Panel Discussion: Defy Menopause with Your Microbiome: Gut Health as Your Secret Weapon

Explore how menopause-driven microbiome changes impact gut, vaginal, and urinary health—and discover targeted strategies to restore balance and empower women to defy menopause.

Panel: Hormones Gone Wild: Sorting Fact from Fiction

This discussion panel is on the myths and misconceptions of menopausal hormone therapy and the menopause transition.

Fireside Chat: Personal Experience from 3 Aspects- Physician, Patient, Daughter/Caregiver

Sulagna Misra MD BCMAS shares her personal experience with perimenopause, as well as treating it as a physician. How she got around them-and why I do DPC and integrate menopausal care.

Fireside Chat: Flipping the Script on Menopause at Work

Part game show, part Master Class, part stitch and bitch, Lauren Glazer, ACC and Salima Valji, PCC host an interactive session that will help women take charge of the “the change,” and bring their best to the table – in the board room and beyond.

Why Everything Hurts: The Hidden Musculoskeletal Effects of Menopause

Tammy J. Penhollow, DO explores how estrogen loss accelerates joint pain, muscle loss, bone fragility, and injuries—plus strategies for prevention and treatment.

Embracing the Change: Natural Ways to Support Your Body During Menopause.

Galit Steinberg, MD, FACOG will explain what happens to your body during menopause and how you can naturally help yourself not only feel better but become healthier and symptom free.

The Evolving Role of the Women’s Health Specialist in Cancer Prevention and Survivorship

Mercedes Castiel, MD delivers an overview of the pertinent information needed to help patients navigate a risk for cancer or an existing cancer diagnosis from prevention to survivorship.

We Can’t Ignore the Pelvic Floor During Menopause

Niva Herzig, PT believes that pelvic health physical therapy plays a significant role in menopause and will address the changes and talk about issues women feel embarrassed/scared/shamed of asking or are not being asked in their health visits.

Integrative Menopause Symptom Support: An Expanded Menopause-Care Toolkit

Shelly Latte-Naor MD lectures on the use of mindfulness-based interventions, hypnotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in the treatment of hot flashes, sexual function, sleep in the menopause transition and the position of the Menopause Society on these interventions.

Sleep Across the Lifespan: How Sleep Impacts All Phases of Life

Andrea Matsumura, MD lectures on how menopause affects sleep and how new literature on HRT affects how we may help people sleep (and how it doesn’t).

Navigating Menopause, Breast Cancer Risks, and HRT

Tiffany Troso-Sandoval, MD shares her knowledge, experiences, and some practical advice, to help women not just survive menopause, but thrive through it.

Back to the Bedroom in Midlife: Menopause and Sexual Health

Becky Kaufman Lynn, MD, MBA will lecture on the changes that occur during midlife that can lead to sexual dysfunction and provide evidence-based treatments to restore sexual function.