Dr. Ughanze is an OB-GYN with UT Physicians who says menopause management is her specialized focus. She still practices both obstetrics and gynecology, so she sees women from their teens through menopause and after. She also teaches as an assistant professor at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. She sees patients in person at the group's women's centers in Friendswood and southeast Houston. New patients can request an appointment online or by phone through the UT Physicians system, which bills insurance.
Dr. Canter opened Urogynecology Center NoVa in Reston in 2016, after more than twenty years in practice in Northern Virginia. She is board certified both in urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery and in obstetrics and gynecology, and the practice says she was one of the first surgeons in the country to hold both. The practice is built around bladder, bowel and pelvic floor problems, so she treats urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, fecal incontinence, prolapse and urinary retention. Treatment runs from bladder training and pessary fitting to in office bladder Botox, nerve stimulation and sling or prolapse surgery. The office also runs an Emsella chair, which a patient sits in fully clothed twice a week for three weeks. Her site does not describe hormone therapy or menopause symptom care, and its one hormone mention is low dose vaginal estrogen among the options listed for overactive bladder.
Claire Walker founded Candescent Health and Wellness in South Bend and runs it as a women's health practice for the Michiana area. She is a nurse midwife and says she went into midwifery to get patients taking an active role in their own healthcare. Menopause and perimenopause care sits alongside gynecology, sexual health, urinary incontinence treatment and medical weight loss, so one visit can cover more than one of those. Pelvic exams are done with trauma informed care, and consent is checked at each step of the exam. Her stance on hormones is open, and the practice says most patients are candidates for hormone replacement even with a personal or family history of cancer. The clinic runs a monthly menopause support group for patients and their partners, and appointments can be in person or by video.
Live Hearty is a small cash-style wellness clinic in Stuart that Dr. Libman started with a business partner who is a lawyer. Hormone therapy for menopause sits alongside IV therapy, medical weight loss and cosmetic injections. She is board certified in both internal medicine and emergency medicine and worked in local emergency rooms before opening the clinic. The site says she weighs each woman's risks first and aims for the safest form and dose, with regular monitoring after that. She suggests listing your symptoms, with the worst first, and bringing your history and medication list to the first visit. Visits are in person and by appointment only, and new patients start by sending a request through the site's form.
Dr. Waddell is one of three board certified obstetrician gynecologists at Montgomery Women's Health Associates, a long established obstetrics and gynecology group on Taylor Road in Montgomery. The practice publishes a hormonal and women's health service that covers menopause management, hormone replacement therapy, and osteoporosis evaluation and treatment. For menopause it treats hot flashes, night sweats, sleep disturbance and mood changes with individual plans, and it reviews medical history and symptoms before deciding whether hormone therapy is right for a patient, then monitors treatment closely. Surgery is done by the group itself and includes hysteroscopy, endometrial ablation, laparoscopic hysterectomy, robotic surgery and pelvic reconstructive surgery. A medically supervised weight loss program runs alongside the gynecology care with a staff nutrition coach who guides patients on lifestyle changes and weight loss medication options. One thing a reader should know is that Dr. Waddell is currently taking new patients only if they are pregnant, while her two physician partners take new patients generally.
Dr. Kim runs a small general gynecology office in Saginaw where menopause management sits alongside routine exams, contraception and gynecologic surgery. Her site says she handles every service herself, from pap smears to menopause treatment, so you see the doctor rather than being handed off. She also treats osteoporosis, from screening through to treatment. The office has in-house vaginal laser treatment for dryness, painful sex and leaking after menopause, mostly run by her nurse practitioner, who started out in urology. Visits are in person only and booked by phone. The office is closed on Fridays and keeps a short lunchtime slot for people who can't come in during the workday.
Dr. Killebrew is a senior partner and the president of Southern Crescent Women's HealthCare, a group practice with offices in Fayetteville, Newnan and Stockbridge. She has practised in the Southern Crescent since 1987, sees patients at the Fayetteville and Newnan offices, and both the practice and Piedmont list her as a gynecologist rather than an obstetrician. Her own bio is mostly about surgery, and she performed the first robotic hysterectomy at Piedmont Fayette Hospital in 2010 and holds the ABOG focused practice designation in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery. The practice treats menopause with hormone therapy, non-hormonal medication and MonaLisa Touch laser therapy for vaginal dryness, and it runs an onsite lab and bone density scanning in the office. She is the named physician behind Flourish, the practice's midlife program, whose Evolve track works on body composition, nutrition, strength and metabolic health, and she is a certified culinary medicine specialist. She also practises pediatric and adolescent gynecology and passed an ACOG focused practice exam in it.
Ratelle is a women's health nurse practitioner in the obstetrics and gynecology office of Montage Medical Group, the physician group owned by Montage Health in Monterey. The office covers gynecologic care at every age alongside full pregnancy and birth care, and it lists menopause symptom management among the services at that location. Her own bio says she treats sexual and reproductive health as central to overall health, and that she spends time on education so patients can decide for themselves. She moved to Monterey from Vermont in 2020. Care runs through the health system rather than a private office, so you book by calling the office or by requesting a visit in MyChart. New patients print and fill out a registration form plus a separate obstetrics and gynecology history packet before the first visit, or arrive fifteen minutes early to do it there.
Dr. Pekowski is a family medicine physician at the Baylor Scott & White Clinic in Marble Falls, where she sees patients from age five through older adulthood. Her profile names preventive care, chronic disease management, women's health and menopausal care as her professional interests, and she belongs to The Menopause Society. The clinic is a primary care office with no gynecologists on its roster, so a menopause conversation here happens inside a regular family medicine appointment. She offers video visits alongside office visits, and a new patient can book with her online. She also writes for the health system's blog, including a piece on bone density scanning and osteoporosis screening. No page names a specific hormone treatment she prescribes.
Courtview Gynecology is a three clinician practice in Gastonia where Dr. Hartwell works alongside two women's health nurse practitioners, and every provider and staff member is female. The practice stopped delivering babies in 2012 and dropped primary care in 2021, so it is gynecology only now, caring for patients from adolescence through menopause and beyond. Its own services list names menopause management as symptom treatment and hormone therapy, and Dr. Hartwell's stated areas of expertise are preventive medicine, family planning, contraceptive options, menopause management and minor in-office procedures. Most testing happens in the building, with mammography, ultrasound, bone density scanning and lab draws often done on the same day as the visit. A team of certified medical assistants gives advice by phone and portal, and two coordinators handle referrals out. Appointments are arranged by phone or through an online request form that the practice answers rather than a live calendar.
Dr. O'Shell is an obstetrician gynecologist at Associated Obstetrics and Gynecology, a seven clinician group with offices in Bloomfield Hills and Clarkston, and joined the practice in September 2020. The practice bio describes care across the whole span of a woman's life, from routine and high risk pregnancy through to midlife and menopause, and names hormone replacement therapy among the stated areas of expertise. Hormone replacement therapy is one of eleven services the group lists under its own What we offer heading, and the gynecology page sets out menopause management alongside osteoporosis diagnosis and bone density testing. Surgery is a real part of the work here, with training in minimally invasive gynecologic, pelvic and robotic technique and certification in da Vinci robotic surgery. The practice runs a blood test for vitamin D status in its own office and reports that half the patients it checks come back deficient. Residency was in obstetrics and gynecology at a hospital in Southfield, and the bio notes deep roots in the local community after growing up in Walled Lake.
Medford Women's Clinic is an OB/GYN group on State Street in Medford, with physicians and nurse practitioners working side by side. Kathryn Stringer joined in 2014 after close to a decade as a primary care provider, and she is a nurse-midwife as well as a family nurse practitioner. She sees women through perimenopause, menopause and the years after, and hormone therapy is one of the gynecology services the clinic lists. Her stated approach is that most health problems can be managed in more than one way, so she lays out the choices and lets a patient's own preferences and goals decide. She studied cultural anthropology before nursing, and she says she tries to model the physical and emotional self-care she asks of her patients. Care is in person, appointments are made by calling the office, and new patients bring a completed gynecology questionnaire to the first visit.
Giese has been an OB/GYN at Kaiser Permanente's Delta Fair Medical Offices in Antioch since she finished her residency in 2003. She works only in the outpatient clinic now and does outpatient gyn procedures, after years of labor and delivery and gynecologic surgery in the hospital. Menopause and midlife health is one of the topics she names as common in her practice, along with hormone therapy for menopause symptoms. Kaiser prescribes FDA-approved bioidentical estradiol and progesterone from its own pharmacies and advises against compounded hormone prescriptions, so that is the route to hormones here. She grew up in the East Bay and sees patients in Spanish, and she is board certified in lifestyle medicine on top of obstetrics and gynecology. She is also the physician site lead for the Delta Fair building, which means she works with every department in it.
Dr. Frisch is an endocrinologist in Ridgewood who treats perimenopause and menopause alongside thyroid, diabetes and weight problems. She is also board certified in obesity medicine, and before medical school she worked at Merck researching estrogen receptors. It is a small practice that books long visits, and patients can reach their doctor directly by phone and email. The first visit is in person, and some follow-ups can be done by video. She checks bone health as part of menopause care and treats osteoporosis when needed. She speaks Spanish and Hungarian.
Sweetwater OB/GYN Associates is a Sugar Land practice Dr. Blonder co-founded with Dr. Shannon Crowe in 2009, and the two are still its only physicians, working alongside six nurse practitioners. He is a BioTE certified practitioner and has his own hormone page on the practice site, so pellet therapy is his work and not only Dr. Crowe's. Hormone care starts with in-office blood work covering sex hormones, thyroid levels and a metabolic panel, and the pellets are placed in the office. For women who would rather not take hormones the practice offers Estrovera, a non-hormonal product for menopause symptoms. Dr. Blonder came up through surgery and still does minimally invasive gynecologic work, including incontinence and pelvic support procedures. A med spa called Sugar Land Hormones and Wellness runs inside the same office and shares the hormone program.
Gabrielle Grundy is one of nine physicians at MyOBGYN, a Las Vegas obstetrics and gynecology group with two offices where several providers rotate between the two. Her bio says she cares for women through all stages of life and names adolescence and perimenopause as her particular interests, which covers both ends of reproductive life. She grew up in a small town in Kentucky and went into the specialty after watching her own family members face reproductive health problems. Before Las Vegas she spent years doing locum work in rural parts of the country to cover physician shortages, then worked as an OB hospitalist. The practice files its menopause care under a service line it calls MyMenopause, and its condition pages describe hormone therapy, low-dose vaginal estrogen and non-hormonal options such as antidepressants for hot flashes. Surgery is done in house, so hysteroscopy, endometrial ablation and robotic hysterectomy do not need a referral out.
Dr. Fitz founded this very small consultation practice in December 2017 and works as a consultant rather than as a regular doctor. Patients are asked to keep their own primary care and full scope women's health provider, because the practice does not cover urgent care, obstetrics or surgery. The integrative and functional medicine first visit runs two hours, and patients submit a long health history and a three day food log beforehand. The stated preference is FDA approved estradiol patches and oral progesterone, with compounded formulas used only when a patient cannot tolerate a product or needs a dose or delivery method that is not made. Low dose topical testosterone gel or cream is prescribed for libido, and the practice says plainly that it will not use testosterone pellets because they push levels higher than is safe for women. Training was in integrative medicine under Andrew Weil in Arizona, and herbs and supplements are used alongside medicines, with an online dispensary for registered patients.
Banner Peak Health is a four physician concierge practice in Walnut Creek, and Klein is the one who carries the Menopause Society certification. Care runs on an annual membership that covers unlimited visits and direct access to your own doctor by cell phone at any hour. New members start with a phone call to the practice director, then an unhurried meeting with the physician they would see, then a baseline assessment that can run two hours. Writing about perimenopause, Klein says she rules out thyroid problems, IBS, SIBO and gastroparesis before she looks at hormones, because the symptom cluster gets missed for years while a woman is sent from one specialist to the next. For treatment she describes an estrogen patch with oral progesterone, sometimes a progesterone IUD for endometrial protection, and a small amount of testosterone when it helps. She spent ten years in internal medicine at John Muir Medical Center and left because that setting gave her no time to be present with patients.
Audubon Women's Medical Associates is an all women OB/GYN group in Buffalo's Northtowns, and Dr. Hoebel has practiced there since 1994. The group's gynecology services include menopausal evaluation and management, hormone replacement therapy and non-hormonal alternatives for menopausal symptoms. Dr. Hoebel's own listed interests are hysteroscopic procedures and adolescent and pediatric gynecology, and she is the physician the practice names for patients as young as seven. One of the group's nurse practitioners is also Menopause Society certified and is the clinician whose page describes offering testosterone therapy. Obstetric care is run as a group so patients see several physicians, and all surgery is performed at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital. Two independent therapists work on site and take their own appointments.
Durham Women's Clinic is a long established obstetrics and gynecology practice with offices in Durham and at Brier Creek in Raleigh. Its gynecology care runs from adolescence through menopause, and the practice lists menopause care with hormone replacement therapy among its services. Physicians, midwives and a physician assistant all see gynecology patients, and the practice delivers babies and operates at Duke Regional Hospital. It was founded in 1941 by Dr. Eleanor Easley, the first woman to earn a four year medical degree from Duke, and it was the first practice in North Carolina to bring midwives in house. Carlson appears among the providers on the team page but has no photo or bio of her own, so the site says nothing about her own interests or how she approaches hormones.
Laura Grant cofounded Women's Wellness Center in Columbia with her husband Mark Grant, also an OB-GYN, in 2007, after more than a decade of delivering babies. She stopped doing obstetrics and now sees women only for gynecology, hormone therapy and pelvic floor problems. The practice runs its hormone care almost entirely on compounded pellets inserted under the skin at the hip, and says plainly why it has moved away from pills, creams and injections. Patients on pellets come back every three or four months for a face to face review with their provider. Her other main interest is bladder and bowel control and pelvic pain, which she works up herself and then treats in the office with pelvic floor therapy rather than with surgery or long term drugs. She writes and signs her own patient handouts, including one arguing that hormone therapy is safe for women who have had breast cancer.
Deborah Ledesma is one of two nurse practitioners at a small family practice in Whitehouse, a short drive from Tyler. The clinic opened in 2024 and sees patients from age five through adulthood, with same day or next day visits and some Saturday mornings. Every appointment is booked for a full 30 minutes. Her own provider profile lists testosterone and hormone replacement among the care she gives, and her colleague at the same clinic does not list it. She spent 18 years in nursing before qualifying as a family nurse practitioner, and she describes her work as caring for whole families rather than single patients. The practice also runs a weight loss program with weekly weigh ins and prescription injections, plus walk in IV infusions.
Dr. Bianchi is an OB-GYN at the Marshfield Medical Center clinics in Iron Mountain, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Menopause care is one of the types of care her profile lists, next to pregnancy and general gynecology, so menopause visits sit inside a broad OB-GYN practice rather than a separate menopause clinic. Her bio says she manages menopausal symptoms and also treats abnormal uterine bleeding, sexual health concerns and pelvic organ prolapse. The women's health department she works in names hormone therapy and bone density screening as part of its menopause care. She describes her approach as listening to the concern, doing her best to find an explanation, and then offering evidence-based options. She trained in osteopathic medicine and did her residency in Michigan, and she is raising three children with her husband, a captain in the Air Force.
Dr. Gandhi is the only clinician at RenuGyn, a concierge gynecology practice she founded in Alpharetta. Her perimenopause and menopause care centers on bioidentical hormone replacement and testosterone supplementation, including pellets placed under the skin, with repeat blood work to follow hormone levels. She is a board certified urogynecologist, so bladder and pelvic care is a large part of the practice, including the Bulkamid injection for stress incontinence and the Emsella chair for pelvic floor strengthening. She also treats sexual pain conditions such as vaginismus and vulvodynia using targeted injections, and she performs laser and radiofrequency vaginal treatment for dryness, laxity and mild leaking. The practice adds obesity medicine with prescription weight loss medication and body composition testing, and it publishes membership options that bundle hormone care with quarterly lab work. Visits are longer than a standard appointment and patients are given direct access to Dr. Gandhi for urgent concerns.
