I’ve been a nurse practitioner for over ten years, with clinical experience spanning emergency medicine, cardiology, and primary care. That background has given me a broad, systems-level understanding of how chronic disease, acute illness, and preventive care intersect, and how often patients fall through the cracks when symptoms don’t fit neatly into one specialty.

 

Several years ago, while practicing primary care, I began to recognize a consistent gap in how perimenopause and menopause were being identified and treated. I was seeing patients with complex, overlapping symptoms, cardiovascular risk changes, metabolic shifts, mood concerns, and sleep disruption, yet the guidance available to both patients and clinicians was limited, inconsistent, or outdated. I realized that to provide better care, I needed deeper, more rigorous education in menopause medicine.

 

That recognition led me to pursue certification through The Menopause Society. Since then, menopause care has become a central focus of my clinical work, allowing me to integrate evidence-based hormone therapy, cardiovascular and metabolic risk assessment, and whole-person primary care. My goal is to bring clarity, nuance, and high-quality education to an area of medicine that has been historically under-taught, and to ensure patients receive care that is informed, individualized, and rooted in science rather than fear or dismissal.