Course Director
Deborah Gomez Kwolek, MD, FACP, FAMWA, MSCP
Dr. Kwolek is a menopause consultant, internal medicine specialist and primary care physician at Mass General Brigham and
Harvard Medical School, with over 30 years’ experience. She leads the Women’s Health and Sex and Gender Medicine Program in the MGH Department of Medicine, is an internationally recognized leader in women’s health education, and is co-PI of iGLOWe- improving women’s health globally through online education and training through the Medical International Women’s Association and Gates Foundation/NIH. She is the founding Director of Harvard’s Women’s Health and Menopause Course.
Course Director
Mahmooda Qureshi, MD, MSCP, DipABLM
Dr. Qureshi is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, consultant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Menopause Clinic, and Benson- Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine. Fellowship-trained in women’s health, board-certified in Internal and Lifestyle Medicine, she is a certified coach. Dr. Qureshi is Co-Director of the HMS course Primary Care Medicine and Director and co-creator of Women’s Health and Menopause.
Course Co-Director
Tara K. Iyer, MD, DABOM, DipABLM
Featured Keynote Speakers
HEATHER HIRSCH, MD, MS, MSCP
Dr. Hirsch is founder and CEO of Health by Heather Hirsch, a leading menopause education platform for patients and clinicians. She founded the Menopause and Midlife Clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital while on faculty at HMS and now leads a telemedicine-focused practice and health technology company. Board-certified in Internal Medicine, she is a nationally recognized media expert and author.
VONDA WRIGHT, MD, MS, FAOA
Dr. Wright is an Orthopedic surgeon, Sports Medicine specialist, Wellness and Longevity expert, and serves as President at Hughston Orthopedics Southeast. She is a prolific author, speaker, podcaster, researcher, and the Founder and CEO of Precision Longevity, and Women’s Health Conversations. Her research focuses on sports performance and exercise. She coined the term Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause.
KELLY CASPERSON, MD
Dr. Casperson is a board-certified urologic surgeon and founder of The Casperson Clinic, a modern practice focused on hormones and sexual medicine. She is the host of the top-ranking podcast You Are Not Broken and a nationally recognized speaker and educator. Her work focuses on evidence-based education in sexual health, intimacy, and midlife wellness.
RACHEL RUBIN, MD, IF, MSCP
Dr. Rubin is a Urologist and Sexual Medicine expert, and Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. In her practice in Washington DC, she provides comprehensive care for issues like pelvic pain, menopause, erectile dysfunction, and low libido. Dr. Rubin has served in multiple education positions including at ISSWSH, Journal of Sexual Medicine Review, and Video Journal of Sexual Medicine.
AVRUM BLUMING, MD, MACP
Dr. Bluming is a medical oncologist, former Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute, and Emeritus Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California. A Master of the American College of Physicians, he is renowned for his decades of research on the benefits and risks of estrogen therapy, including in women with a history of breast cancer, and remains a leading voice in menopause care.
CORINNE MENN, DO, FACOG, MSCP
Dr. Menn is a board-certified Ob/Gyn and Menopause Society– Certified Practitioner specializing in menopause care, sexual health, and cancer survivorship. A breast cancer survivor, she brings a patient-centered perspective to national clinician education. She teaches CME courses on menopause after breast cancer and in BRCA previvors and serves on the Council of Advisors for the Young Survival Coalition.
MELINDA RING, MD, FACP, ABOIM, DIPABLM, CNS, IFMCP
Dr. Ring is Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health and Tina Trott Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Triple boardcertified in Internal, Integrative, and Lifestyle Medicine, she has over two decades of clinical and educational leadership focused on women’s health and midlife. Founder, Cooking Up Health culinary medicine initiative, nationally recognized speaker and TEDx presenter.
EMILY LAU, MD, MPH
Dr. Lau is the Director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Women’s Heart Health program and Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS. Dr. Lau is an expert in caring for women with a focus on cardiometabolic and menopause-related cardiovascular risk. Her research uses multi-omics, imaging, exercise physiology, and machine learning to study sex differences and female-specific risk factors that contribute to women’s cardiovascular health.
Faculty
Allison Baker, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Women’s Mental Health
Suzanne Bertisch, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinical Director of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Jennifer Blake, PT, MS
APTA-CAPP-Pelvic and CAPP-Obstetric Certified Physical Therapist, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Marcy Bolster, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Brigham
Amy Bregar, MD
Assistant Professor of Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Biology, Gynecologic Oncology, Massachusetts General Brigham
Nomi Levy Carrick, MD, MPhil
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Vice Chair of Clinical
Services, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Amy Colwell, MD
Professor of Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Mass General Brigham
Amy Comander, MD, FACLM, DipABLM, MSCP
Instructor in Medicine, Director of Breast Oncology and
Cancer Survivorship, Massachusetts General Brigham
Cancer Institute, Waltham
Helen Delichatsios, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Educator in Culinary &
General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospitall
Beth P. Frates, MD, FACLM, DipABLM
Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Past President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Jill Goldstein, PhD, MPH
Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Innovation Center on Sex
Differences in Medicine, Massachusetts General Brigham
Claudia Guillen, DNP, MS, AGPCNP-BC, DipACLM
Nurse Practitioner, Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Educator in Primary Care, Lifestyle & Culinary Medicine,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Colleen Harrington, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, Women’s Heart
Health Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Frances Hayes, MB BCh, BAO
Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinical Director Reproductive
Endocrine Associates, Massachusetts General Hospital
Kathie Huang, MD, FAAD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Co-Director Hair-Loss
Clinic, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Steven Isakoff, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Breast Cancer
Clinical Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc
Professor of Psychiatry in the field of Women’s Health, Chair,
Dept of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Ruta Nonacs, MD, PhD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Perinatal & Reproductive
Psychiatry, Center for Women’s Mental Health,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Rachel Rosovsky, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of Thrombosis
Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
Andrea Reilly, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Trauma specialist, Director
Freedom Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital
Stephanie Seminara, MD
Professor of Medicine, Chief Reproductive Endocrine Unit,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jan Shifren, MD, MSCP
Professor of Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Biology, Director,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Midlife Women’s Health
Center, Past President Menopause Society
Jennifer Siegel, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine. Medical Director,
Transgender Health Program, Massachusetts General
Hospital
Kyle Staller, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of the
Gastrointestinal Motility Lab at Mass General Brigham
Joy Tsai, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Bone and Mineral
Disorders, Endocrinology, Massachusetts General Brigham
Molly Wanner, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Laser and Cosmetic
Dermatology, Massachusetts General Brigham
Anna Wolfson, MD, AAAAI
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Allergy and Immunology,
Massachusetts General Brigham
Visiting Faculty
Pelin Batur, MD, FACP, MSCP
Professor of Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Biology, Cleveland
Clinic College of Medicine
Ami B. Bhatt, MD, FACC
Chief Innovation Officer, American College of Cardiology,
Former Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard
Mehret Birru-Talabi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Rheumatology and Clinical
Immunology, UPMC
Elise De, MD
Assistant Professor of Urology, Albany Medical Center
Kristi Tough DeSapri, MD, MSCP, CCD
Founding physician & owner, Bone and Body Women’s Health
Jewel Kling, MD, MPH, FACP, MSCP
Professor of Medicine, Dean, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine
Melissa McNeil, MD, MPH, MACP
Professor of Medicine, Brown University
Eleanor Nwadinobi, MBBS, EMA, FAAC
Immediate Past President, Medical Women’s International
Association
André Vinícius, MD, MS
Professor of Gynecology, Federal University of Campina
Grande, Brazil
Course Administrator
Veasna Ngoun, APC
Veasna is the Continuing Medical Education Manager in Massachusetts General Hospital’s Division of General Internal Medicine, managing multiple Harvard Medical School–accredited educational programs. He is Special Projects Administrator for the Sylvie Ratelle STD/HIV Prevention Training Center of New England.