OUR EXPERTS

Our documentary will share insights from menopause experts around the world - physicians, healers, and researchers.

  • "We're losing women in the workforce due to menopausal symptoms that have gone unaddressed."

    —Nanette Santoro, MD

  • "For brown women like myself, for Native American women and even Hispanic women, we have symptoms longer, our symptoms might last for ten years or more."

    —Monica Christmas, MD

  • "To tell where a woman is in her transition, the best marker is menstrual frequency. How often is your period coming?"

    —Nanette Santoro, MD

  • "When we think about menopause care, we equate it to ‘hormone therapy, yes or no.’ Women need more options and we absolutely need to develop new treatments."

    —Rebecca Thurston, PhD

  • "Inability to have an orgasm is the second most common sexual issue that women have post menopause. But it is at the bottom of the list of things that are discussed."

    —Lauren Streicher, MD

Featured Experts

Nanette Santoro, MD
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Professor, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology

Monica Christmas, MD
University of Chicago
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director, Center for Women's Integrated Health
Director, Menopause Program

Rebecca Thurston, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Foundation Chair in Women's Health and Dementia
Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical and Translational Science, Epidemiology and Psychology

Lauren Streicher, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Founding Medical Director, Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause

Gary Elkins, PhD
Director of the Mind-Body Medicine Research Laboratory
Baylor University

Nancy Reame, PhD, RN, FAAN
Columbia University
Professor Emerita of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Diana Namumbejja Abwoye, FNP-BC
Family Nurse Practitioner
Public Health Consultant (Uganda), Health Equity Advocate 
Board Chair, Our Bodies Ourselves
PhD candidate, Yale University

Nelsan Pourhadi, MD & Lina Morch, MD
Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Denmark

We plan to provide additional footage including in-depth interviews with menopause experts on MenopauseSuperstars.com once the film is released.

Sites We Like

Women Living Better
This excellent site’s focus is perimenopause. There are surveys and details from a diverse cohort of women.

Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause
The brainchild of Omisade Burney-Scott, this site links to her inspiring and informative podcast.

North American Menopause Society
The ‘grandma’ of menopause organizations in the USA, the site is full of evidence-based research, even though it’s a little challenging to navigate. They also host an important annual conference presenting the latest research on menopause.

Menopause Cafe
A fabulous initiative from the UK focusing on in-person meet-ups to encourage us to chat with each other about our experiences with menopause. It hasn’t really taken off in the USA, but some of the gatherings are virtual, and you can attend from anywhere you have wifi.