#52 Hormone Replacement Therapy with Professor Susan Davis

Professor Susan Davis is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Senior Principal Research Fellow, Professor of Women's Health in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Consultant Endocrinologist, President of the International Menopause Society, co-founder of the Jean Hailes Foundation and past President of the Australasian Menopause Society.  Just to name a few!

We discuss:

1. Initiating hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
2. Risks and benefits
3. Ceasing HRT
4. Testosterone for women?  Evidence, indications, pros/cons
5. Bioidentical HRT - what is it? evidence, pros, cons
6. Tailored HRT - to bloods/salvia results - evidence? pros/cons?  
7. Good resources

 

Professor Davis declared conflicts of interest include:

Received honoraria from Besins Healthcare, Pfizer and Lawley pharmaceuticals Consultant to Que Oncology and Mayne Pharmaceuticals   Enjoy friends