Women's Health On Alert

 

W H O A  WOMEN’S HEALTH ON ALERT, INC. is proud to sponsor FREE TO THE PUBLIC

The Women's Hormonal Health Crisis

Panel Discussion & Reception

Saturday, February 3, 2007
The Wellesley College Club
Wellesley College Campus

For your reservation call: 617-964-4241
whoacontact@aol.com

Without knowledge there can be no morality. -- Mary Wollstonecraft

 

 

The Panel

Panel Topics

Location Maps

Come to get the answers:

Is it safe to take oral contraceptives more or less non-stop, to do away with periods?

What do we REALLY know about the risks and benefits of hormone replacement?

What options do we have right now for testosterone supplementation?

 

PANEL TOPICS:

  • Dr. Klaiber: A Critique of the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Study: The True Benefits and Risks of Hormone Therapy

  • Dr. Rako: The Risks of Menstrual Suppression; Testosterone Supplementation for Women: Current Options

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

9:30-10:00 A.M. Registration and coffee

10:00 - 11:30 A.M. Panel discussion and Q & A

Reservations:

617 964-4241

whoacontact@aol.com

 

 

LOCATION:

Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

For directions to The Wellesley College Club: http://www.wellesley.edu/Collegeclub/directions.html

Women's Health On Alert, Inc. is an educational non-profit corporation. 501(c)(3) status granted.

 

 THE PANEL:
Edward Klaiber, M.D. is a specialist in hormone replacement during menopause. His research has focused on the effects of hormones on the brain, and he has published more than sixty medical articles relating to hormonal influences on depression, cognition, and sexual function. Dr. Klaiber is the author of Hormones and the Mind.
Susan Rako, M.D. is founder of Women's Health On Alert and the author of The Blessing of the Curse: No More Periods? and The Hormone of Desire: The Truth About Testosterone, Sexuality, and Menopause . An advocate for women's health rights, Dr. Rako is also a Boston-based psychiatrist who has been in private practice for thirty years. Random House will publish her memoir, That's How the Light Gets In: Memoir of a Psychiatrist in November 2005.