Jo Burgin
Jo Burgin
Dr. Burgin is a GP Academic Clinical Fellow. She has a Masters in Sexual and Reproductive Health research and has a special interest in menopause care. She recently completed workshops with underserved communities in Bristol to co-produce menopause and HRT information leaflets in multiple languages. Her current research is looking at facilitators and barriers to diagnosing perimenopause in women presenting to primary care with mental health symptoms.
Janet Carpenter
Karen Nakawala Chilowa
Karen Nakawala Chilowa
Karen was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2019 for which she was treated with chemotherapy, radiation, and brachytherapy. In January of 2020, she started a support group on face book, Teal Sisters, to raise awareness on cervical cancer and encourage women to go for screening being a survivor herself. She saw the need after her experience and decided to do something about it. Within a month she had over One Hundred and Twenty-Five thousand (125,000) members and managed to get a huge number of women screened countrywide making Zambia the top country in cervical cancer screening out of 20 countries in Africa. She is working closely with the Ministry of health, Cancer Diseases Hospital, and other stakeholders to increase screening access to the HPV vaccine. She is a member of the Cervical Cancer Information, Education and Communication (IEC) Literature development committee, The National Cervical Cancer Sub Committee and the National Cancer Control Technical Working Group and was appointed to sit on the Taskforce for Cervical Cancer Elimination in the Commonwealth.
Monica Christmas
Monica Christmas
Monica Christmas, MD, is an Associate Professor and Director of the Menopause Program and Center for Women’s Integrated Health in the Section of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine in Chicago Illinois. She is on the Board of Trustees for the North American Menopause Society and is on the International COMMA (Core OutcoMes in MenopAuse) Steering Committee. She is a tireless advocate and pioneer championing the need to better understand unanswered questions about the optimal management of menopause in racially and ethnically diverse populations.
Jane Daniels
Jane Daniels
Jane is a Professor of Clinical Trials at the University of Nottingham, with over 25 years’ experience of leading research in women’s health, and recently has developed a particular focus on menopause. In addition to randomised trials and test evaluations, she conducts systematic reviews and evaluations of the clinimetric properties of outcome measures. She co-leads the POISE and BLUSH trials.
Sharon Dixon
Sharon Dixon
Sharon Dixon is a GP and NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, researching adolescent dysmenorrhoea. Her previous research explored primary care perspectives on pathways to care across a range of service needs including diagnostic tests, safeguarding, domestic violence and abuse, endometriosis, women’s health in primary care (including menopause care and utero-vaginal prolapse) and Female Genital Mutilation. She co-ordinated a collaborative partnership project prioritising areas where better technology could enable women’s health.
Samar Elkhoudary
Samar Elkhoudary
Dr. El Khoudary is a cardiovascular epidemiologist with extensive expertise in coordinating multi-center observational studies and applying complex statistical methodologies. She has a long-standing interest in understanding how menopause may contribute to cardiovascular disease risk by evaluating sex hormone levels, lipids, fat deposition, and subclinical atherosclerosis measures in midlife women. Within the Epidemiology Department at the School of Public Health of the University of Pittsburgh, she serves as the vice chair for education, and has been teaching epidemiology methods courses for graduate students. She is actively involved in students’ dissertation and thesis committees.
Andrew Fisher
Andrew Fisher
Andrew Fisher, MD, is an Assistant Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Medical Director of the Transgender Clinic for Affirmation and Reproductive Equity (Trans C.A.R.E.) at the University of Chicago. He is passionate about the care of transgender and gender diverse men and women, as well as, cisgender women, and aims to better understand the evolution of hormone care through both transgender and cisgender people’s lifetime.
Deborah Garlick
Deborah Garlick
Deborah Garlick is the CEO of Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace, founder of Henpicked.net and author of Menopause: the change for the better. Her team have been working with UK-wide and international organisations for over 7 years to make it easier for them to introduce the right training, policies and practices to raise awareness, education and support of this critical area.
In 2021, she launched The Menopause Friendly Membership and accreditation. The membership is now supporting over 400 leading employers to achieve Menopause Friendly Accreditation. She’s is also the director of Menopause Friendly Australia which launched this year.
Karen Giblin
Karen Giblin
Karen Giblinis President of Red Hot Mamas North America Inc. She is Founder of Red Hot Mamas®, the nation's largest menopause education program providing mid-life women's health information and support which began in 1991. Red Hot Mamas® programs have been offered in over 250 hospitals and physician practices in the US.
Directed by Giblin, the Red Hot Mamas® has an HON accredited website www.redhotmamas.org. Karen is also Editor-in Chief of the Red Hot Mamas® monthly E-newsletter, The Menopause Minute® which dispenses the latest news on menopausal health, research, and treatments to guide women through menopause.
Giblin has authored two books on menopause which are entitled "The Manual of Management Counseling for the Perimenopausal and Menopausal Patient" (Parthenon-CRC Press) and "Eat to Defeat Menopause" (De Capo Publishing). Karen has also been the lead investigator and presenter of numerous research projects on women’s health.
Karen Giblin is a member of The North American Menopause Society and The International Menopause Society.
Karen holds a BA in Political Science and prior to working in women’s health, she held public office and served three terms as Selectman, in Ridgefield, CT. During her tenure, she was a recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell Award/Feminist Leadership Award, from the National Organization of Women.
Toto Anne Gronlund
Toto Anne Gronlund
Toto holds to heart values of openness, honesty, and mutual respect. Toto is committed to creating opportunities for the expertise of the self to emerge, adopting the value of co-creation, for a more sustainable health and care system.
Toto brings over 30 years of experience in health, social care, and the voluntary sector. She has recently retired from the NHS, having worked in citizen and clinical involvement, health Informatics, evaluation, and health economics. In the voluntary sector she has held roles as a Trustee and facilitator and mentor. Most rewarding was helping groups to use participative evaluation to develop and value their work and their members. Toto started her NHS career as a Hospital Medical Physicist, working in research into non-invasive diagnostics.
As part of lifelong learning Toto completed a diploma in International Primary Care Research at UCL, specializing in the use of the narrative in health research, care and education.
Claire Hardy
Claire Hardy
Dr Claire Hardy is registered Chartered Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Organisational Health and Wellbeing within the Division of Health Research at Lancaster University’s Faculty of Health and Medicine in the UK. She is one of the world’s leading academic researchers in the field of menopause within the context of work.
Martha Hickey
Martha Hickey
Professor Martha Hickey is a Clinical Psychologist and Obstetrician Gynecologist at the University of Melbourne. She runs a large public menopause service in Victoria, Australia and is a leading clinical researcher in gynecology, with more than 400 published peer-reviews. Professor Hickey is the inaugural Director of the Gynecology Research Centre in VIC, Australia’s largest clinical/lab women’s health center facility. Her clinical and research focus is menopause and healthy ageing. She led clinical, epidemiological, and translational research generating new knowledge to change policy and improve menopause care worldwide. She is the topic advisor for the UK NICE Guidelines on menopause (2023) and delivered the first global Core Outcome Set in menopause (COMMA).
Sarah Hillman
Sarah Hillman
Dr Sarah Hillman is a GP and Associate Professor in Primary Care. She researches women’s health in community settings and currently has funding from the NIHR to look at access to menopause care for women from under resourced groups (Menopause GAP). She is working with NICE and NHSE to help improve menopause care.
Hadine Joffe
Hadine Joffe
Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc, is the Paula A. Johnson Endowed Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School, Executive Vice Chair for Academic and Faculty Affairs in the Department of Psychiatry and Executive Director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she directs the Women’s Hormones and Aging Research Program. Dr. Joffe is past-President of the North American Menopause Society, from which she received the Thomas Clarkson Outstanding Clinical & Basic Science Research Award.
Dr. Joffe is an experienced clinician and clinical reproductive neuroscientist in the field of women’s brain health in relation to midlife aging, mental health, and neurobehavioral consequences of cancer therapies. Continuously funded by the NIH since 2000, her research focuses on the mechanisms (neural, hormonal, stress, autonomic), course, downstream consequences (body fat gain), and treatment of neuropsychological symptom outcomes (depression, insomnia thermoregulatory disturbance, fatigue) in healthy midlife women and breast cancer survivors.
Sheryl Kingsberg
Sheryl Kingsberg
Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg is the chief of the division of behavioral medicine at MacDonald Women’s Hospital/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Professor in Reproductive Biology, Urology and Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. Her areas of clinical specialization and research include female sexual disorders, menopause, and psychological aspects of infertility.
Dr. Kingsberg is an Associate Editor for Sexual Medicine Reviews and sits on the editorial boards of the journals Menopause and Climacteric. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and numerous book chapters and has co-edited a multidisciplinary textbook on treating female sexual disorders.
Dr. Kingsberg is a past president of The North American Menopause Society and The International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health. She currently serves as the Advocacy Committee Chair for both organizations.
Nina Kuypers
Nina Kuypers
Nina Kuypers is the creator and founder of BWiM. This is an online Community for Black women to connect with each other and, have a safe space to share their experiences about the menopause, support each other and learn from Black professionals. Nina’s aim is to diversify menopause across society, so that those in decision making roles recognise, acknowledge and, champion wider inclusion. She was also a key speaker to MPs and peers at the APPG Menopause group and APPG Women at Work. Nina was also a NICE lay committee member on the updated guidelines. Nina is also a trustee for Black Beetle Health who are dedicated to promoting health, wellbeing, and equality for LGBTQ+ Black and People of Colour.
Gita Mishra
Gita Mishra
Professor Mishra is an international leader in the epidemiology of menopause. She is Director of the national flagship study – the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, at the University of Queensland. She has published over 470 scientific papers, book chapters, and reports to inform both national and global health policy, including at the WHO and UN.
Zachary Nash
Zachary Nash
Project coordinator. Dr. Zachary Nash is a clinical research fellow in Gynaecology at UCLH and is registered for a PhD at UCL. Prior to this he completed an NIHR academic clinical fellowship within the IfWH. His main research interest is reproductive endocrinology and infertility. He works on the NIHR HTA funded POISE and BLUSH trials which seek to find the optimum hormone treatment of premature ovarian insufficiency and the best non-hormonal pharmacological treatment for menopausal hot flushes.
Shibani Nicum
Shibani Nicum
Dr Shibani Nicum is an Associate Professor in Medical Oncology and Honorary Consultant Oncologist at University College London. She specialises in the treatment of women with gynaecological cancers. Her research interests include the development of novel therapies to provide personalised treatment options for patients and to improve survivorship, with a particular focus on cancer treatment induced menopause. She has led several international and national trials, including the ICON9 and OCTOVA trials and is the Chair of the National Cancer Research Institute Gynaecological Group and is also the Lead for Gynaecological Trials at the Cancer Research UK and UCL Cancer Trials Centre.
Michelle Peate
Michelle Peate
A/Prof Peate is the Program Leader for the Psychosocial Health and Wellbeing Research (emPoWeR) Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne. Michelle is overseeing projects in psychology and reproductive health. Her research portfolio has involved the development, evaluation, and implementation of resources for people who need them. Her work is internationally recognised. She is also President of the Australian Society of Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ASPOG).
Viktoria Rother
Viktoria Rother
A scientist by inclination, nature, and education. Recently finished a Master of Environmental Science (Management & Sustainability) via the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. More than 10 years working as Consumer Advocate/Consultant/Representative for Mercy Health, St Vincent’s Health, and for the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Lived experience of mental illness, endometrial cancer, and, at 60, of the delights of menopause. I have a heterodox approach to everything, personal AND professional.
Jenifer Sassarini
Jenifer Sassarini
Dr. Jenifer Sassarini is a Consultant Gynaecologist at Glasgow Royal Infirmary with a special interest in menopause specifically menopause after cancer. She has written peer review papers and book chapters related to menopause and won the Robert Greenblatt Prize in Basic Science at the International Menopause Society World Congress in 2011 and again in 2017.
Kristine Staley
Kristine Staley
Dr Kristina Staley is Director of TwoCan Associates, a small consultancy specialising in promoting and supporting patient and carer involvement in health and social care research. Over the last 20 years she has worked with a wide range of organisations in the voluntary and statutory sector to develop policy and practice, and to evaluate the impact of involvement. She has worked with many different James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships as an information specialist and carried out one of the first evaluations of the impact of Priority Setting Partnerships.