to the Management of Cardiometabolic and Renal Disease with the NIPC. She also teaches on the NIPC Cardiac Rehabilitation Course for healthcare professionals.
Premature Ovarian Insufficiency – updated guidelines
Professor Nick Panay
Prof Nick Panay: Premature Ovarian Insufficiency: Updated Guidelines
Management of POI is challenging, reflecting the associated multi-morbidity of this condition. Current evidence indicates delayed diagnosis, patient dissatisfaction with care, care variation, consumer and healthcare professional knowledge gaps, and sub-optimal health behaviours which contribute to poorer outcomes1-2.
Development of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) 2024 POI guideline involved a partnership between ESHRE, the International Menopause Society (IMS), the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the Centre of Research Excellence in Women’s Health in Reproductive Life, Monash University.
There was multiple stakeholder involvement (including the British Menopause Society BMS) to facilitate development and dissemination of the surveys that informed the key questions, and to provide feedback from the draft guideline.
Using ESHRE guideline development methodology, with an integrity review of included RCTs, 145 recommendations related to 40 key questions (informed by the scoping review of consumers and HCPs) were developed regarding terminology, prevalence, symptoms, causation, sequelae and treatment of POI.
The updated guideline provides an evidence-based updated comprehensive clinical practice guide for healthcare professionals. The full guideline is available at https://www.eshre.eu/Guidelines-and-Legal/Guidelines/Premature-ovarian-insufficiency.
There has also been simultaneous publication of the summary guideline document in Climacteric, Human Reproduction Open and Fertility and Sterility3-5.
The guideline will be translated into a number of languages in order to ensure maximum dissemination globally, and distribution will be facilitated by the IMS Council of Affiliated Menopause Societies (CAMS) network.
Accompanying the guideline are multiple co-designed resources for consumers and healthcare professionals, including infographics and the Ask Early Menopause app (www.askearlymenopause.org); an update of the IMS Professional Activity for Refresher Training (IMPART) Level 2 module on POI will also be developed.
These tools will contribute positively to the implementation of the guideline, thus optimizing the understanding and effective management of this distressing condition.
Key References
1. Panay N, Anderson RA, Nappi RE, Vincent AJ, Vujovic S, Webber L, Wolfman W. Premature ovarian insufficiency: an International Menopause Society White Paper. Climacteric. 2020 Oct;23(5):426-446.
2. Panay N, Ang SB, Cheshire R, Goldstein SR, Maki P, Nappi RE; International Menopause Society Board. Menopause and MHT in 2024: addressing the key controversies – an International Menopause Society White Paper. Climacteric. 2024 Oct;27(5):441-457.
3. ESHRE, ASRM, CREWHIRL and IMS Guideline Group on POI; Panay N, Anderson RA, Bennie A, Cedars M, Davies M, Ee C, Gravholt CH, Kalantaridou S, Kallen A, Kim KQ, Misrahi M, Mousa A, Nappi RE, Rocca WA, Ruan X, Teede H, Vermeulen N, Vogt E, Vincent AJ. Evidence-based guideline: premature ovarian insufficiency. Climacteric. 2024 Dec;27(6):510-520.
4. Panay N, Anderson RA, Bennie A, Cedars M, Davies M, Ee C, Gravholt CH, Kalantaridou S, Kallen A, Kim KQ, Misrahi M, Mousa A, Nappi RE, Rocca WA, Ruan X, Teede H, Vermeulen N, Vogt E, Vincent AJ; ESHRE, ASRM, CREWHIRL, and IMS Guideline Group on POI. Evidence-based guideline: premature ovarian insufficiency. Hum Reprod Open. 2024 Dec 9;2024(4): hoae065.
5. ESHRE, ASRM, CREWHIRL and IMS Guideline Group on POI; Panay N, Anderson RA, Bennie A, Cedars M, Davies M, Ee C, Gravholt CH, Kalantaridou S, Kallen A, Kim KQ, Misrahi M, Mousa A, Nappi RE, Rocca WA, Ruan X, Teede H, Vermeulen N, Vogt E, Vincent AJ. Evidence-based guideline: Premature Ovarian Insufficiency. Fertil Steril. 2025 Feb;123(2):221-236.
The menopause in the media; From fact to fiction
Mr Simon Brown
Medical Writer, UK Biography
Mr Simon Brown
After graduating (in English), Simon Brown began his career in book publishing and journalism as a copy- and sub-editor. He moved as a production journalist into medical journalism, where he eventually began reporting as a freelancer for newspapers and magazines. A varied career specialising in women’s health and medicine lasted many years, which included press coverage for the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) and editing its news services. Simon presently writes regular freelance columns for the Journal of Post Reproductive Health and the fertility journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online.The menopause in the media: fact or fiction
SESSION 6 – FREE COMMUNICATIONS
Oral presentations
Co-chair: Dr Katie Barber
Co-chair: Professor Nick Panay
SESSION 7 – DEBATE
Testosterone: This house believes that all women should have a “formal” psychosexual assessment before testosterone supplementation is considered
Co-chair: Dr Heather Currie MBE
Consultant Gynaecologist, Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary; Trustee – British Menopause Society Biography
Dr Heather Currie MBE
MB BS, FRCOG, DRCOG, MRCGPGynaecologist at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, specialising in Menopause, Pre Menstrual syndrome and Cervical screening. Co- Editor of Post Reproductive Health, the Journal of the British Menopause Society (BMS), Trustee and past Chair of the BMS, Founder and Managing Director of Menopause Matters Ltd which runs the award winning website www.menopausematters.co.uk, and publishes the award winning Menopause Matters magazine. Author of the award winning book, Menopause, answers at your fingertips and of many original papers and review articles in scientific journals.
Previous national Clinical Lead for Gynaecology in Modernising Patient pathways Programme.
Clinical advisor to Scottish Government for development of the Women’s Health plan for Scotland.
Co-chair: Dr Clare Spencer
GP Partner, The Meanwood Group Practice, Leeds; Co-founder and clinical director My Menopause Centre; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography
Dr Clare Spencer
Dr Clare Spencer is a British Menopause Society (BMS) registered menopause specialist and an NHS GP partner. She qualified from Cambridge University and holds Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners. She initially trained in obstetrics and gynaecology where she gained a Doctor of Medicine for research in fetomaternal medicine. She a member of the BMS medical advisory council and a BMS menopause trainer.As well as working as a GP, she runs a specialist NHS menopause service in Leeds and co-founded My Menopause Centre where she is clinical director.
For: Dr Angela Sharma
GP partner, Pembridge Villas Surgery, London; Clinical Sexologist; Co-founder and Director, Spiced Pear Health; Trustee and medical advisory board member Menstrual Health Project; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council Biography
Dr Angela Sharma
BSc (Hons), MBChB, MRCGP, DRCOG, DCH, DFFP, FECSMDr Angela Sharma is a GP partner at Pembridge Villas Surgery in London and has been a GP for 22 years. She is the lead for women’s health and runs an NHS menopause clinic at the surgery. She is a BMS menopause specialist and is a member of the BMS medical advisory council. She is also a clinical sexologist and trained in both the psychosexual and medical aspects of sexual dysfunction and is a fellow of the European Committee of Sexual Medicine. She is the co-founder and director at Spiced Pear Health an online menopause and sexology clinic.
She is a Trustee and a medical advisory board member for the Menstrual Health Project a charity that empowers and educates women about all menstrual health issues and volunteers for Maggie’s a cancer support centre running menopause and sexology workshops for cancer patients.
Against: Dr Katie Barber
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