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Professor Rodney Baber AM The University of Sydney The menopause is defined as the permanent cessation of menstruation resulting from the loss of ovarian follicular activity and is said to have occurred when 12 months have passed since the final...

Professor Helena Teede MBBS PhD FRACP FAAHMS FRANZCOG Polycystic ovary syndrome affects around 13% of women and is a reproductive, metabolic and psychological disorder. Diagnosis is based on 2 out of 3 features including hyperandrogenism, oligoovulation and polycystic ovarian morphology...

Dr Kate Gregorevic Geriatrician and Internal Medicine Physician Throughout history, as long as women survived childbearing, women have had a longer life expectancy than men. Women do have biological advantages including two x chromosomes, which means an increased capacity to...

Professor Rodney Baber AM  The University of Sydney An association between Menopausal Hormone Therapy (MHT) use and increased breast cancer risk has been known for many years. Observational studies at the turn of the century together with RCT data from...

Mr Len Kling Room for Positive Change In our own ways, we are all incredibly busy and often struggle with competing demands on our time. Likewise, our capacity to meet such demands is often challenged. Many of us have expressed...

Professor Wendy Kohrt, PhD Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology; Nancy Anschutz Chair in Women’s Health Research; University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus Biological systems age at different rates and the consequences of aging in one system...

Professor Beverley Vollenhoven REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGIST AND INFERTILITY SPECIALIST Surrogacy in Australia has 2 major pitfalls; finding a surrogate and the differing definitions in the states within Australia. In Australia, surrogacy is ALWAYS altruistic, though the surrogate can be reimbursed. Surrogates...

Professor Martha Hickey Deputy Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne Around one in 400 women carry pathogenic variants that are known to increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer, most commonly the BRCA1 and BRCA2...

Dr Jason Abbott University of New South Wales There is an increasing body of evidence regarding vulvo-vaginal laser treatments for menopausal symptoms and for treating a variety of other female genital issues such as prolapse. In our recent systematic review...