The Menopause Society Annual Meeting

Highlights include widespread lack of structured menopause education in primary care residency programs, sleep benefits of elinzanetant, and more.

Cochrane shares her own research findings on how clinician specialty shapes menopause care and highlights gaps in hormone therapy prescribing.

TMS: Harvard's Caroline Mitchell, MD, MPH, questions the direction of genitourinary syndrome research priorities and reflects on FDA's removal of HRT warnings.

Study author Daniel Jiang, MD, PhD, discusses data linking hormone therapy to increased autoimmune disease risk in postmenopausal women and clinical implications.

Harvard's Caroline Mitchell, MD, MPH, explains how common OTC products can worsen vulvovaginal symptoms and the importance of a targeted history in GSM care.

Donna Plecha, MD, discusses how AI-powered mammography risk prediction and polygenic risk scores will enable personalized breast cancer screening within the next decade.

Breast imaging expert, Donna Plecha, MD, provides a roadmap for primary care physicians to implement risk assessment tools and high-risk clinic referrals in their practice.

Access, cost, and clinician awareness remain significant barriers to implementing supplemental breast screening, according to Plecha.

Breast imaging expert Donna M. Plecha, MD, explains the FDA's dense breast notification requirement and when to recommend supplemental MRI screening.

Mitchell highlights hormone therapy prescribing for primary care: treatment algorithms, vaginal estrogen safety, and when progestins aren't needed.