Women’s Health Series: Perimenopause & PCOS

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Series: Women’s Hormonal Health Throughout Their Adult Healthspan
Session 1: Perimenopause & PCOS

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: 

• Identify when women are suffering from sex hormone imbalances prior to menopause.
• Be able to identify PCOS as the most common endocrinopathy of reproductive age women.
• Recognize the clinical manifestations, possible imaging studies and appropriate blood work to help identify PCOS.
• Identify the clinical manifestations of low testosterone and recognize which patients to investigate.
• Recognize the signs of depression that may be linked to low testosterone.
• Discuss the management of dysfunctional uterine bleeding.
• Understand the implications of off-label use of medications.

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