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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: Dr Zoe Schaedel

Mr Tim Hillard

Dr Hannah Beckwith

Consultant Nephrologist, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; NIHR DSE Award Holder, King’s College London Biography

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Dr Hannah Beckwith

Dr Hannah Beckwith is a Clinical Lecturer at the Department of Women and Children’s Health, Kings College London and Consultant Nephrologist at Kings College Hospital. She completed her MBChB at the University of Edinburgh in 2010 and undertook her postgraduate training in Northeast and Northwest London. She was awarded a PhD from Imperial College London in 2023 for research into the role of SGLT3 in Pregnancy and Lactation, which was funded by a competitive MRC Chain Florey Fellowship. Her current research investigates the complex bidirectional interactions between ovarian function, female sex hormones, cardio-renal disease, and inflammation, using machine learning approaches applied to longitudinal, population-scale clinical data to delineate and characterise underlying biological pathways. She is currently leading the development of the UK Kidney Association Clinical Practice Guidelines on Menopause and Kidney Disease and served as the chronic kidney disease topic expert for the UK Medical Eligibility Criteria (UKMEC) guideline on hormonal and emergency contraception (2025).

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Co-chair: Professor Anne MacGregor

Associate Specialist in Sexual & Reproductive Health, Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust, London; British Menopause Society Education Advisor  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 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, is a Fellow of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare and a British Menopause Society specialist and trainer. She has been a member of the BMS for 30 years.

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Co-chair: Dr Colinette Margerison

GP with Extended Role Gynaecology, Royal Hampshire County Hospital; Member – British Menopause Society medical advisory council  Biography

Dr James Larkin

Senior Postdoctoral Fellow and Honorary Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland; Visiting Fellow, University of Bath  Biography

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Dr James Larkin

Dr James Larkin is a senior post-doctoral fellow and honorary lecturer in RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ireland, and a visiting research fellow in the University of Bath. Dr Larkin has researched online information about hormone replacement therapy. He also has expertise in industry marketing practices and management of conflicts of interest.

Dr Larkin holds a PhD in Health Economics from RCSI, an MSc in Global Health and Development from University College London, and a BA in Mathematics and Psychology from Trinity College Dublin. He has previously worked with a range of health and non-governmental organisations, including the Irish College of General Practitioners and Oxfam Ireland.

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Professor Susan Davis

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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 Annie Neill

Gynaecologist, Locum Consultant, West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Speciality Doctor in Contraception and Sexual Health, Cambridge Community Services and Psychosexual Specialty Doctor, Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust Biography

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Dr Annie Neill

Dr Annie Neill is a consultant gynaecologist currently working in a locum post at West Suffolk hospital. She is a BMS menopause specialist. In addition, Annie compliments her hospital practice by working as a speciality doctor in contraception and sexual health at Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust. Involved in education and life-style medicine, Annie teaches regularly on BMS Masterclasses. She recently co-created an online training programme in menopause care for GP trainees and is a facilitator for the Menopause support programme for employees at Cambridge University.

A member of the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine, Annie was a key contributor to a recent award-winning two-year psychosexual pilot study in Cambridge and now been appointed as a speciality doctor in psychosexual medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital.

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Dr Arvind Kaul

Consultant Rheumatologist and Honorary Reader in Rheumatology, St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Chair, Hughes APS Trust charity; Chair, BSR Clinical Affairs Committee Biography

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Dr Arvind Kaul

Dr Arvind Kaul is a Consultant Rheumatologist at St. George’s Hospital, London, and Honorary Reader in Rheumatology at City St. George’s University of London. He is clinical lead for the Connective Tissue Disease service at St. George’s Hospital and runs a multispeciality service centred around Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) including the UK’s first lupus menopause clinic. Dr Kaul is currently Chair of the British Society for Rheumatology Clinical Affairs Committee, Chair of Trustees of the charity, the Hughes Antiphospholipid Syndrome Trust, Associate Editor for the international journal Rheumatology and Editorial Board member of the journal Lupus, and a member of the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group (BILAG). He is an active member of the INSPIRE and Menopause Matters Research Group and has contributed to several publications centred around patient experiences of the menopausal transition and associated care.

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Professor Beverley Hunt OBE

Professor of Thrombosis & Haemostasis, King’s Healthcare Partners; Consultant, Thrombosis & Haemophilia Centre, Guy’s and St Thomas’s, London; Strategic Lead in Laboratory Haematology for Synnovis; Trustee & Founder of Thrombosis UK Biography

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Professor Beverley Hunt

Co-founder, previous Medical Director and now co -chair of the trustee of Thrombosis UK. Thrombosis UK is the “go to charity for all things related to thrombosis and especially venous thromboembolism in the UK and was the UK best charity of the year in 2012.

A member of the Steering group of World Thrombosis Day when it was founded 10 years ago and chairman for 3 years until December 2022.

2019 awarded the title of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s birthday honours list for services to medicine.

2020 awarded the British Society for Haematology medal for service to haematology.

In the COVID-19 pandemic I became an international expert on thrombosis and coagulopathy in COVID-19 patients & gave 120 webinar and numerous media interviews.

2021 received an International Society of Thrombosis & Haemostasis Esteemed Career award.

2022 chair of the ISTH congress committee, which was held in London

2023 with other members of the UK Expert Haematology panel for vaccine- induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) awarded a Royal College of Pathology Achievement award

In October 2025 gave the Jaap de Graeff lecture for Leiden University Medical School

Co -chair of the World Health Organisation living Covid -19 guideline development group since 2022 and is a member of the WHO guideline development group for filoviruses (which cause viral haemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola and Lassa fever

2025 Cochair of element 1 of the Maternal Care Bundle published 6^th August 2026

Runs a clinical & laboratory research teams currently focusing on antithrombin deficiency, antiphospholipid syndrome, the use of AI in digital pathology and the management and prevention of hospital -associated venous thromboembolism, especially in pregnancy and the puerperium with other ongoing studies in many areas in thrombosis & bleeding. Holder of multiple grants covering clinical trials to laboratory studies.

Over 520 original publications on PubMed, and an “h index” of 112

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Co-chair: Dr Paula Briggs

Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust; Immediate Past Chair and Trustee – British Menopause Society Biography

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Dr Paula Briggs

Paula Briggs is a Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health based at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust.

She is the Immediate Past Chair of the British Menopause Society.

Paula qualified from University of Glasgow 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 urogenital atrophy.

She has co-edited 3 books, co-written an undergraduate textbook in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, a revision guide for MFSRH and a book specifically for men about female hormones. She has also written a patient booklet on menopause (second edition).

She is married with four children and enjoys golf, yoga/pilates, reading and cooking.

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Co-chair: Mr Paul Simpson

Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Chair Elect and Trustee – British Menopause Society Biography

Professor Antonio Cano

Director of Salus Vitae Women’s Health, Valencia, Spain  Biography

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Professor Antonio Cano

Antonio Cano is a Full Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, having held successive academic appointments at the Universities of Murcia and Valencia, Spain. He obtained his doctorate as a scholar of the Royal Spanish College at the University of Bologna (Italy) and completed postdoctoral training as a British Council Fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, UK. His principal research interests lie in female reproductive endocrinology. Professor Cano is Associate Editor of Climacteric, Post Reproductive Health and of the European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. He is a Past President of the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS), General Secretary of the International Society of Gynecologic Endocrinology (ISGE), and a member of both the Board of Directors and the Educational Committee of the International Menopause Society (IMS).

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Co-chair: Dr Shilpa McQuillan

Clinical Lead, Community Gynaecology Berkshire West; Director & Clinical Lead, Berkshire Menopause Clinic; GP; Member — British Menopause Society medical advisory council  Biography

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Dr Shilpa McQuillan

Dr Shilpa McQuillan is a women’s health GP and NHS community gynaecologist with over 15 years’ experience in gynaecology and women’s health. She began her career in hospital gynaecology before moving into community-based care, where she leads the Community Gynaecology Service in Berkshire West, integrating menopause and gynaecology expertise into NHS pathways to improve timely access for women.

She is a British Menopause Society menopause specialist and was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (FRCOG) in 2024. Shilpa also serves on the British Menopause Society medical advisory council, contributing to national standards, education, and guidance in menopause care.

In addition to her NHS work, Shilpa founded Berkshire Menopause Ltd, a specialist private menopause and women’s health clinic providing personalised, evidence-based care for women at all stages. She is also an experienced educator, regularly lecturing to healthcare professionals and engaging in wider professional and public education through conferences, workshops, and media.

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Co-chair: Professor Nick Panay

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

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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).

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Dr Juliet Balfour

Professor Anne MacGregor

Dr Zoe Schaedel

Dr Kristyn Manley

Professor Janice Rymer

Dr Clare Spencer