31st Annual Symposium on women’s health – a virtual meeting
View pre-recorded lectures from 17 November to 5 December 2021
Live Q&A webinar on 30 November 1600 – 1800
Programme
Lecture
Speaker
Welcome & introduction
Chairman: Professor John Stevenson
Chairman – Women’s Health Concern; Trustee – British Menopause Society; Consultant Physician & Endocrinologist, Royal Brompton Hospital and Reader in Metabolic Medicine, Imperial College London Biography
Prof John Stevenson is Emeritus Reader in Metabolic Medicine in the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Visiting Professor at the Belgrade School of Medicine, 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 450 publications in journals and books, including 12 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) 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 of the European Menopause and Andropause Society, past Non-US Section Head, Cardiovascular diseases in women (reproductive & post-reproductive age), Women’s Health Faculty, Faculty of 1000 Medicine, and past Editor of Maturitas.Gerald Swyer Memorial Lecture: Managing menopausal symptoms – HRT is not the only option…
Dr Heather Currie, MBE
Associate Specialist Gynaecologist, Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary Biography
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), Trustee 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.Menopause and work: how women in the workplace would like to be supported whilst transitioning through their menopause
Dr Claire Hardy
Senior Lecturer in Organisational Health and Wellbeing, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University Biography
Claire is a mixed methods researcher specialising in the area of work psychology. She is passionate about solving real-world problems at work and uses a variety of methods and approaches to help achieve that. Claire’s main research areas of interest lie in the fields of international working and expatriate assignments, women’s health at work (in particular, reproductive health topics including the menopause and premenstrual experiences), and also employee psychological resilience. Claire also enjoys intervention development and evaluation and developing new measures or scales.
Women make the difference in heart disease
Professor Angela Mass
Professor in Women’s Cardiac Health, Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands Biography
Angela Maas, MD, PhD is a clinical cardiologist for over 30 years and has developed a main interest in heart disease in women over the past decades. She established the first outpatient clinic for women in the Netherlands in 2003. She focuses on the early identification of women at increased CV risk and symptom evaluation in women at middle-age. She has received many awards such as by the Dutch Society of female physicians (2010), the Radboud University (2014) and was knighted by the King in 2017. She is currently one of the most influential female doctors in Dutch healthcare and is the 2020/21 Women’s representative of the Dutch Government to the United Nations. Her book ‘A Woman’s Heart’ (2020, Octopus) summarizes our current insights in women’s cardiac health and is now available in four languages.Role of the specialist pelvic health physiotherapist
Kate Walsh
Physiotherapy Manager and Clinical Lead, Liverpool Women’s Hospital Biography
Kate has been working as a specialist physiotherapist in pelvic health in Merseyside and London for 20 years.
Lifestyle factors and management of the menopause
Dr Annie Neill
Gynaecologist with special interest in post-reproductive health, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Biography
When I qualified in 1988, much of gynaecological practice involved prescription pills, or surgical procedures. Well-meaning treatments were usually accepted by “well-informed” patients. I then had a career break. When I returned in 2013, the clinical landscape looked different. I now realised the limitations of my wise words. I now understood much better that what’s going on in my patients’ minds (their unshared, invisible symptoms) and whatever else they have to deal with (hardships, trauma, poor diet and lack of sleep) often shape their well-being far more than my treatments. A change of tack seemed necessary. I joined the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine and concentrated on better listening and reflection. I studied aspects of Nutrition and Nutrigenomics which I believe to be relevant in the management of complex conditions, including polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and menopausal transition. I am now completing a book for patients living with PCOS which combines self-care and health-care believing that when the two intersect, benefits are amplified and women’s health improves along with the health of their family and social community.Menopause, testosterone and sexual dysfunction
Dr Heike Gleser
Consultant in Sexual & Reproductive Health, Tayside Sexual & Reproductive Health Service Biography
Consultant in Sexual & Reproductive Health at NHS Tayside (Dundee, Scotland); BMS Menopause Specialist, qualified sex therapist. Originally from Germany. She enjoyed a stint as agony aunt at the Nicaraguan State TV and national newspaper in the past. Heike is excited about incorporating recent hypnosis/relaxation training to help her patients with procedural pain like IUC insertions, menopause and PMS symptoms. Management of the perimenopause
Miss Lynne Robinson
Consultant gynaecologist leading the Fertility, Menopause and Reproductive, Endocrine services at Birmingham Women’s Hospital Biography
Lynne currently works as a Consultant 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 is clinical lead of the Fertility, Menopause and Reproductive Endocrine services at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Lynne also has a special interest in tubal and fibroid surgery. She has published widely and continues her academic work alongside her teaching and service development commitments. Lynne lectures regularly on menopausal issues, is a member of the BMS medical advisory council and chairs the West Midlands Menopause Society.