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 what treatment options are available for mood and cognition and what is a cause for concern.

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 the differences in cardiovascular symptoms, testing options, and treatment for women with heart disease

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 bone health over a lifetime.

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 discusses current hormone treatment guidelines for midlife women.

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 the treatment options for vaginal dryness in breast cancer survivors and those with a 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 mood changes during perimenopause.

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 the facts about bone density.

Dr Hollis Herman

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.

Dr Cynthia Stuenkel

Past President of NAMS, an internist, endocrinologist, and reproductive endocrinologist at the University of California, San Diego.

Dr Stuenkel discusses current cardiovascular guidelines.

Dr Rebecca Thurston

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 Hot Flashes.