Androgen Deficiency in Women: What to measure and when to treat

4th May 2017, Melbourne
Presented by: Professor Susan Davis

Professor Susan Davis MBBS FRACP PhD, is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Women’s Health in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University (since 2004). She is a consultant endocrinologist at Cabrini Medical Centre and Head, Specialist Women’s Health Clinic for women with complex disease, Alfred Hospital Melbourne.

She is a President-Elect of the International Menopause Society, having served as a Board Member since 2011, and serves on the Editorial Boards of Maturitas, Menopause, Climacteric and Drugs. She was a member of the Clinical Practice Guidelines panels of the US Endocrine Society for ‘Androgens in Women’ (2012-2014) and Management of the Menopause’ (2014-6). She is a past President of the Australasian Menopause Society.

Professor Davis has made a leading contribution to the understanding of the role of androgens and oestrogens in multiple non-reproductive target tissues including the brain (cognition, mood, sexual function), cardiovascular system (lipids, vascular function and coagulation) and other tissues (fat, muscle, joint cartilage and bone). She has published over 330 peer-reviewed manuscripts, has been an invited lecturer to over 120 international conferences and presented 50 distinguished plenary lectures.

Melbourne – Q&A Session