Time
Session
Chair / Speaker
0900
Welcome & introduction
Mr Tony Parsons
Consultant Community Gynaecologist, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry
Consultant Community Gynaecologist, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry0905-0925
Session 1 – Hot off the press
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
Chairman Elect, British Menopause Society; Senior Nurse Specialist; Associate Director, Northwick Park Hospital Menopause Clinic, London; Trustee and Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council0925-1035
Session 2 – Beyond Cancer
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
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.0925-0945
Fertility preservation for young women with cancer
Dr Sheila Lane
Paediatric Oncology Consultant at the Children’s Hospital Oxford & Honorary, Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics at the University of Oxford
Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Clinical Lead and Programme Director for the Reproductive Tissue Cryopreservation Service.0945-1005
Menopause and HRT after cancer
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
BSc, MBChB, FRCOG1005-1025
Sex after cancer
Ms Claudine Domoney
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
Claudine Domoney is a Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK. She completed research in premenstrual syndrome and the menopause then became interested in sexual difficulties as they present in consultations. She has Membership of the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine (IPM) and was the Chair of the IPM. Subsequently she completed further training in pelvic floor dysfunction and surgery. Her interest in pelvic floor function covers physical, hormonal and sexual aspects, including postpartum problems. She provides holistic care for women with gynaecological cancers suffering hormonal and pelvic floor issues.1105-1145
Session 3 – The BMS Annual Lecture: Reassessing the Women’s Health
Chair: Mr David Sturdee
Former Chairman, International Menopause Society and former Chairman, the British Menopause Society
Dr Robert D Langer md mph
Initiative (WHI) HRT trials Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research and Professor of Family Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Principal Scientist and Medical Director, Jackson Hole Center for Preventive Medicine
Professor Robert D. Langer, MD, MPH, is an epidemiologist, family physician and preventive medicine specialist with 30 years of experience in studies of cardiovascular disease, hormone replacement therapy, postmenopausal chronic diseases, breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, osteoporosis and dementia. He has nearly 40 years of experience as a primary care physcian and has authored more than 180 manuscripts in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Dr. Langer was the Principal Investigator of the University of California, San Diego Vanguard Clinical Center for the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) for the entire primary study period from 1993 through 2005. He was the Chairman of the WHI National Investigators Committee (1995-96) and Chairman of the WHI Observational Study Committee (1996-2005). Dr. Langer is the Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and Principal Scientist and Medical Director at the Jackson Hole Center for Preventive Medicine.
MD, DGO, FICOG
Dr Navneet Takkar is a Graduate and post graduate of SMS Medical College, Jaipur.1145-1205
Does India need menopause management?
Dr Jaideep Malhotra
President, Indian Menopause Society
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Malhotra Nursing & Maternity Home, Agra, Director, Rainbow IVF, Agra
MBBS MD (OBS. & GYN.) (FICMCH FIAJAGO FICOG MASRM FICMU FRCOG)1205-1225
Ovarian conservation: to do or not to do?
Dr Suvarna Khadilkar
Consultant Endocrinologist and Gynaecologist, Bombay Hospital & Medical Research Centre, Mumbai
MD DGO FICOG ,CIMP, Diploma in Endocrinology (UK)1335-1420
Session 5 – Educational symposium 2016 Sponsored by Mylan:
IMS Recommendations on women’s midlife health and menopause hormone therapy
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.
1520-1610
Session 6 – Below the belt…? Sponsored by Novo Nordisk
Chair: Dr Heather Currie
Associate Specialist Gynaecologist & Obstetrician Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary, Dumfries,
Chairman of BMS
Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council
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 1520-1540
The overactive bladder – current and future management
Professor Douglas G Tincello
Professor of Urogynaecology, Honorary Consultant Urogynaecologist, Associate Lead for Clinical Research, Department of Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology, University of Leicester, Centre for Medicine
Professor Tincello graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1990. He spent two years as a research fellow in the Medical Research Council Centre for Reproductive Biology in Edinburgh, where he completed his Doctorate. In 1993 he moved to Liverpool where he developed his interest in urogynaecology and academic medicine, working with Dr David Richmond and Professor Jim Neilson at the Women’s Hospital, becoming clinical lecturer in Liverpool University in 1999. He was appointed as Senior Lecturer in the University of Leicester in 2002 and has established a research portfolio in urogynaecology. He was awarded a personal chair within the University in 2012 and has recently been appointed as Associate Lead for Clinical Research in the College of Medicine, Psychology and Biological Sciences in the University. In September 2014 he was appointed Honorary Professor in the School of Medicine and Dentistry in the University of Aberdeen.1540-1600
Keeping it local – local options for vaginal symptoms
Mr Tim Hillard
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Poole Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Poole, Trustee and Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Poole. Trustee and Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council1640-1725
Session 7 – Debate:
This house believes: Vitamin D supplementation should be recommended to all women
Chair: Mr Edward Morris
Consultant Gynaecologist, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital
Trustee and Member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council Biography
Following a 5 year research fellowship at Guys Hospital in London, Eddie has had an interest in the management of the menopause for a total of 20 years. He has been working in gynaecology for 27 years, 16 of which have been at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital where he looks after women with a wide range of problems, but has a particular interest in pelvic pain, endometriosis, fibroids, the menopause, urogynaecology and leads the laparoscopic (keyhole) gynaecological surgery and endometriosis services.For: Mr Anthony Mander
Consultant Gynaecologist, Oxford and Oldham Biography
Current appointments:Against: Dr John C Stevenson
Consultant Metabolic Physician and Reader, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London. Chairman, Women’s Health Concern.
Trustee, British Menopause Society Biography
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.