Wednesday, October 3, 2018

NAMS 2018 annual meeting kicks off in San Diego, California


The North American Menopause Society Annual Scientific Meeting kicks off today in San Diego, California. The agenda is packed with symposiums, lectures, research presentations, and debates over many challenging topics related to health and quality of life of women at midlife and beyond.

The conference theme is Innovation, Evidence, and Individualization: Moving Menopause Management Forward and begins Wednesday, October 3, from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM with pre-Meeting organized by the 2018 Pre-Meeting Co-Chair, Sheryl Kingsberg, Ph.D. on female sexuality.

The presentation will address various aspects of the critical topics including the epidemiology and classification of hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD).

The focus is to make the gynecologist comfortable about talking on the topic with patients.   The six speakers from different discipline of medicine will cover biopsychosocial approach to treating hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in postmenopausal women, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic options for arousal and orgasm issues, the role of the physical therapist in female sexual function and dysfunction, treatment options for sexual problems resulting from genitourinary syndrome of menopause, and testosterone for HSDD: clinical perspectives from sexual medicine and gynecology.

Elissa Epel, Ph.D., from the University of California, San Francisco will talk about Telomere lengths, their role in aging process and psychological aspects of aging in her keynote address “Healthy Longevity and Telomeres: what does sex have to do with it.”

Symposiums are scheduled throughout the conference to discuss critical midlife topics like the role of stress in cardiovascular health of women, breast health, bone health, osteoporosis and increasing rate of hip fractures, and obesity and weight loss.

The Friday morning breakfast is reserved for ‘Trauma-informed care’ including the #MeToo discussion to help physician deal effectively with women who have suffered adverse sexual event, rape or abuse.


Looking forward to some very interesting abstracts presented at the conference.

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