Katherine Sherif
Professor of Medicine Vice Chair, Department of Medicine Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Title: Hormone Therapy: Two Decades of Treating Menopausal Symptoms & Improving Metabolic Parameters
Biography
Biography: Katherine Sherif
Abstract
Despite a large body of data describing the health benefits of hormone therapy, hormone prescribing rates remain low. Clinicians continue to cling to the belief that hormones are dangerous. The metabolic benefits of hormones are unequivocal but the issue is clouded by conflicting messages from the medical community, conservative recommendations from international associations and the tendency to repeat what you’ve heard instead of reading for yourself. My clinical lecture will: 1. broadly review the effects of estradiol and progesterone on female physiology 2. describe the risks and benefits of hormone replacement 3. make recommendations to use hormone therapy for primary care physicians