Executive and Council
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AMS President
Dr Jane Elliott
Menopause Clinic, Women's Health Centre
Royal Adelaide Hospital
North Terrace
Adelaide SA 5000
Phone - 08 8222 5587
Fax - 08 8222 5645
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Dr Jane Elliott MBBS
Dr Jane Elliott is a general practitioner with a longstanding commitment and interest in women’s health, especially menopause, osteoporosis and infertility. She is a partner in a general practice and was the Clinical Director of the Adelaide Hormone and Menopause Centre from 2001 to 2007. Now, in addition to her general practice she is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Adelaide University and a Visiting General Practitioner at the Menopause Clinic, Women’s Health Centre, Royal Adelaide Hospital, where she also participates in international clinical research trials in women’s health. Her other interests include counseling and doctors’ health.
Jane is a long-standing member of the Australasian Menopause Society, was elected to the AMS Council in 2003 and was Honorary Secretary from 2005 to 2007. From 2007 -2009 she was the Chair of the Council’s Education and Research Sub-Committee. She is a member of the Medical and Scientific Committee of Osteoporosis Australia. She is passionate about the role of the AMS in providing up to date, evidence based information to AMS members and to the wider health professions and the community. She believes GPs are the mainstay of the holistic care of women at menopause and that translation of clinical research into clinical practice and support of clinicians in their role in providing this information to patients is of paramount importance.President-Elect and CAMS Representative
Dr Anna Fenton
11B Caledonian Rd
Edgeware, Christchurch 8014
Tele - 64 03 366-1925
Fax - 63 03 366-1926
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Dr Anna Fenton BHB, MBChB, PhD, FRACP
Dr Anna Fenton is a Gynaecological Endocrinologist who completed her endocrine training in Perth, Western Australia and a PhD in bone cell biology at the University of Melbourne.
She was involved in establishing the New Zealand branch of the AMS and has served on the board of Osteoporosis New Zealand. Anna has been active in establishing quality standards in bone densitometry in New Zealand.
She has been responsible for establishing and expanding the gynaecological endocrine service at Christchurch Women's Hospital and is actively involved in research and both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
Her research interests cover metabolic bone disease and midlife women's medicine. She serves on a number of corporate and journal editorial boards.
Honorary Secretary
Dr Christine Read
Sexual Health Physician
Consultant in Family Planning, Reproductive and Sexual Health
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Dr Christine Read MBBS ThA FAChSHM Grad Cert PH
Dr Read is an independent consultant in Family Planning and Reproductive and Sexual Health. She is a sexual health physician and has a particular interest in the use of contraceptive methods and the issue of unplanned pregnancy. From 2004 to 2010 she was the Medical Director of Family Planning NSW. Dr Read has also worked in the areas of menopause and mid life for many years and is Honorary Secretary of the Australasian Menopause Society. She is an investigator for a number of research projects including an international contraceptive study, has published original research in peer reviewed journals and edited a number of medical handbooks including 'Contraception: an Australian clinical practice handbook' and 'The Vulva: A Clinician's Practical Handbook.' She has managed a number of innovative projects to address the lack of services and information in country areas for rural and Aboriginal women.
Honorary Treasurer
Professor Bronwyn Stuckey
Keogh Institute Medical Research
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Nedlands WA 6009
Professor Bronwyn Stuckey is an endocrinologist with a clinical and research interest in reproductive endocrinology. She is Consultant Endocrinologist in the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia and Clinical Professor in the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia.
She is also the Medical Director of the Keogh Institute for Medical Research which conducts both clinics and research for both men and women. The focus of her research and that of the Institute is on the interface between reproduction and reproductive hormones and metabolism.
Education & Research Sub-Committee Chair
Dr Linda Spinks
Lilian Cooper Centre
33 North Street
Spring Hill Qld 4000
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Dr Linda Spinks MBBS (QLD)
Dr Linda Spinks graduated from Queensland University and practiced as a GP in rural Queensland for 13 years where her interest in Women's Health and menopausal medicine developed. She was involved in developing preventive health screening clinics for women in smaller rural towns. She currently works in Brisbane in general practice and at the Lilian Cooper Centre – a clinic specialising in Women's Health.
Linda was a surveyor for Australian General Practice Accreditation (AGPAL) for 10 years and a member of the Accreditation Review Committee.
She has been on the Australian Menopause Society Council since 2005 and was Honorary Treasurer from 2007-2011
Past President and APMF representative
Dr Elizabeth Farrell AM
Level 6,
372 Albert Street
East Melbourne Vic 3002
Tel - 61 3 9419 4877
Fax - 61 3 9415 1709
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Dr Elizabeth Farrell AM MBBS FRANZCOG FRCOG
Elizabeth Farrell is the President of the Asia-Pacific Menopause Federation (APMF) for the triennium 2007-2010 and the Australasian Menopause Society representative to the APMF. She is also the representative to CAMS of the IMS.
She is a gynaecologist, and Head of the Menopause Unit at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton Victoria, a director of the Jean Hailes Foundation and a consultant Gynaecologist to both the Jean Hailes Medical Centre and their Education Unit.
For many years she has been involved in education to both the community and health professionals and in clinical research. She is the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 4th Scientific Meeting of the Asia Pacific Menopause Federation, Sydney 2010.
Changes Editor
Dr Sonia Davison
Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
173 Carinish Road
Clayton Vic 3163
Tel - 61 3 9562 7555
Fax - 61 3 9562 7477
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Dr Sonia Davison MBBS FRACP PhD
Sonia is currently an NH&MRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Women's Health Program, Alfred Hospital, Monash University where she is undertaking a study of the effects of testosterone on cognition in women.
She is an Endocrinologist in Private Practice at the Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health with interests in gynaecological and general endocrinology.
Sonia completed a PhD in 2006 examining androgen levels in 1423 Victorian women and their relationships with age, wellbeing, sexual function, natural and surgical menopause.
AMS Congress Scientific Program Chair 2013-2014
Dr Amanda Vincent
Menopause Clinic
Monash Medical Centre
246 Clayton Road
Clayton Vic 3168 Tel - +61 3 9594 6666
Dr Amanda Vincent BMed Sci, MBBS PhD, FRACP
Following postgraduate physician training in Endocrinology, Amanda Vincent completed a PhD thesis at Prince Henry's Institute, Clayton, investigating the pathophysiology of abnormal uterine bleeding.
Amanda is currently employed as an Endocrinologist with the Southern Health Menopause Unit and The Woman's Specialist Menopause Clinic, Melbourne.
She also works as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow, with the Jean Hailes Research Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. Her research involves both clinical research and education projects with a particular interest in early/ premature menopause and Turner's syndrome.
She is an Associate Editor of Climacteric.
AMS Congress Chair – Melbourne 2012
Associate Professor Beverley Vollenhoven
6/252 Clayton Rd, Clayton 3168
Tel: 03 9544 6688
Fax: 0395444707
Associate Professor Beverley Vollenhoven
Associate Professor Beverley Vollenhoven is the head of Gynaecology at Southern Health. She subspecializes in the field of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. She is the head of the Contraceptive Counselling Clinic and a Consultant Gynaecologist in the Menopause Clinic at the Monash Medical Centre. She is a clinician at Monash IVF.Her major research interests are in the growth and development of uterine fibroids and she was one of the Founding Members of The Melbourne Fibroid Clinic. Her other research interests include infertility, ovulatory disorders and their treatment and menopause. She has over 80 publications.She is actively involved in the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and is a Senior Examiner for the Australian Medical Council.
Council Members
Professor Martha Hickey
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
King Edward Hospital
374 Bagot Road
Subiaco , WA, 6008
Tel - 08 9340 1328
Fax - 08 9381 3031
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Professor Martha Hickey MBChB MD FRANZCOG
Professor Martha Hickey is a Clinical Psychologist and Obstetrician Gynaecologist who has recently been appointed to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Western Australia and is currently establishing her research laboratory.
Over the past five years she has gained international recognition for her work on the mechanisms of breakthrough bleeding in women using progestogens. She is part of an all-Australian group awarded a US$1.34m grant by NIH in 2002 to continue this work. Her pioneering work in HRT related bleeding attracted NHMRC funding in 2002 and lead to the "Young Investigator of the Year" award from the RCOG/RANZCOG. She has 35 peer reviewed publications, five chapters and one book.
In 2002 she was made an editor for the large Cochrane "menstrual disorders and subfertility" group. In 1994 she was the most junior clinician to be awarded the MRCOG and 1996 she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Bristol University for research into the mechanisms of endometrial bleeding at Sydney University, supported by a research scholarship from the RANZCOG. She came to Australia from Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM), which has the second most successful research profile in the UK (after Oxford University). In 1999 Martha was awarded permanent residency status in Australia on the grounds of "exceptional overseas talent".
Prof Hickey is a Consultant and Expert Clinical Advisor to the WHO on uterine bleeding and sits on the biomedical review panel allocating WHO funding for reproductive health research. She regularly receives invitations to speak at international meetings, the most prestigious being FIGO 2000 (Washington USA), NIH/WHO symposia on Steroids and Endometrial Bleeding (1996, 1999), the WHO symposia on implantable contraceptives (2001), The European Society for Human Reproduction (1999) and the British and European Menopause Society Meetings in 2000. She acts as an expert clinical referee for a number of international journals. She has twice acted as external examiner for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Dr Jenny Nitz
Division of Physiotherapy
School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, Q 4072
Phone 07 3365 2791
Fax 07 3365 1622
Dr Jenny Nitz PhD, M Phty, B Phty
Dr Jenny Nitz leads the ageing teaching, clinical and research team in the Division of Physiotherapy at UQ. Her main areas of research interest are the effect of ageing on balance and functional ability, the impact of physiotherapy on age related conditions in adults living in the community and residential aged care. Over the last 5 years Jenny has had 37 research papers published in peer-reviewed multi-professional journals, published 1 text book and contributed 10 chapters to physiotherapy texts. She has also attracted around $2M in research funding across a number of research projects where she is a chief investigator. She runs a preventive health clinical intervention program that aims at controlling age-related decline in balance and postural stability in middle-aged women.
Dr Ann Olsson
Dr Ann Olsson MBBS,FRANZCOG
Dr Ann Olsson is a gynaecologist currently practising in South Australia. She graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1984 and completed specialist training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1994. She works in both public and private practice in Adelaide and rural South Australia.
Hospital appointments include Senior Visiting Gynaecologist to the Menopause, Hysteroscopy, Colposcopy and Vulval Disorders Clinics at the Royal Adelaide Hospital as well as Senior Consultant in the Colposcopy Clinic at Flinders Medical Centre.
She is currently Past President and Treasurer of the Australian Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Vice-President of The Australian and New Zealand Vulvovaginal Society.
AMS Executive Director
Lee Tregloan
Australasian Menopause Society
PO Box 264, East Melbourne, Vic 8200
Tel: +61 3 9428 8738
Fax: +61 3 9923 6569
www.menopause.org.au
E-mail:
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Lee Tregloan was appointed Executive Director of the Australasian Menopause Society on the retirement of Viv Wallace as Executive Officer in September 2011. One of Lee's first tasks has been to establish a new home for AMS in Melbourne.
Following experience in specialist family and community services, in 1995, Lee became the foundation CEO of The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) with its links to over 130 countries. Along with directing ISQua's operations over the next thirteen years, including a major conference in a different city in the world each year, Lee also managed the development of its global programme of surveying and accrediting the performance of national healthcare accreditors, also standards.
In 1998, Lee was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Society of Association Executives. She is now a Life Member of ISQua. Her professional background in the not-for-profit sector at international, national and state levels, included working with boards on strategic and financial management, continuous improvement systems, conference and events management, publishing and editing, and membership support
Content Updated 6 January 2012
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