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Dr Sarah Gray has spent over 30 years delivering Women’s Health in Primary Care. She has been a GP in Cornwall since 1992 and ran an NHS menopause referral clinic for 15 years until this was decommissioned to save funding costs in 2016. She remains on the performers list but now leads an independent practice providing women’s health at specialist level.

She sat on the British Menopause Society Council for 10 years and was a member of the groups who developed NICE CG44 and Quality Standards for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. She is now an executive director of the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum and a Training Program Director for the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health. Sarah provides clinical governance to the public heath arm of Cornwall Council. Her latest textbook chapter was published in July 2020.

Diana Mansour, MBBCH, FRCOG, FFSRH, DIPM
Consultant in Community Gynaecology and Reproductive Health Care,
FSRH Senior Vice President, New Croft Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Dr Diana Mansour is a Consultant in Community Gynaecology and Reproductive Health Care and Associate Clinical Lecturer at the University of Newcastle since 1997. In addition Dr Mansour is the Senior Vice President for the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare.

Dr Mansour was the first accredited subspecialty trainee in Community Gynaecology and Reproductive Health Care of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She is also a BMS Menopause Specialist. Dr Mansour is first author to over 90 peer-reviewed publications and has most recently published in the European Journal Contraception Reproductive Health Care, Contraception and the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care.

Dr Mansour’s areas of expertise include acceptability of contraceptive methods, non-contraceptive benefits of contraception, development of long-term methods of contraception, changes in health service provision, medical management of heavy menstrual bleeding, menopause and hormone replacement therapy.

Nick Panay BSc FRCOG MFSRH
Consultant Gynaecologist, Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine & Surgery
Imperial College Healthcare and Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College London
President Elect, International Menopause Society
Immediate Past Honorary Director of Conferences, RCOG
Guest Professor, Beijing Capital Medical University

Serge Rozenberg is Head of Department and Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the “Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel”, in Brussels, Belgium. He is in charge of the menopause and osteoporosis unit at the University Hospital, St Peter, and is well recognized in the area of women’s health in general. He has written a thesis on postmenopausal osteoporosis and published more than 200 articles in international peer reviewed journals on topics such as women’s health, menopause, osteoporosis and reproductive endocrinology. He is on the editorial board of several international journals and has received several awards and grants for his research. He has been president of EMAS and is one of the editors of Maturitas.

Dr Shahzadi Harper is founder of The Harper Clinic, Harley St, London which is a specialist clinic focussing on women’s wellbeing and menopause. She is a keen believer in the early management of symptoms of the perimenopause to optimise health and hormonal wellbeing. She aims to help women look good, feel confident and sexy. She is a member of the British menopause society, European menopause and Andropause society and International menopause society, and is actively involved in raising awareness around the subject and has given educational talks to GP’s and businesses on menopause in the workplace.

Dr Harper is often in the media talking about women’s health and menopause, This Morning, BBC Radio Oxford, Talk Radio and Podcasts with Liz Earle and Sunday Times to name a few.

Dr Harper graduated from University College London in 1994 and is an experienced GP but in the last five years she has dedicated herself to women’s hormonal wellbeing.

She takes a holistic and positive approach to women’s wellbeing and the menopause.

Dr Sophia Tsiligiannis is a specialist trainee in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London and is currently undertaking an MD at Imperial College focusing on low dose Hormone Replacement Therapy under supervision of Mr Nick Panay and Professor John Stevenson. She is a graduate of Monash Medical School, Melbourne having received an MBBS and B.Med.Sci.

Professor John Stevenson (MB BS, FRCP, FESC, MFSEM) 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.