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Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University
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Thu, 10 Jul, 2025 at 09:00 am to 04:00 pm (GMT+01:00)
Carnegie School Of Sport, Leeds Beckett University
Css, Leeds, United Kingdom
This event will bring together healthcare professionals, researchers, advocates, and women experiencing menopause to discuss groundbreaking approaches, strategies, and solutions for improving quality of life during these life stages. What you can expect:
Speaker biographies
Professor Kathleen Riach is Professor of Organisation Studies at University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School and visiting professor at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation in Australia. Professor Riach’s work on menopause is globally recognised. In 2019, she launched Menopause Information Pack for Organizations (MIPO), one of the world’s first online free resources to help manager support menopause in the workplace, that has since been accessed over 1500 in 50 countries. She has since has worked with a variety of public, private and national governments to introduce their menopause policies, including leading on research that resulted in national guidelines for NHS Scotland employees. In 2024, Kat became chair for the forthcoming ISO standard on Menopause, Menstruation and Menstrual Health in the Workplace, having previously been on the advisory board for the BSI guidelines on the same title.
Dr Nicky Keay is a medical doctor specialising in exercise endocrinology. She is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Division of Medicine, UCL. Her clinical and research work focuses on the interaction between lifestyle and hormone networks, including menopause and relative energy deficiency in sport (REDs).
Brigitte Kaviani is Programme Director for People Experience at the South Yorkshire integrated Care Board with over 38 years’ experience working in the NHS. She leads one of the most impactful ICS-wide initiatives ‘Mission: Menopause’ to raise the awareness of menopause for all workforce in NHS and Care across South Yorkshire. Brigitte was awarded the Employee Benefits Professional of the year in 2024 and the team have been nominated and awarded several awards in 2023-2024 to include HSJ, Henpicked, Employee Benefits and HPMA.
Dr Linia Patel (PhD), RD University of Milan, is a leading dietitian, performance nutritionist and a public health researcher with over 20 years of several nutrition settings including women’s health, performance nutrition corporate wellness and public health. She is a British Dietetic Association Spokesperson and is regularly being quoted in the press. Her passion is translating nutritional science into easy-to-digest and practical advice. She is the author of the bestselling book Food for Menopause.
Professor Theocharis Ispoglou, Leeds Beckett University, is Director of the Centre for Active Lifestyles and Healthy Ageing at Leeds Beckett University. His research addresses nutrition, resistance exercise, and lifestyle interventions to enhance muscle health, wellbeing, and healthy ageing, particularly during menopause
Dr Ashley Gluchowshki, Salford University, is a clinical exercise physiologist (CSEP-CEP), and certified population, behaviour change and implementation support specialist. Ashley’s research takes a co-design approach to raising awareness of strength training guidelines, developing strength training messaging for public health, and using technology - to enable and empower strength training participation.
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Info: Mission: Menopause
Info: Food for Menopause: What to Eat, Why It Matters, and How to Make It Work
Info: Resistance Training and Nutritional Strategies to Counteract Muscle Loss in Perimenopause: Time to Rethink Our Approach?"
Info: Strength training and its role in primary care: a practical session
Info: Professor Kathleen Riach , Dr Linda Patel, Professor Theoharis Ispoglou and Dr Ashley Gluchowski
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| Ticket type | Ticket price |
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| General Admission | Free |
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