The Menopause Society (formerly the North American Menopause Society (NAMS)) presents its comprehensive video series for clinicians about important midlife health topics. All of the interviews in the series are hosted by NAMS Board of Trustees Member and Past-President Dr Marla Shapiro, a Canadian physician, who led this exciting initiative. Dr Shapiro is also the medical consultant for CTV News and on-air medical contributor to Canada AM.
Note: The Australasian Menopause Society does not necessarily endorse the medical and scientific information provided in these videos. As the medical and scientific information provided here might not be relevant to a particular person's circumstances and you should always discuss your health with your own healthcare provider.
Professor Claudio Soares
Board Member,The North American Menopause Society
Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry Queen’s University School of Medicine
Executive Director, Research and Innovation, Providence Care Hospital
Executive Lead, Strategy and New Partnerships
Canadian Biomarker Integration Network in Depression (CAN-BIND),St. Michael’s Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dr Claudio Soares discusses how to treat cognition and mood changes in midlife
Dr. Chrisandra Shufelt
Associate Director, Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center and Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center;
Director, Women’s Heart and Menopause Program; and
Associate Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.
She is also a member of the NAMS Board of Trustees.
Dr Chrisandra Shufelt discusses cardiovascular disease in women
Risa Kagan, MD, NCMP
Past Board Member, The North American Menopause Society
Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
University of California, San Francisco
Clinical Researcher, Sutter Bay Medical Foundation
Berkeley, California
Dr Risa Kagan discusses diagnosing, treating, and individualising therapy for osteoporosis
JoAnn V. Pinkerton, MD, NCMP
NAMS Executive Director Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Division Director of Midlife Health
The University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, Virginia
Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton talks about the current science and treatment options of hormone therapy
Stephanie S Faubion, MD, FACP, NCMP, IF
Director, Executive and International Medicine
Director, Office of Women’s Health
Professor of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Dr Faubion discusses what options a clinician has for the treatment of GSM in survivors of breast cancer or in those at high risk of breast cancer.
Dr Pauline Maki
NAMS Past-President and professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
She also is Director of Women’s Mental Health Research, Associate Director of the Center for Research on Women and Gender, and Program Director of the K12 Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) program in Chicago.
Dr Maki discusses depression during midlife.
James H Liu, MD, NCMP
2018-2019 NAMS President
Arthur H Bill Professor and Chair
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University Hospitals/MacDonald Women’s Hospital
Department of Reproductive Biology
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio
Dr Liu discusses what the clinician needs to know about bone density assessments.
Doctor of physical therapy, orthopedic and women’s health clinical specialist, and certified pelvic rehabilitation practitioner.
Dr Herman is also cofounder of the Herman and Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Past President of NAMS, an internist, endocrinologist, and reproductive endocrinologist at the University of California, San Diego.
Dr Stuenkel discusses current cardiovascular guidelines for clinicians.
Director of the Women’s Biobehavioral Health Laboratory and Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, Epidemiology, and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr Thurston discusses the science behind vasomotor symptoms.
