Women’s Health Series: Menopause, Myths & Medicine

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Series: Women’s Hormonal Health Throughout Their Adult Healthspan
Session 2: Menopause, Myths & Medicine

Speaker: Gayle Frazetta, MD, FAAFP, CCD, C-ABHRT

Dr. Frazzetta is a board certified family practice physician and a fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice. She has additional training in bone health and osteoporosis, being a Certified Clinical Densitometrist. Her private practice does over 1700 DXA’s annually. She is also an expert in hormone therapy for men and women, having received additional expert certification training in this as well. She has given many local and national presentations. Dr. Frazzetta was awarded the Copic Insurance 2019 Humanitarian of the Year for the state of Colorado. She received this prestigious award for many years of advocacy within the local school district for sexuality education and concussion management of student athletes. As a multi-modality specialist, she is able to address patients’ health needs in a more comprehensive way and is dedicated to helping others improve their health and well-being using an evidence based approach.

Objectives: 

• Recognize the residual, unfounded fears from the Women’s Health Initiative Study that sex hormones are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer.
• Review the potential impact on quality of life for women with untreated menopausal symptoms.
  Identify and correct common misconceptions of testosterone therapy.
• Identify and treat women with vulvovaginal atrophy.
• Identify and treat women with urinary incontinence and nocturia.
• Discuss the importance of intimacy in relationships.
• Review differences between synthetic and bioidentical hormones and routes of replacement for different disease outcomes.
• Review the Timing Hypothesis.

CME: Application for CME credit has been filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending.