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8.8 hours
University of South Wales, Treforest Campus
Starting at GBP 63
Sat, 04 Oct, 2025 at 08:15 am to 05:00 pm (GMT+01:00)
University of South Wales, Treforest Campus
Llantwit Road, Pontypridd, United Kingdom
Welcome to the 4th annual gathering of the Wales Menopause Network!
This year’s All-Wales Menopause Network meeting invites healthcare professionals from across Wales to come together for a powerful and much-needed conversation.
“Menopause: The Unseen and The Unheard” will focus on the often invisible and overlooked aspects of menopause — from the gaps in research and education to the experiences of all women and people from marginalised, disabled, and trans communities. Too many go unsupported, unheard, or misunderstood during this life stage. It's time to change that.
Poster Presentations: We are excited to announce a poster presentation opportunity, inviting trainees, young researchers and health care professionals to submit a poster abstract highlighting case presentations, research and great work that is taking place in the field of Menopause and Midlife health.
Join doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals for a day of insight, connection, and action. The programme will include:
Don't delay... book today.... and be part of a community dedicated to empowering people, raising awareness, challenging assumptions, and amplifying the voices that need to be heard.
See you there!
POSTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:
This year we are excited to host a poster presentation session. We are now inviting abstract submissions of audit, research and case studies completed by Health Care Professionals in Wales.
All submissions must be via email to bmFkaWEgISBiaGFsIHwgd2FsZXMgISBuaHMgISB1aw== and YW15ICEgZ3JpZmZpdGhzMTQgfCB3YWxlcyAhIG5ocyAhIHVr using the following format:
Abstract Submission instructions:
Abstract to be typed in Arial font (10 point). Maximum word count 300.
The abstract must be as informative as possible and should include:
· A title that clearly indicates the nature of the study. (Capitalise the entire title)
· Abbreviations should be avoided in titles
· Authors’ names in full and institution must be shown. (The name of the presenting author must be indicated)
· State study objective clearly
· State methods used
· Summarise results
· State study conclusions
Ensure abstract does not contain spelling, grammatical errors as it will be reproduced exactly as submitted.
Prizes will be awarded for the best poster presentation.
An acknowledgement of the receipt of the abstract will be sent to the presenting author by e-mail upon email submission.
Closing date for abstract submission is 8th of September 2025 and you will be notified, if successful, via email by the 12th of September 2025.
Electronic copies to be submitted to
Mrs Nadia Hikary-Bhal at bmFkaWEgISBiaGFsIHwgd2FsZXMgISBuaHMgISB1aw== and Miss Amy Griffiths at: YW15ICEgZ3JpZmZpdGhzMTQgfCB3YWxlcyAhIG5ocyAhIHVr no later than the 8th of Septmber.
Late submissions will not be accepted.
Best Wishes and Good Luck
WMN 2025
University South Wales Conference Centre
Llantwit Road, Treforest, Pontypridd CF37 1DL
Info: Nadia is a Consultant Gynaecologist, Menopause Specialist and CTMUHB Menopause Clinical Service Lead. Her NHS base is the Royal Glamorgan Hospital where she has been a Consultant since 2014. Nadia is passionate about helping women navigate the most sensitive and challanging health issues they face during their lives such as Chidbirth Trauma, Bladder and Bowel incontinence and complex Menopause. In addition to her NHS role, Nadia is the Gynaecology Medical Advisory Committee representative at Nuffield Vale hospital, is co-director of Infiniti Healthcare , a dedicated womens health clinic (www.infinitihealthcare.com) and is founder and director of Beyond Healthcare Academy. On behalf of the organising committee, Nadia is delighted to welcome all to the 4th Wales Menopause Network Conference.
Info: Prior to being elected, Sarah graduated from the School of Journalism, Media & Communication at Cardiff University with a MA in Digital Media & Society and worked for the Data Justice Lab.
Her research focused on UK and international governments’ use of big data and algorithmic-design for public services, as well as AI in the workplace which is published in Transfer: European Journal of Labour and Research.
On 11 September 2024, Sarah was appointed Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing.
Info: Professor Martha Hickey
BA (Hons); MSc (Clin Psych); MBChB, FRCOG, FRANZCOG, MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne
Clinical Director of the Gynaecology Research Centre, The Women’s Hospital
Her clinical and research interests are in menopause, particularly menopause after cancer. She led the first Core Outcome Set for menopause (COMMA) and is now leading an international Priority Setting Partnership in menopause (MAPS).
She is the NICE guidelines topic expert on menopause. She has a strong commitment to evidence based medicine and is an Editor for the Cochrane Collaboration.
Info: Nikki is a Nurse Consultant in menopause at Aneurin Bevan Health University Health Board in South Wales. She is a recognised menopause specialist and is a menopause trainer with the BMS and Faculty for Sexual and Reproductive Medicine.
She has worked in women’s health for 25 years and is also a midwife. She is qualified in pelvic ultrasound and is an independent prescriber. She has previously sat on the RCN Womens health forum and is currently the secretary of the All-Wales Consultant Nurse and Midwife Group and sits on Aneurin Bevans Executive group for enhanced, advanced and consultant level practice.
Her special interest within menopause is occupational health and she runs menopause awareness sessions and self-referral clinics for health board staff. She is also passionate about improving menopausal care for women living with HIV and completed a Florence Nightingale Travel scholarship in 2019 examining best practice in HIV and menopause care.
Info: Professor Meena Upadhyaya OBE is an Emeritus Professor in the Division of Cancer and Genetics at Cardiff University. She also holds honorary positions as Professor of Practice at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and as Visiting Professor at the Institute of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.
A Fellow and Council Member of both the Royal College of Pathologists and the Learned Society of Wales.
From 2020 to 2024, she served as a Non-Executive Director on the Civil Service Board for the Welsh Government. She has authored more than 200 scientific papers, five books, and 30 book chapters. Her research has covered many conditions largely focusing on neurofibromatosis type1. Professor Upadhyaya is a passionate advocate for equity and inclusion. She is the founder and Chair of both the Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association (EMWWAA) and Ethnic Minority Women in Welsh Healthcare (EMWWH).
Info: Is Professor at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, and Honorary Professor at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation (MCHRI), Monash University, Australia.
Over the past two decades, she has established herself as an award-winning international authority on age and gender inequality in the workplace, with research spanning gender discrimination, health and wellbeing, and women’s leadership across the life course.
A pioneer in workplace menopause research, Kathleen has spent the past decade developing systems and cultures that support employees through this stage of life. She co-created the Menopause Information Pack Online (MIPO)—a free, open-access resource for line managers—and has worked with the Scottish Government to shape national employer guidelines on menopause and menstrual health. She has worked extensively with policymakers worldwide and remains a UK Delegate to the G20’s gender equality engagement group (W20).
Info: Rachel enjoys helping people lead more satisfying lives and exploring what it means to become an older, wiser woman. She lives in Perth, Scotland. In her day job at Rowan Consultancy, she works as a counsellor, trainer and coach.
Rachel started the Menopause Cafe movement in 2017, to increase awareness of the impact that menopause has on those experiencing it, their colleagues and families, and to reduce the shame around this experience.
The Menopause Café charity does this through:
* Menopause Cafés, which are pop-up events where people of all ages and genders meet to drink tea, eat cake and talk menopause, either online or in person. These discussion groups are hosted by lay volunteers, worldwide, with no speakers, just people with a common interest in menopause sharing experiences, questions, tips and stories.
*The Menopause Awareness Ribbon, launched in 2024, to provide a simple, visual way to show support for menopausal people.
Info: Dr Michelle Olver is a Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health based in the Aneurin Bevan Health Board. She leads the NHS Specialist Menopause clinic within the health board. She holds the advanced certificate in menopause care issued by the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health. She is also a recognised British Menopause Society specialist and trainer. Dr Olver holds an honorary lecturer title for Cardiff University (where she trained) and teaches the doctors of tomorrow, to manage the perimenopause and menopause. Her specialist area of interest is managing the menopause after cancer.
Info: Sue is an obesity physician, working in both the NHS and as weight loss lead for a large national Ph*rm*cy alongside her own weight loss clinic, the Freedom Clinic.
She tutors in obesity medicine via the University of South Wales, and she has previously been the Royal College of GPs obesity champion.
She is a graduate of the prestigious World Obesity Federation Preceptorship programme, where she received training from many of the leading obesity physicians and surgeons in the world, including at the Cleveland Clinic in the USA. She is a published author and international speaker on the subject of obesity medicine, and has appeared on UK television a few times, including BBC Panorama, discussing weight loss Medic*tion.
She is passionate about empowering people to help themselves through the careful use of weight loss Medic*tion alongside lifestyle advice.
Info: Dr Joseph Amagada is an Associate Specialist in Obstetrics & Gynaecology with the Cwm Taf Health Board. He graduated from the University of Lagos in 1988.
After an initial stint in General Practice, he got restless professionally and finally pitched tent in Obstetrics & Gynaecology in 1995 when he moved country to Jamaica. What drew his interest to lifestyle medicine was his personal struggles with his blood pressure. His moment of epiphany came when he became prediabetic. Dr Joe knew he had to do something different.
His interest in lifestyle medicine has since then become an obsession. Dr Joe as he is known, got his membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists in the year 2000 and later became a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists in 2013, a year best remembered for the democratization of smartphone apps, although Dr Joe still struggles with technology even now.
Info: Chrisandra Shufelt MD, MS, FACP, is Professor and Chair of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, and Associate Director of the Women's Health Research Center for the Mayo Clinic Enterprise. Dr. Shufelt is a women’s health internist with fellowship training in vascular biology and women's health.
She is a certified menopause practitioner and has several National and International leadership roles in the American College of Physicians, the European Menopause and Andropause Society, and the Menopause Society, formerly known as the North American Menopause Society, where she is the past-president (2022) of the Society and past-board of the trustees member.
Dr. Shufelt has over 200 publications in the area of women’s health and has also co-authored several scientific position statements on menopause and hormone therapy. She served as the lead member of the 2023 Nonhormone Therapy position statement for the Menopause Society.
Info: Dr Leila El-Dars is a Consultant Dermatologist at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Cwm Taf University Hospital Health Board.
She qualified from Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals Medical School in 1997 and worked as a junior doctor in the south of England and Perth, Australia before returning to start her dermatology career training at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, London.
She completed specialist Dermatology training in South Wales taking up her current post as Consultant Dermatologist in 2010.
She has had an interest in Vulval Dermatology since her early training and now leads the Vulval Dermatology clinic based at Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda.
She is a member of the British Society for the Study of Vulval Disease.
Info: Dr Lisa Thomas-Emrus is a General Practitioner and Lifestyle Medicine Physician with a specialist interest in women’s health, midlife wellbeing, and the integration of evidence-based lifestyle interventions in primary care.
She works in both NHS and private practice, supporting women to navigate the complexities of perimenopause and menopause with a holistic, patient-centred approach.
Lisa holds international certification in Lifestyle Medicine and has undertaken advanced training in sexual wellbeing and clinical sexology with Dr Patti Britton, a pioneer in the field, broadening her expertise in the intersection between intimacy, sexual health, and menopause.
Her clinical work is grounded in the belief that high-quality menopause care requires both medical expertise and attention to the wider determinants of health, including rest, nutrition, physical activity, relationships, and environment.
Alongside her clinical role, Lisa founded Revive Prescribed and DrLisaTE.com
Info: Dr Yvette Pyne (she/her) is a GP, gender clinician and clinical academic based in Bristol, working with the Welsh Gender Service. Her clinical work includes the intersection of menopause care and gender-affirming health, and her research work aims to enable earlier, and more inclusive recognition of perimenopause. Yvette's TEDx talk (available on YouTube) asks the question 'Does the Computer Know You Have Perimenopause?.
Dr Kate Nambiar began working in the NHS in 1999 and has specialized in sexual health since 2003. She is passionate about ensuring that good healthcare is a right and reality for everyone. Her wealth of experience includes working as a speciality doctor in sexual health and HIV at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust and doctoral researcher at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Kate currently works as a gender clinician and endocrinology specialist at the Welsh Gender Service in Cardiff.
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Tickets for 4th ALL WALES MENOPAUSE NETWORK CONFERENCE can be booked here.
| Ticket type | Ticket price |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS - IN PERSON | 90 GBP |
| NURSES & ALLIED HCPs - IN PERSON | 63 GBP |
| DOCTORS - VIRTUAL | 90 GBP |
| NURSES & ALLIED HCPs - VIRTUAL | 63 GBP |
